Floods in USA
Ask people to name the world’s largest river, and most will probably guess that it’s the Amazon, the Nile or the Mississippi. In fact, some of Earth’s largest rivers are…
The Oktibbeha County Lake Dam in eastern Mississippi is ‘imminent danger’ of failing, officials said on 14 January, 2020. Recent heavy rainfall and flooding has compromised the dam’s structure. Mississippi…
At least 11 people have died as a result of severe weather in the USA over the last few days, after a series of storms from 10 to 12 January…
Storms brought record rainfall to parts of Tennessee and Alabama from 29 December, causing flash flooding in which 2 people died. In Tennessee, several roads were closed in Williamson County,…
A new study by scientists from The Nature Conservancy (TNC), the University of Bristol and flood analytics company Fathom, seeks to answer an important question related to flooding in the…
Atmospheric rivers pose a $1 billion-a-year flood risk in the West, according to a new study. Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego and…
Heavy rain caused flash flooding in parts of southwest USA from 29 November, 2019. In a tragic incident, 2 children died and one is still missing after raging waters of…
NEW YORK, Nov 19 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The U.S. government’s oceans and waterways agency will provide $30 million to improve coastal resilience, officials said, aiming to reduce the impacts…
Storms brought high winds and heavy rains to northeastern states in the USA from 31 October, 2019. According to a statement by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s office on 01…
Native North Americans first arrived in Florida approximately 14,550 years ago. Evidence for these stone-tool-wielding, megafauna-hunting peoples can be found at the bottom of numerous limestone freshwater sinkholes in Florida’s…
Parts of New York and New Jersey saw coastal flooding after high tides combined with a storm off the north-east coast of the USA. Minor flooding was reported in parts…
Mary Scott Nabers, president and CEO of Strategic Partnerships Inc., a business development company specializing in government contracting and procurement consulting throughout the U.S. looks at opportunities for the private…
Streets were flooded and cars stranded after heavy rain in Arizona, USA, on 23 September 2019. Emergency personnel made at least 6 high water rescues in the East Valley in…
At least 2 people have died and hundreds rescued after Tropical Depression Imelda dumped further heavy rain in parts of southeast Texas, where Governor Greg Abbott has declared a state…
Texas has borne the brunt of Tropical Depression Imelda’s heavy rainfall and NASA estimated that rainfall with an algorithm that incorporates data from satellites and observations. By Thursday morning, September…
Torrential rain brought by Tropical Storm Imelda has triggered flooding in southeast Texas. The National Hurricane Center said Imelda made landfall near Freeport, Texas, with maximum sustained winds of 40…
