Residents used plastic chairs to cross a flooded street outside their homes. Footage shows the neighbours alternately standing on two monobloc seats so they could move through the deluge with their ...

Only about 2% of residences in the 100 counties hit hardest by Hurricane Helene-related power outages were protected by flood insurance, according to an NBC News analysis of Census Bureau data ...

Thousands of cars are damaged or destroyed by floods every year, such as those ravaged by hurricanes or major rainfalls. Don’t assume that all those compromised vehicles end up in a junkyard.

The National Weather Service declared the city’s first-ever flash-flood emergency too late for us. But even if the notice had come earlier, we would not have been prepared for rainfall of such ...

Up until a few weeks ago, residents of western North Carolina likely gave little consideration to purchasing flood insurance. But last month Hurricane Helene flooded much of that area, as well as ...

Ward, like many other homeowners hit by last week's storm, did not have flood insurance, and she said her insurance company denied her husband's claim. It was a surprise to Ward, 61, who used to ...

Hundreds of thousands of people across parts of the Southeast will struggle to rebuild their homes after Hurricane Helene for one reason: Hardly anyone has flood insurance. In dozens of counties ...

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In Buncombe County, N.C., where an entire town disappeared beneath floodwaters, less than 1 percent of households had flood insurance. In Unicoi County, Tenn., where dozens of residents were ...

Flash floods are usually characterized by raging torrents that rip through riverbeds, urban streets, or mountain canyons, sweeping everything before them. They can occur within minutes or a few ...