Flood
Senate acts to extend flood insurance program
WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Thursday voted to extend the life of the National Flood Insurance Program for 60 days, giving lawmakers time to work on a long-term extension that would seek to restore fiscal solvency to the debt-ridden plan.
Date: 05/24/2012 | Nation & World
Spokane River reaches flood stage
SPOKANE -- The Spokane River reached flood stage early Friday morning, with minor flooding at low-lying areas near the river.The National Weather Service predicted the river will rise another 6 inches above its flood stage of 27 feet this weekend before it begins to fall Monday.
Date: 04/27/2012 | Northwest
Spokane River approaching flood stage
SPOKANE-- The Spokane Fire Department is urging people to stay out of the rising Spokane River.The river is running high and fast and water temperatures are very cold, making for dangerous conditions.
Date: 04/24/2012 | Northwest
Gawkers jump into storm chasers' ranks
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Given life-threatening wind, hail, lightning and flying debris, chasing tornadoes would seem harrowing enough.Now add to that what many agree is a new and growing danger on the edge of the violent vortexes: people -- hundreds and hundreds of regular people.
Date: 04/22/2012 | Nation & World
Most U.S. states are basking in warmth
WASHINGTON -- At least it's a dry heat.The federal government's spring weather forecast offers no respite from warmer weather, but the country should get a break from the spring flooding that's hit the last four years.
Date: 03/15/2012 | Nation & World
Rising sea levels threaten more of U.S.
WASHINGTON -- Nearly 4 million people across the United States, from Los Angeles to much of the East Coast, live in homes more prone to flooding from rising seas fueled by global warming, according to a new method of looking at flood risk published in two scientific papers.
Date: 03/15/2012 | Nation & World
Practiced in flood cleanup
Residents along the Pilchuck know the drill well
Date: 02/24/2012 | Local News
Heavy rains take toll
Mudslide wipes out one house; river swallows another (gallery)
Date: 02/22/2012 | Local News
Monroe, Stanwood, Arlington, other communities brace for flooding
EVERETT -- Emergency crews were gearing up Tuesday for a rush of water expected to flow into local rivers.
Date: 02/21/2012 | Local News
Flood watch issued for Snohomish County rivers
All the major rivers in Snohomish County are under a flood watch this week with heavy rain forecast through Wednesday in the Cascades, according...
Date: 02/20/2012 | Local News
Seattle asks residents to clear storm drains
SEATTLE -- As snow and ice melt on Seattle streets, the city is asking residents to clear storm drains of slush and debris to help prevent urban flooding.
Date: 01/20/2012 | Northwest
Ore. flooding claims lives of mom and son
SCIO, Ore. -- Raging waters from a flooded Oregon creek swept a carload of four people out of a grocery store parking lot and into the mouth of a canal culvert. Only two surfaced, a father and son. The body of a mother and her 1-year-old son who were in the car were later recovered.
Date: 01/19/2012 | Northwest
Amtrak suspends Seattle-Portland run
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Amtrak says it's suspending service between Portland and Seattle because of bad weather.The passenger rail agency said the Pacific Northwest storm has left trees and other debris on the tracks.
Date: 01/19/2012 | Northwest
Rain kills at least 8 in Brazil
JAMAPARA, Brazil -- Heavy rains caused mudslides that killed at least eight people in Rio de Janeiro state Monday, raising the number of dead in Rio and neighboring Minas Gerais state to 23 so far this year, civil defense officials said.
Date: 01/09/2012 | Nation & World
Death toll in Philippine floods jumps to nearly 1,500
MANILA, Philippines — The death toll from flash floods that swept away entire villages in the southern Philippines climbed to nearly 1,500 on Tuesday, as authorities widened their search for bodies.
Date: 12/26/2011 | Nation & World
Death toll in Philippine floods nears 1,000
MANILA, Philippines -- The death toll in devastating floods in the Philippines reached 957 after bodies swept to sea were retrieved, the Office of Civil Defense said Tuesday.
Date: 12/19/2011 | Nation & World
Philippine storm toll exceeds 650; 900 missing (video)
ILIGAN, Philippines — As a storm that killed more than 650 in the southern Philippines raged outside the store where she works, Amor Limbago worriedly called home to check on her parents, but their cellphones just kept ringing and later went dead.
