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The two strongest El Niños in the last 30 years — 1982 - 83 and 1997 - 98 — both caused widespread damage from flooding in California.

Not exact matches

In his six years as Mayor of Calgary, Naheed Nenshi has dealt with his fair share of damage control, from catastrophic flooding in 2013, wildfires this spring in the neighbouring communities, and the ongoing fallout from the province's recessioIn his six years as Mayor of Calgary, Naheed Nenshi has dealt with his fair share of damage control, from catastrophic flooding in 2013, wildfires this spring in the neighbouring communities, and the ongoing fallout from the province's recessioin 2013, wildfires this spring in the neighbouring communities, and the ongoing fallout from the province's recessioin the neighbouring communities, and the ongoing fallout from the province's recession.

The NFIP is already deeply in debt and likely will have to be bailed out again by U.S. taxpayers, as it was after Katrina, to cover the bill for flood damage claims from Harvey.

Unlike past historic blizzards that caused billions in damage from flooding and snowfall, this storm won't stick around.

Last year, a string of strong hurricanes that hit airlines» hubs cost airlines hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenue, but clearing runways from a snowstorm is a much faster process than recovering from the floods, power outages, structural damage to airports and other infrastructure damage that 2017's storms caused.

Instead, programs like the federal government's National Flood Insurance Program, which helps homeowners pay for damage from floods, ends up encouraging people to rebuild in areas that are likely to get flooded again.

Reducing Flood Risk to Residential Buildings that Can not be Elevated explains things that can be done to better protect a building from flood damage, and in some cases implementing these changes will reduce the cost of your flood insurance.

While many people will point to Hurricane Katrina and the 2005 damage done in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast as a model for what we may expect from Harvey, the 2016 floods in Baton Rouge may be more realistic.

Despite power being restored in most areas, schools reopening and life beginning to go on as usual, there are many homes in need of repair from flood damage — and entire blocks reduced to rubble - leaving a strong demand for the good will of others.

The park district is closing off a key section of the area for 30 to 60 days while it repairs damage caused in the last year from erosion and flooding.

According to a release from the NIC, the compulsory insurance will cover fire and allied perils like flood, earthquake, the collapse of buildings, storm and as well, legal liabilities of an owner or occupier of premises in respect of loss of or damage to property, bodily injury or death suffered by all users of the premises and third parties.

Vermont's congressional delegation says the state is going to get another $ 18.25 million to continue repairing roads damaged by flooding from Tropical Storm Irene and spring flooding in 2011.

Sandy resulted in $ 8.4 billion in payouts for flood damage from the federal insurance program, according to the Insurance Information Institute.

Elevated floodwaters at the Main Street Bridge in Whitesboro where a storm sewer line meets the creek damaged that pipe increasing the damage from flooding.

Homeowners and businesses whose properties sustained damage from Lake Ontario flooding are in line for a share of $ 55 million in grants.

Now South Carolina is asking for money from Washington to deal with devastating flood damage there, raising the question of whether New York's congressional delegation should respond in kind.

Local governments in counties bordering Lake Ontario will receive a total of $ 2.9 million from the state for last year's flood and erosion damage.

ICYMI, here's Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's appearance on Good Morning America from earlier this morning, in which he hands over an over sized $ 6,808 check to a flood - damaged school in Tioga County.

The damage from Tropical Storm Irene and the subsequent flooding has affected more than 100,000 acres of farmland in the state.

Upstate House members in a letter to President Obama last week indicated they expected the damage from the floods to meet the $ 267 million per capita threshold in order to trigger the aid.

Staten Island City Councilmen Vincent Ignizio and James Oddo took a trip to New Orleans in late January to try to learn from the city's recovery efforts from Hurricane Katrina, and said they were shocked to learn about some of the problems homeowners faced as they tried to raise their homes on pillars to prevent damage from future floods.

The legislation also provides up to $ 10 million to reimburse Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, and Allegany counties for damages sustained as a result of the severe storms and flooding in July 2015, and for Monroe County for damages resulting from the severe storm of March 2017.

As the clean - up continues in Tompkins County from flooding and storm damage over a week ago the cost

Greece has received around $ 575,000 for flood damage along a stretch of shoreline from Braddock Bay in the west to Round Pond, near the Rochester city line.

As the clean - up continues in Tompkins County from flooding and storm damage over a week ago the cost of the damage is being tallied.

The incumbents in the town board race are Peter J. Friedel of West Shokan and Donnie VanBuren of Boiceville, who last ran four years ago as the town was still reeling from major flood damage from tropical storms Irene and Lee, with preparedness and town response the key issues at the time.

