FEMA Head David Richardson Steps Down From Role After Six Months, Criticism Over Texas Floods

Richardson spent “limited time in daily operations meetings and shrank away from his role,” according to The Washington Post.

Atmospheric river hits Southern California with risks of flash floods and deaths on stormy seas

An unusually strong storm system called an atmospheric river was dousing Southern California on Saturday, prompting flood ...

Texas woman whose home was lost in floods says ‘none’ of her neighbors had insurance — and she’s ‘paying for it.’ Why many felt priced out of coverage

For Cynthia Thomas, a longtime resident of the Hill Country and a survivor of the Guadalupe River flooding, the disaster hit ...
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Extreme floods are slashing global rice yields faster than expected

Scientists discovered that a week of full submergence is enough to kill most rice plants, making flooding a far greater ...
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California wildfire grows as storms threaten Los Angeles with floods

A fast-moving wildfire raged across thousands of acres of California prairie near the Nevada border today, while Los Angeles ...