Date: 12/17/2011 | Nation & World
U.S. had a dozen expensive weather disasters in 2011
HARTFORD, Conn. -- The United States had a dozen weather disasters that caused at least $1 billion in damages in 2011, the greatest frequency of severe weather that caused costly losses in more than 30 years of federal government tracking.
Date: 12/08/2011 | Nation & World
A solution to Lake Ballinger overflow
MOUNTLAKE TERRACE -- For years, people who live on Lake Ballinger have been sweating every rainstorm, wondering how close the water will come to their homes.Now, for the first time in many years, some action could be taken.
Date: 12/05/2011 | Local News
Strong winds in local forecast
EVERETT -- Strong winds are forecast for the area and minor flooding could occur along the Stillaguamish River near Arlington on Sunday.
Date: 11/26/2011 | Local News
Thanksgiving weather: Expect snow in the passes, wind and rain throughout the area
Thanksgiving Day is expected to be wet and windy, but Wednesday should have soaked up most of the nasty weather for the holiday weekend, according to the National Weather Service in Seattle.Traversing the Cascade Range could be treacherous, however.
Date: 11/23/2011 | Local News
Flooding devastates Italy's charming Cinque Terre
While hitchhiking in Switzerland 32 years ago, I met two American college girls. They were studying in Florence, and I asked them their favorite place in Italy. They surprised me by naming a place I had never heard of before: the Cinque Terre.
Date: 11/19/2011 | Life
A dear friend keeps watch over Darrington park
Some of my favorite memories happened in Darrington. Squire Creek County Park was the setting for Memorial Day and Fourth of July camp outs, since the mid-1980s, with all...
Date: 11/14/2011 | Local News
You're in flood country
A look at the big ones that have hit Snohomish County (gallery)
Date: 11/10/2011 | Need to Know
Death toll from Vietnam floods climbs to 100
HANOI, Vietnam -- Vietnamese officials say flooding has killed 100 people and left two others missing -- mostly in southern Vietnam, which is suffering its worst floods in a decade.
Date: 11/08/2011 | Nation & World
Death toll from Thailand floods rises past 500
BANGKOK -- The death toll from Thailand's worst floods in half a century climbed above 500, as advancing pools of polluted black water threatened Bangkok's subway system Monday and new evacuations were ordered in the sprawling capital.
Date: 11/06/2011 | Nation & World
Uncovering a stream
Terrace neighborhood hopes work fixes flooding problem
Date: 11/04/2011 | Local News
Thailand floods hit Honda
DETROIT -- Parts shortages from three months of catastrophic flooding in Thailand have forced Honda to cut U.S. and Canadian factory production by 50 percent for the second time this year, the automaker said Monday.
Date: 11/01/2011 | Business
Tempers flare on front lines of Thailand's floods
BANGKOK -- Tempers flared along a flood barrier protecting Thailand's capital from a record deluge surging into the city, with angry residents scuffling with security forces Monday in an attempt to force open a floodgate that left their homes swamped.
Date: 10/31/2011 | Nation & World
Waist-high water surges into parts of Bangkok; 356 dead
BANGKOK — Thailand's catastrophic floods may take up to six weeks to recede, the prime minister said Saturday, as residents living in Bangkok's outskirts sloshed through waist-high waters in some areas and the human toll from the crisis nationwide rose to 356 dead and more than 110,000...
Date: 10/22/2011 | Nation & World
Chinese military begins a charm offensive
BEIJING — China may make its neighbors nervous with its robust military build-up, but it's also increasingly using the army as part of its charm offensive abroad.
Date: 10/22/2011 | Nation & World
Governors at odds over Missouri River management
OMAHA, Neb. -- A meeting of Missouri River governors Monday revealed significant disagreement between Montana and states further downstream over flood control, even as federal officials warned the group that damage from this year's high water may make their states even more vulnerable next...
Date: 10/17/2011 | Nation & World
Variety of fixes aims to prevent a repeat of sewage- and stormwater-flooded basements in Everett
EVERETT -- Remember that spring deluge last year that dumped more than 2 million gallons of water in 19 minutes?Chances are the answer is "yes" if you live in the north end of Everett.
