Developers want to bring life back to a former Six Flags theme park at the edge of New Orleans, La., a tourist attraction long rusting away into an overgrown and ghostly spot of abandoned and vandalized amusement rides. In 2005, …
Mississippi officials say the damage from floods this month is the most widespread the state has had since Hurricane Katrina. Mississippi Emergency Management Agency Director Lee Smithson tells The Clarion-Ledger federal and state assessment teams have been on the ground …
As the Leaf River rose north of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 26-year-old Rebecca Bruce and her fiancé grabbed what they could and left the shed where they live. The water was more than 2 feet deep indoors when they left, she said. …
Western Tennessee and Kentucky are still facing flood threats as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Tennessee Valley Authority work to control water levels. The National Weather Service issued a flood advisory for the Cumberland River at Dover through …
A year that bounced from drought to flooding, back to drought and then to flooding again finished as the wettest year on record in Oklahoma. State Climatologist Gary McManus said Saturday that 2015 ended with a statewide average of 53.88 …
British Prime Minister David Cameron visited a swath of northwest England inundated by floods, as rescuers pulled people from waterlogged homes after record rainfall led to at least one death and swamped some 3,500 properties. The visit comes amid criticism …
South Carolina taxpayers will need to pay at least $114 million for the state’s share of damage caused by October’s massive flooding, which has a price tag topping $1 billion, the governor said Tuesday. Gov. Nikki Haley said the state …
Mike Borengasser said floodwaters can always find you. Borengasser, state climatologist with the Arkansas Natural Resources Commission, wasn’t trying to sow fear but, rather, knowledge about what the Federal Emergency Management Agency said is the nation’s most common natural disaster. …
An insurance group says spring storms across Texas caused more than $1.5 billion in property losses. April through June typically marks the stormy season for the state, but in March of this year multiple severe thunderstorms rolled in across the …
According to catastrophe risk modeling firm, RMS, persistent onshore winds coupled with monthly spring tides led to higher than predicted tides and coastal flooding across parts of South Carolina and Georgia this week causing localized property damage. Commenting on the …