Press release from the American Flood Coalition: Last week, a delegation of local leaders from Western North Carolina traveled to Kerr County, Texas, to exchange flood recovery lessons in the wake of ...

In the end, the flood of 2009 will go down as a victory for most jurisdictions. But in the process, as in most emergency situations, some things went right, some things went wrong and many leaders ...

Searchers looked through a car in the Big Thompson River three miles west of Loveland, Colo., in this Aug. 5, 1976 file photo. DAVE BURESH / AP A year’s worth of precipitation fell in a little over an ...

When historic floods tore through Texas this summer, claiming more than 130 lives, it was a grim reminder of what happens when flood protection falls short. But California’s flood protection system — ...

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ROANOKE COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ) - The Flood of 1985 caused catastrophic damage across Southwest Virginia, washing out bridges, roads and neighborhoods. Nearly 40 years later, Roanoke County officials are ...

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NIOTA, Ill. -- Fire chief Larry Granneman has spent the past week directing volunteers with sandbags and shovels and begging for outside help in a frantic effort to keep the Mississippi River from ...