On Friday, California Governor Jerry Brown sought federal help from President Trump by asking the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to declare “a major disaster” in California in light of the damage done by recent storms.
The California Department of Water Resources has opened an emergency spillway at the Oroville Dam for the first time since it was constructed in 1968.
With three new storms hitting this week, the sections of California in severe drought have shrunk from 42.66 percent a year ago to just 2.13 percent on January 10.
Federal and state transportation officials are warning that San Francisco Airport’s rapidly deteriorating seawall has created the risk of runway flooding and sinkholes as passenger volume soars. San Francisco is legend for environmental hypocrisy, such as flooding the beautiful Hetch
Scammers and fraudulent relief efforts are directly targeting Louisiana’s flood victims, U.S. Attorney Walt Green announced during a National Center for Disaster Fraud press conference.
The Category 5 Hurricane Matthew continues moving across the Caribbean, and is scheduled to smash into the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by Tuesday evening.
North Korea discovered that one of the problems with spending most of your impoverished Communist dungeon state’s GDP on military hardware is that you don’t have much left over to handle emergencies, such as a flood that leaves 100,000 people homeless.
A new study alleges that human-induced global warming is a fundamental cause behind the 7.1 trillion gallons of torrential rainfall that a storm dumped on Louisiana in August, leading to a flooding disaster that killed at least 13 people and caused more than $1 billion in damage.
Despite being widely ignored by the national mainstream media and running short on donations and federal aid, some Louisiana flood victims will soon find refuge thanks to a small, Pennsylvania town.
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana – As Louisiana flood victims begin to pick up the scraps of what is left of their homes and communities in the wake of unprecedented flooding, federal agencies are already warning residents to be cautious of fraudulent services and other scams.
Breitbart News is in contact with a self-described “lifelong resident of Zachary, a Baton Rouge suburb, and a black man” who’s laid out the truth about economic conditions that Louisiana residents are facing.
Three women were arrested in Baton Rouge and charged with looting homes abandoned during the historic and disastrous flooding in South Louisiana, reports say.
“The best way to help Louisianans affected by these terrible floods is to make sure they have the resources they need today,” Hillary Clinton said in a statement released by her campaign. “I am committed to visiting communities affected by these floods, at a time when the presence of a political campaign will not disrupt the response, to discuss how we can and will rebuild.”
A man’s online video has gone viral after he questioned why the Black Lives Matter movement has done nothing to help flood relief efforts in Louisiana.
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana — The victims of the Louisiana flooding disaster, which is being deemed the country’s worst natural disaster since Hurricane Sandy, planned to wait-out the storms — but that was before floodwaters proved deadly.
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana — The mainstream media in Louisiana is finally calling out President Obama for vacationing at Martha’s Vineyard while the state experiences unprecedented flooding and cleanup.
A flood that has left 11 dead and 10,000 people in shelters has caused caskets to be displaced from their burial grounds, WPXI reports.
In a political cartoon causing outrage across Louisiana, the Times Picayune published a depiction of police officers handing black Americans their ‘last rites,’ a narrative that is being immediately debunked as first responders rescue thousands in the state amid historic flooding.
Three separate Louisiana law enforcement departments apprehended at least 14 suspects on looting charges — theft that authorities said took place during the deadly flooding over the weekend.
Despite thunderstorms calming down during Louisiana’s historic, catastrophic flooding, Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) says that even when the weather no longer appears dangerous in areas like Baton Rouge, the region remains as unsafe as ever.
A Baton Rouge, Louisiana area sheriff rescued a family — including an infant — from their home during the widespread flooding across the state while officials are now saying over 20,000 residents have been rescued in the crisis.
Torrential rain, flash flooding and tornadoes have caused chaos in parts of London and South East England as Britons head to the polls to vote in the EU referendum. Britons living in London and the South East were woken by
HOUSTON, Texas — Whataburger, a Texas favorite, is providing uniformed first responders in the flooded city a free meal at all Houston locations until midnight, April 23rd.
President Barack Obama was in Texas on Friday attending the annual SxSW event where he told millennials and others that government “does great things” because it “is delivering for everybody in this room.” His lecture was to those “who despise every level of government.” He did not tell the Texans who had their homes and businesses destroyed and damaged from severe weather and fires that he has denied them financial assistance.
One brave sports car owner in San Diego wasn’t going to let torrential rain and massive flooding caused by El Niño get in the way of a midday drive.
A second day of powerful storms unleashed by El Niño brought flooding, power outages and heavy snowfall to drought-ravaged California.
The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning for San Diego County, California on Wednesday afternoon.
Powerful rain storms brought on by El Niño battered California on Tuesday, causing headache-inducing road closures; mud and debris flows; flooding; and the opening of a half-dozen temporary shelters for the state’s homeless.
Like rail freight cars slowly moving down a track at increasing speed, California is about to suffer a “storm train” this week that may increase rainfall by over 400 percent over last year. The El Niño phenomenon is expected to
Despite El Niño generating three times the amount of snow in Mammoth in the first half of this month as it did for the entire month of November last year, California’s failure to build infrastructure means most rain will be lost to run-off and flooding.
SAN DIEGO, CA — Torrential rainfall and flooding struck San Diego amidst thunder and lightning on Tuesday night leaving cars stranded and thousands without power. Several cars were left stuck and some floating in floodwaters off highway 94 on Federal Blvd.,
Flooding, tornadoes, and severe damaging winds have hit the central and southeast portions of the Lone Star state. Two are dead and others are missing after being caught up in rushing flood waters. Tornadoes have touched down in three central Texas cities causing damage. Flash flood watch and flood advisory warnings have been issued for east central and eastern regions.
Hurricane Patricia was hailed as an historic and potentially catastrophic storm as it slammed into the Mexican Pacific coast with sustained winds of over 200 miles per hour. But despite the fears and warnings, the Category 5 hurricane made landfall the evening of October 23 just south of Puerto Vallarta without any loss of life or massive damage to critical infrastructure.
Video of last week’s flash flood and mudslides north of Los Angeles shows the first hand account of several occupants inside a vehicle caught up in a sweeping flow of sludge on October 15.
An elderly woman from South Carolina credits God and a floating red cross for keeping her and her grandson alive during swift flooding in Blythewood, South Carolina, last weekend.
The city of Santa Cruz planned an emergency breach of the San Lorenzo River Monday morning as river water flooded city streets and buildings, causing extensive damage, reports local NBC affiliate KSBW.
While climatologists keep an eye on what could be an historic El Niño on the West Coast this winter, another, less-well-known weather pattern currently developing in the Pacific Ocean could end California’s drought and then some–leaving the Golden State up to its ears in rainfall for up to a decade.
On Friday, congressional Democrats will attend the Naval Academy in Annapolis to discuss how the Academy plans to deal with flooding forecast for the future.
With Los Angeles receiving small amounts of rain on three separate days last week, red crabs washing ashore in Orange County, and three simultaneous typhoons in the western Pacific Ocean in early July, El Niño (“little boy”) is beginning to crank up
HOUSTON, Texas — Tropical Storm Bill entered South Texas with 60 mph winds and heavy rains on Tuesday morning. The storm has since been downgraded back to a tropical depression and continues marching northwards through Texas towards Oklahoma bring more flooding to residents along its pathway.
