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Extreme rainfall fueled by climate change has caused nearly $75 billion in flood damage in the U.S. in the past three decades, a new study shows.

All Riverfront Recapture parks in Connecticut are closed Sunday due to flooding. They say there are areas with up to 18 inches of water of flooding. The flooding comes after a storm with high winds and heavy rain moved through the state on Christmas. The storm brought 2-3+ inches of rain to areas of the state. Riverfront Recapture connects the…

2020 has been the busiest hurricane season on record, with 29 named storms. Meanwhile, the National Flood Insurance Program is over $20 billion in debt.

Louisiana residents are once again dodging overturned cars on the roads, trudging through knee-deep water to find their homes flooded and pledging to rebuild after Hurricane Delta blew through the besieged part of the state.

Rescuers in France and Italy were searching for victims and providing residents emergency assistance after devastating floods hit a mountainous region on both sides of the border, killing at least four people.

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner briefed the public on Tuesday after Tropical Storm Beta made landfall and brought torrential rain to Houston and the surrounding region.

Firefighters rescued a total of eight people from the parking lot and several more were evacuated from two business that were surrounded by floodwaters.

After bringing heavy rain and wind to Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, Isaias has strengthened into a Hurricane and is moving toward Florida.

Tropical Storm Isaias brought heavy rain, strong winds and flooding to Puerto Rico on Thursday. The storm is expected to arrive in Southern Florida on Saturday.

There are flooded roads in Bridgeport after strong thunderstorms swept through the state on Friday. The city’s Emergency Operation Center said there is a car stuck in the water at Third and Connecticut Avenue and also on Jennings Avenue. The viaduct at East Main Street and Louisiana Avenue is flooded. The viaduct at Broadbridge Road and Glenbrook Road is...

One day after Tropical Storm Cristobal flooded parts of Mobile, Ala., city crews rushed to rid streets and parking lots of sand.

Senior citizens are among the scores of displaced people staying in shelters after flooding overwhelmed two dams, submerged homes and washed out roads in Central Michigan.

Thousands were forced from their homes Tuesday after two Michigan dams failed after days of heavy rain. The flooding came after days of heavy rain saturated the Great Lakes region and Lake Erie overflowed its banks.

Flights were cancelled at Tweed New Haven Airport Tuesday after heavy rain and thunderstorms led to flooding inside the terminal and on the tarmac.

Residents in the Linbrook Road area of West Hartford said they hoped when the sewage backup situation resolved itself last fall, that would be the end of their worries.

Just north of Sarasota, Florida, Manatee County deputies rescue two manatees stranded in mud after water receded due to Hurricane Irma.

When he took the job 15 years ago, Horry County Emergency Manager Randy Webster figured his biggest disasters would be wind and surge rolling over his county’s beaches, South Carolina’s top tourist destination. Instead, his worries have shifted inland, where rivers overflowing their banks have caused two massive floods in three years. “We’re getting into this sort of unknown territory,”...

Una maestra de la escuela secundaria Praire Heights en Evans amarró a un estudiante con cinta adhesiva y no recibió cargos por este hecho que la ley protege en Colorado.

The second storm in a week brought record-breaking rainfall to parched Los Angeles on Thursday, jamming traffic on Southern California highways and prompting evacuations in wildfire-scarred areas.

Compo Road South in Westport has reopened after flooding closed part of it on Wednesday.