"I really blew it this year," Jim Papacek said Thursday, standing in his driveway. With a wet fall and a snowy winter, the resident of Fargo's South River Road prepared for the impending spring flood ...

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 ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa — Don Guckert’s job is keeping the buildings on the University of Iowa’s charming campus up and running, and safe. His most important lessons came from the worst days of his career, in ...

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 ...

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The recent Guadalupe floods in Texas brought back horrible memories of the June 1972 Rapid City, South Dakota, flood, which took the lives of 238 people. I am incensed that news organizations did not ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lavonda Koons, 65, and her husband, Richard Koons, 64, pose for a portrait at their home in Mesquite, on Thursday, August 7, 2025.

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 ...

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 ...

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 — ...

KERR COUNTY Lavonda Koons gripped the back of the driver’s seat, watching as the Guadalupe River rose quickly around her stalled school bus. Through the rearview mirror, she saw a van behind them ...