Funding of $1.8 million for the completion of the Bayou Chene Flood Protection System in Louisiana has been approved by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Authority. St. Mary Levee District executive director Hillary Thibodeaux tells the Daily Review …
Residents without flood insurance in Louisiana’s Cameron Parish should buy coverage before the new Federal Emergency Management Agency flood maps become effective Nov. 16 so they can get the best premiums, a FEMA official says. Agency spokesman Robert Alvey tells …
Clark County commissioners are asking the state of Nevada for disaster relief funds in the aftermath of flash floods that killed two people and caused an estimated $2.6 million in damages to government property. The request that county leaders approved …
A federal appeals court reversed itself this week and threw out a judge’s landmark ruling that the Army Corps of Engineers was liable for billions of dollars in Hurricane Katrina flood damage that property owners blame on the corps’ maintenance …
Jessica Henderson’s Minot home had just been painstakingly gutted and remodeled, from the basement on up, when the flooding Souris River put its main floor under four feet of water last summer. When it came time to rebuild again, Henderson …
Flood insurance company Fidelity National Indemnity Insurance Co. is being renamed Wright National Flood Insurance Co. The name change must be approved by the Texas Department of Insurance. Wright National Flood is a member of The Wright Insurance Group, owned …
Thousands of flood insurance claims are being filed in the wake of Hurricane Isaac, a slow-moving storm that hammered several parishes in southern Louisiana with prolonged, drenching rains and tropical-storm force winds, leaving water damage in parishes that don’t typically …
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has gotten state permission to make rule changes that could lead to redevelopment in four downtown historic or commercial areas in the 100-year flood plain. Those areas are New Bohemia; Czech Village; the area directly across the …
Antonia Schreiber is taking no chances on the next big storm. The remnants of Hurricane Irene turned the 200-year-old building that housed her Catskill Mountains spa boutique into a muddy mess a year ago in Windham, N.Y. She managed to …
Floodwaters from Haw Creek cost Cummins Inc. an estimated $220 million dollars in property damage in 2008. The Indiana-based company is making an investment to make sure that never happens again. South of Haw Creek, near the intersection of State …
