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At 3:02 p.m. on Saturday, the NWS Wilmington NC issued a coastal flood advisory valid between 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. for Inland ...
As severe thunderstorms and rain hit much of the central part of the United States, flash flooding threatened parts of Texas and Oklahoma and areas along the Mississippi River.
Debris removal following Tropical Storm Helene needs to be done more carefully to not destroy high-priority habitat and ...
An accompanying map showed rain and/or thunderstorms is expected across most of the southeast this weekend, extending as far ...
The state already has set limits on the ability of local governments to put new restrictions on building in floodplains.
The City of Ithaca is preparing to adopt new federal flood maps that could reshape insurance requirements and building permits for properties across the city. The updated Flood Insurance Rate Maps ...
At its peak, the flood discharged about 1,000 times the water of the modern-day Amazon river. At least, that’s the thesis one of us put forward in a 2009 study of an underwater canyon excavated ...
The proposed law adopts FEMA’s new Flood Insurance Rate Maps, which go into effect June 18. Director of Planning Lisa Nicholas explained that adopting the law is necessary to maintain Ithaca ...
Flood maps help keep people safe and play a critical role in informing emergency response plans and guiding Indigenous community and municipal development decisions. In the past five years, flood ...
Fair Bluff was also awarded more than $2.4 million for flood solutions. It's not clear how those projects may be impacted by the cuts. Many of the projects in North Carolina involve communities hit ...
That information will be linked to sea level and aid modelers, the National Weather Service, and the Texas Water Development Board in developing more accurate flood maps and emergency response plans.
"It’s the flood and the landslide where there's that gap in coverage,” Dr. David C. Marlett, CPCU and IIANC Distinguished Professor of Insurance, said. When asked if North Carolina's insurance ...