Soggy neighborhoods under flash-flood warning in Mississippi
RIDGELAND, Miss. (AP) — Forecasters expected more heavy rains in parts of the flood-ravaged South on Tuesday, prolonging...
Storm-swollen rivers surge in UK, severe flood alerts issued
LONDON (AP) — Residents in central England and Wales piled up sandbags, readied water pumps and hoped for the best Tuesd...
Hundreds still flooded from homes in Mississippi capital
JACKSON, Miss. — The swollen Pearl River appeared to have crested Monday in Mississippi’s capital, but authorities warned the hundreds of evacuees in ...
Floods put Mississippi capital in ‘precarious situation’
JACKSON, Miss. — With the waters in the Pearl River continuing to rise in and around Mississippi's capital city and more rain on the way this week, th...
Wales bears the brunt as Storm Dennis hammers Britain
LONDON — Storm Dennis hammered Britain Sunday, bringing a month's worth of rain in just 48 hours to parts of South Wales, which bore the brunt of the ...
Mississippi braces for flooding amid cresting river
JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves declared a state of emergency Saturday amid predictions that a river running in the area around the stat...
UK faces another fierce storm; 2 found dead in rough seas
LONDON — Rescuers pulled two male bodies from rough seas off the coast of southeast England and military personnel mobilized to help build flood barri...
Torrential rains leave swollen rivers, downed trees in South
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Days of torrential rain across the Southeast left residents to deal with rising rivers, falling trees, weakened dams and mudslides ...
Flooding seems certain for some along the Missouri River
OMAHA, Neb. — Several states along the Missouri River face an elevated flood risk this spring because the soil remains wet and a significant amount of...
Rains flood roads, swell rivers across the Deep South
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Roads were flooded and rivers were rising across the Deep South on Tuesday after a day of heavy rains that once again threatened a ...
Deluge in Australia drenches fires and eases 3-year drought
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Drought, wildfires and now flooding have given Australia's weather an almost Biblical feel this year. The good news is that ...
Rescues by chopper, front loader as flood hits northwest US
PORTLAND, Ore. — Residents in the foothills of the towering Blue Mountains in rural northeast Oregon were plucked from their flooded homes by helicopt...
Rains cause flooding, evacuations in western Washington
ISSAQUAH, Wash. — Heavy rains sent a creek over a major roadway and into an apartment building east of Seattle on Thursday.
Storms sweep over Deep South with rain, wind, floods; 1 dead
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A powerful winter storm raked the Deep South on Thursday with high winds, rain and floods that killed one person and injured severa...
Photos of ‘king tides’ globally show risks of climate change
DEPOE BAY, Ore. — Tourists, nature lovers and amateur scientists are whipping out their cameras to document the effects of extreme high tides on shore...
Extreme weather has gardeners looking for resilient plants
Fiercer and more frequent natural disasters in recent years have many homeowners re-evaluating their landscaping. Many are restocking with trees and p...
4 Missouri River states unite to try to limit flooding
LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri are joining forces for a study that will look for ways the states can limit flooding along the Mis...
Storm Gloria kills 11 in Spain, causes wide coastal damage
MADRID — A calamitous storm has killed at least 11 people in Spain and left five others missing, as well as causing rivers to overflow their banks and...
Erosion, floods make some final resting places not so final
WEYBRIDGE, Vt. — When Revolutionary War soldier Josiah Clark was buried in a small Vermont cemetery near a river bank in 1835, it was supposed to be h...
Four dead as severe storm sweeps through southern US
BENTON, La. — Authorities say at least four people have died as severe storms sweep across parts of the U.S. South, bringing high winds and unrelentin...
A decade after Haitian earthquake, a young victim struggles
CANAAN, Haiti — Just before 5 p.m., Marie-Mislen Thomas’ house fell on top of her three children.
Mudslides, blackouts hamper search after Indonesia floods
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Mudslides and power blackouts hampered the search for people missing in massive floods in Indonesia's capital, where more than 60...
Indonesia’s flooded capital disinfected to fend off disease
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Soldiers and health workers sprayed Indonesia's capital with disinfectant on Sunday to fend off possible diseases spread by massi...
60 dead in landslides, flash floods in Indonesia’s capital
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Landslides and floods triggered by torrential downpours have left at least 60 people dead in and around Indonesia's capital, as r...
Indonesia capital floods leave 43 dead, 397,000 displaced
JAKARTA, Indonesia — The death toll from floods in Indonesia's capital rose to 43 of Friday as rescuers found more bodies amid receding floodwaters, d...
Venice flood damage to St. Mark’s Cathedral totals millions
VENICE, Italy — “Every stone is a treasure,’’ says the technical director of St. Mark’s Basilica’s vestry board, indicating the prized gold-leaf mosai...
Venice’s endurance symbolized in Royal Gardens re-opening
VENICE, Italy — Venice’s Royal Gardens were first envisioned by Napoleon, flourished under Austrian Empress Sissi and were finally turned over to the ...
Venice tide barriers pass another test, but skeptics remain
VENICE, Italy — Floated along by barge , one of the 10-ton barriers designed to relieve Venice’s perennial flooding looks like a giant plaything: an o...
Flood at famed Arizona waterfalls sends tourists scrambling
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — A popular tourist spot deep in a gorge off the Grand Canyon known for its blue-green waterfalls will make repairs after heavy flood...