Floods

A powerful storm with straight-line winds and possible tornadoes tore roofs off factories, ripped away storefronts and destroyed homes across Indiana, Ohio and into Pennsylvania, and on Monday, the National Weather Service planned to survey some of the damage. Scuba divers found the bodies of two men inside a home’s flooded basement where they were […]

HOUSTON (AP) — Homeowners dragged soggy carpet to the curb and mopped up coffee-colored muck Wednesday after a barrage of storms and floods in Texas and Oklahoma left at least 21 people dead and 11 others missing. More rain fell on the hard-hit Houston area, temporarily complicating the cleanup a day after a downpour of […]

HOUSTON (AP) — Floodwaters deepened across much of Texas on Tuesday as storms dumped almost a foot more of rain on the Houston area, stranding hundreds of motorists and inundating the famously congested highways that serve the nation’s fourth-largest city. Meanwhile, the search went on for about a dozen people who were still missing, including […]

VILONIA, Ark. (AP) — By air and on foot, President Barack Obama was getting an up close and personal look Wednesday at Arkansas communities devastated by recent deadly tornadoes during a quick visit with political implications for the state. In his first visit here as president, Obama also planned to meet with grieving families that […]

ESTES PARK, Colo. (AP) — As Colorado mountain towns cut off for days by massive flooding slowly reopened, shopkeepers in this gateway to majestic Rocky Mountain National Park worked to both clean up and remove salvageable goods from ravaged businesses for fear the swollen Big Thompson River would rise again. “We have limited time to […]

CHICAGO (AP) — Volunteers worked into the night to stack sandbags against rising Midwest floodwaters and evacuate people in its path — or rescue those already under water — after a powerful spring storm system unleashed downpours from Oklahoma to Michigan. Rivers across Illinois, Iowa and Missouri was expected to rise for several days as […]

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Sites where levee failures led to the catastrophic flooding after Hurricane Katrina would join Civil War battlefields and Mount Rushmore on a federal list of the nation’s historic icons if an activist has her way, but legal foot-dragging by the agency that many blame for the flooding is slowing the effort. […]

The number of natural disasters this year got me thinking about what I should do to be prepared. What are some of the things I need to do financially? BILLY, Knoxville, TN Billy is asking a timely question as we observe the 10-year anniversary of 9/11 and move forward after Hurricane Irene, Tropical Storm Lee […]