Date: 10/17/2011 | Local News
Flood barriers hold firm in shielding Bangkok, but 307 lost to floods
BANGKOK -- Thailand's capital was breathing easier Monday as barriers protecting Bangkok from the country's worst flooding in half a century held together and the government said floodwaters ravaging provinces just north of the capital had begun receding for the first time.
Date: 10/16/2011 | Nation & World
Al Gore: Climate change to blame for recent disasters
DETROIT -- Former Vice President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore was unbowed and unrepentant Thursday in blaming recent storms, droughts and wildfires on climate change.
Date: 10/14/2011 | Nation & World
Flood toll in Vietnam's Mekong Delta climbs to 34
HANOI, Vietnam -- Vietnam's government says the death toll from the worst seasonal flooding in more than a decade has climbed to 34 people, mostly children.
Date: 10/11/2011 | Nation & World
Rains, flooding kill dozens, maroon many in India
LUCKNOW, India -- Monsoon rains destroyed mud huts and flooded wide swaths of northern and eastern India, killing at least 48 people in recent days and leaving hundreds of thousands marooned by raging waters, officials said Monday.
Date: 09/26/2011 | Nation & World
Arlington bicyclist thanks all who helped him
Dick Cress of Arlington has many folks to thank.His bike was stolen July 30. We wrote about the theft Aug. 3, "Avid cyclist's wheels stolen."
Date: 09/13/2011 | Local News
Typhoon dumps record rain on Japan, killing 20
TOKYO — Typhoon Talas dumped record amounts of rain Sunday in western and central Japan, killing at least 20 people and stranding thousands more as it turned towns into lakes, washed away cars and triggered mudslides that obliterated houses. At least 50 people were missing, local media...
Date: 09/04/2011 | Nation & World
Lee lashes Gulf Coast, flood threat expands inland
NEW ORLEANS, La. — The center of Tropical Storm Lee made landfall Sunday on the Louisiana coast, bringing up to a foot of rain, spinoff tornadoes and fears of inland flash flooding to the Deep South and beyond.
Date: 09/04/2011 | Nation & World
Tropical Storm Lee dumps on the Gulf Coast
JEAN LAFITTE, La. — Bands of heavy rain and strong wind gusts from Tropical Storm Lee knocked out power to thousands in Louisiana and Mississippi on Saturday and prompted evacuations in bayou towns like Jean Lafitte, where water was lapping at the front doors of some homes.
Date: 09/03/2011 | Nation & World
ATVs are often reviled in Vermont, but popular this week
BETHEL, Vt. -- All-terrain vehicles, reviled by environmentalists and others for their noise and the erosion they can cause in sensitive forest ecosystems, are about to be banned from state land by Gov. Peter Shumlin's administration. But ATVs and their riders have come to the rescue this week as...
Date: 09/02/2011 | Nation & World
Irene's victims tired of waiting in the dark
WARWICK, R.I. — Cold showers. Meals in the dark. Refrigerators full of spoiled food. No TV. No Internet. Up and down the East Coast, patience is wearing thin among the hundreds of thousands of people still waiting for the electricity to come back on after Hurricane Irene knocked out the power...
Date: 09/02/2011 | Nation & World
White House requests $5.2 billion in new disaster funds
WASHINGTON — The White House told Congress on Thursday there's a need for more than $5 billion in additional disaster relief money, not even counting the billions that probably will be called for to help East Coast states hit by Hurricane Irene.
Date: 09/02/2011 | Nation & World
Floods in Nigeria leave 29 dead
LAGOS, Nigeria -- Nigerian emergency authorities say at least 29 people have died in weekend floods in two cities of Africa's most populous nation.
Date: 07/12/2011 | Nation & World
Director revisits post-Katrina New Orleans in 'Big Uneasy'
In describing his new documentary "The Big Uneasy," Harry Shearer has been careful to say that this is not another movie about Hurricane Katrina. That cataclysm is just the starting point.
Date: 07/08/2011 | Entertainment
Minot residents trickle back to flooded homes
MINOT, N.D. -- Dozens of residents returned to their waterlogged homes on Wednesday for the first time since the Souris River breached its banks and inundated much of Minot last month. Some cried, overwhelmed by the destruction, and others wasted no time trying salvage what was left of the homes,...