U.S. Senator Charles Schumer is urging the Federal Emergency Management Agency to quickly approve any request for help from communities in Central New York and the Mohawk Valley, areas that also suffered flood damage this weekend.

Officials in the Greene County town of Ashland continue talks with FEMA over reimbursement for repairs to their water supply system; Hudson Valley Bureau Chief Dave Lucas has more along with an udate from FEMA regarding flood damage recovery throughout the Catskills.

A view of some of the damage caused by flood waters at a home along Hall Street on Sunday, July 2, 2017, in Hoosick Falls, N.Y. Rising waters came flowing in from behind the garage carrying debris into the driveway and yard.

New Paltz Central School District officials sent out word late tonight that they'd pre-emptively canceled classes in expectation of damage and flooding from Hurricane Sandy.

Though towns and villages have largely completed the storm debris cleanup, with help from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, many residents are still waiting on flood insurance inspectors kept busy with the devastation to the west, said Town Supervisor Scott Russell in early December, as Southold agreed to continue to allow residents to dispose of flood - damaged household belongings through early 2013.

In addition to permanently submerging coastal land, sea - level rise will make the flood damage from hurricanes and nor'easter s worse in the future, he saiIn addition to permanently submerging coastal land, sea - level rise will make the flood damage from hurricanes and nor'easter s worse in the future, he saiin the future, he said.

In a related field, property insurers say human development far outweighs the influences of climate change when it comes to rising damage from thunderstorms, flooding and hurricanes.

A «300 - foot gash in the hull» was often mentioned - just like the image we show in our issue from two weeks after the tragedy: Later calculations looked at the rate with which water flooded the ship during the two hours and 40 minutes it stayed afloat after the collision and showed that «the gash» in reality would have resulted in only slight damage to the hull, perhaps amounting a dozen square meters in total.

Colorado's floods have killed at least eight people and damaged some 18,000 homes — will the region also suffer a lingering legacy of pollution from fracking operations that were inundated in the disaster?

And if the walls break or overflow, the subsequent damage will just be greater,» reports social geographer Dr. Christian Kuhlicke from UFZ, who analysed the consequences of the Mulde flooding in Eilenburg and Grimma.

Almost a year after Hurricane Sandy, parts of New York and New Jersey are still recovering from billions of dollars in flood damage.

Rising costs from flood damage are due to several factors such as changes in climate, land use, population and wealth.

New research predicts that coastal regions may face massive increases in damages from storm surge flooding over the course of the 21st century.

An analysis of flood claims in several southeast Houston suburbs from 1999 - 2009 found that the Federal Emergency Management Agency's 100 - year flood plain maps — the tool that U.S. officials use to determine both flood risk and insurance premiums — failed to capture 75 percent of flood damages from five serious floods, none of which reached the threshold of a 100 - year event.

This data will help determine damage from the surge and improve models of flooding in the future, which could help provide a better picture of where future storm waters will go and who needs to be evacuated ahead of hurricanes.

Fourteen extreme weather and climate events in 2011 — from the Joplin tornado to hurricane flooding and blizzards — each caused more than $ 1 billion in damages.

More than 5,000 people have been evacuated from flood - damaged homes in northern Gaza and at least one person killed in what the United Nations called «a disaster area».

Warming temperatures and high precipitation levels contribute to destructive wildfires, extensive property damage and costly flooding, as was recently seen in northern California and in the aftermath of the rain and resulting flooding from Hurricane Harvey in Houston.

California Flooding: $ 1.5 Billion When: Feb. 8 to 22, 2017 Deaths: 5 The damage: Heavy rainfall — and the subsequent high water, fallen trees, avalanches mudslides and sinkholes — caused severe property damage in Northern and Central California from.

The report — placing global flood damage at $ 6 billion annually from 2005 figures — projected that flooding worldwide will cost $ 52 billion in socio - economic change alone.

Then the task force followed with a dozen major recommendations, some of which would order nuclear plant operators to strengthen defenses against extreme flooding or earthquakes when necessary and to harden vents that would carry away explosive hydrogen gas from damaged reactor cores in the two types of reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.

Mexico suffered its worst floods on record in mid-September when tropical storms Manuel and Ingrid converged from the Pacific and the Gulf of Mexico, killing more than 150 people and causing damage estimated at around $ 6 billion.

The number of heavy precipitation events will continue to increase in the assessment area, and impacts from flooding and soil erosion may also become more damaging.

Although torrential rainfall has inundated the Southeast region this spring, there is something you can do in your own backyard to help prevent damage from flooding and runoff.