Floods

New research from the University of Vermont puts an eye-popping price tag on potential damage from flooding over the next century. “I think it is a wake-up call,” said Jesse Gourevitch, the lead author of the UVM study. The report says costs from flood damage in Vermont, purely in terms of money, could balloon to nearly $5.3 billion over the…

Some flooded cars may have the damage noted on their title, although not all do — which makes it important to carefully vet a used car’s history.

A massive fire tore through six homes in Jefferson Parish before crews eventually brought in pumps to fight the fire with water from the Bayou and from Ida’s floods.

A person recorded video of water rushing through an apartment’s living room door in New York City as remnants of Ida triggered flash floods across the area.

Record-shattering rainfall washed away homes and rural roads Saturday.

Days of heavy rainfall have pounded Rohingya refugee camps in southern Bangladesh, destroying dwellings and sending thousands of people to live with extended families or in communal shelters

Officials say landslides and flooding triggered by heavy monsoon rain have killed more than 100 people in western India

The front-runner to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel in Germany’s September election has apologized for a scene in which he was seen laughing in the background as the country’s president delivered a statement on the devastating floods in western Germany

Politicians and weather forecasters have been shocked at the ferocity of the precipitation that caused flash flooding that has claimed more than 150 lives this week in Western Europe

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has surveyed what she called a “surreal, ghostly” scene in a devastated village

Rescue workers labored to deal with damage laid bare by receding water as the death toll from disastrous flooding in Western Europe rose above 160

Authorities in Alabama say a suspected tornado spurred by Tropical Storm Claudette demolished or badly damaged at least 50 homes in a small town just north of the Florida border

The death toll from floods and mudslides following heavy rains in Sri Lanka has risen to 14 with another two missing

The number of deaths related to a deluge of rain that hit parts of Louisiana this week has risen to five, health officials said Thursday, and more rain is forecast for a region that has already seen flash flooding. The Vermilion Parish coroner ruled that the death of a 46-year-old man whose vehicle crashed into floodwaters was storm-related, the state Health...