Date: 07/07/2011 | Nation & World
Flood surge raises fears of Mont. oil spill spread
LAUREL, Mont. -- Crews cleaning up an oil spill on the Yellowstone River faced difficult conditions Tuesday as the scenic waterway rose above flood stage and stoked fears that surging currents could push crude into undamaged areas and back channels vital to the river's prized fishery.
Date: 07/05/2011 | Nation & World
Snow on Fourth? Campers, hikers aren’t enthusiastic
A summer that looks a whole lot more like winter has travelers across the West scrambling to revise their Fourth of July itineraries — or at least their packing lists.
Date: 07/01/2011 | Nation & World
North Dakota flood waters begin to fall
MINOT, N.D. — The Souris River began a slow retreat from Minot on Sunday with no further flood damage in the city, but officials warned danger would remain for several days until the highest water passed.
Date: 06/26/2011 | Nation & World
North Dakota flood swamps more than 4,000 homes
MINOT, N.D. — The Souris River neared its crest Saturday in Minot, where city officials hoped to ride out the high water without losing more than the thousands of homes already damaged by flooding.
Date: 06/25/2011 | Nation & World
Water going over levees, N. Dakota governor says
MINOT, N.D. — North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple says the Souris River is flowing over most levees in Minot as it surges past a 130-year-old record level.
Date: 06/24/2011 | Nation & World
More flood evacuations in N. Dakota town
MINOT, N.D. -- Officials in North Dakota's fourth-largest city said Thursday they had done all they could to protect critical infrastructure from the rising Souris River as it headed toward a record flood.
Date: 06/24/2011 | Nation & World
Sirens sound as river tops levees in N. Dakota
MINOT, N.D. — Sirens wailed across Minot Wednesday as the swollen Souris River overtopped levees five hours ahead of a looming evacuation deadline, setting in motion what is expected to be the worst flooding to hit the North Dakota city in four decades.
Date: 06/22/2011 | Nation & World
Flood forces 11,000 from N. Dakota city
MINOT, N.D. -- About 11,000 Minot residents are being ordered to leave their homes even earlier than expected this week as the Souris River gets closer to swamping the North Dakota city with the worst flooding in four decades, officials said Tuesday.
Date: 06/22/2011 | Nation & World
Around the County
Everett: Spelling bee for adultsThe Carl Gipson Senior Center of Everett plans its second annual spelling bee for 1:30 p.m. June 30 at 3025 Lombard Ave.The bee will feature words related to food and its preparation. Prizes and refreshments are planned.
Date: 06/21/2011 | Local News
Most Missouri River levees holding up to flood's surge
HAMBURG, Iowa — The surge of water released from dams holding back the rain-swollen upper Missouri River reached deeper into Nebraska and Iowa on Thursday, headed swiftly toward Missouri and a soggy summer.
Date: 06/17/2011 | Nation & World
Missouri River levees break near Iowa-Mo. border
HAMBURG, Iowa -- The rising Missouri River has ruptured two levees in northwest Missouri, sending torrents of floodwaters over rural farmland toward the Iowa town of Hamburg and the Missouri resort town of Big Lake.Both levee failures happened Monday morning.
Date: 06/13/2011 | Nation & World
Montana town floods for second time in 2 weeks
ROUNDUP, Mont. — One of the hardest-hit towns in flood-soaked Montana took another blow Wednesday, as record flooding struck the small agricultural community for the second time in two weeks and forced residents to flee homes they had just started to clean up.
Date: 06/08/2011 | Nation & World
Army expects full breach of Missouri River levee
HAMBURG, Iowa -- Crews scrambled Monday to protect a southwest Iowa town from the swollen Missouri River, but local officials said it's unclear whether they'll be able to prevent the river from leaving the community under several feet of water for weeks.
Date: 06/06/2011 | Nation & World
Snow melts, dams fill, floods feared across West
GRAND COULEE DAM — The giant concrete dams of the Pacific Northwest are overflowing with water. Wyoming has deployed National Guard troops to pile up sandbags. A federal official compares the impending situation to a bucking bull ready to storm out of his chute.
Date: 06/02/2011 | Nation & World
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