Floods in USA
The North Carolina Emergency Management officials confirmed yesterday that the number of deaths in the state attributed to Hurricane Matthew now stands at 26. Officials added that, as of early…
The governors of North and South Carolina confirmed further fatalities attributed to Hurricane Matthew yesterday. The number of deaths in the USA has now climbed to 34. Both states continue…
Days after Hurricane Matthew made its approach up the east coast, North Carolina is still feeling impacts from the storm as severe flooding has hit much of the central and…
State officials in North Carolina yesterday confirmed further weather-related fatalities since Hurricane Matthew brought torrential rain and strong winds to parts of the state last week. Fatalities were reported in…
The raging winds and torrential rain have eased and Hurricane Matthew has weakened to a post tropical cyclone and moved out to sea. However, the impacts of the storm are…
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Hurricanes could start flooding New York City’s coastline as often as every 20 years due to the effects of climate change on sea-level rise…
Hurricane Matthew has flooded parts of Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina over the last 3 days after bringing torrential rain and storm surges, as well as high winds.…
The US President has declared a federal disaster for the storms and floods that struck 8 counties of Iowa during late August 2016. The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced that…
Torrential downpours brought flooding to parts of South East Michigan, in particular the Detroit metro area, and neighbouring parts of Ontario, Canada, with the city of Windsor mostly affected. Around…
In the fourth article in the series “A New Approach to Storm-Water Management and Flood Reduction“, Ed Hill looks at Low Impact Development (LID) and ‘green infrastructure’ (GI) in North…
A new study by scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey and the Vienna University of Technology in Austria examined the recent history of floods in the United States for the…
As much as 7 inches (177 mm) of rain from 25 September caused flash flooding in parts of Central and South Texas. Schools have been closed in San Marcos and…
RMS, the global catastrophe risk management firm, estimates that the insured loss associated with wind and coastal flooding from Hurricane Hermine will not exceed $400 million. This figure includes property…
Flooding and landslides caused by several days of heavy rain in parts of the Upper Midwest have left two people dead in Wisconsin and prompted evacuations there and in parts…
Parts of North Carolina, Virginia and Maryland have recorded high levels of rainfall from remnants of Tropical Storm Julia over the last few days. The rain has been falling since…
This month’s extraordinary flooding in southeast Louisiana damaged some 40,000 homes, prompting more than 70,000 people to sign up for FEMA assistance. The proximate cause was a slow-moving storm system…
