Hurricanes Harvey, Irma ... September 20th: Hurricane Maria strikes Puerto Rico. Witnesses say flood waters rose 6 feet in 30 minutes, leaving thousands without food, clean water, and electricity.

Texas is one of four states at an increased risk of seeing a direct hit from a hurricane or tropical storm with the coming ...

with emergency responders struggling to rescue people from rapidly flooding homes. SEE ALSO: Hurricane Harvey: A weather geek's live blog Officials report at least 1,000 people were rescued ...

about half of all claims made to FEMA in the three decades before the catastrophic downpour from 2017’s Hurricane Harvey came from properties outside the agency’s flood maps — a fact that ...

While this scene is from 2017, when Hurricane Harvey ripped through Texas and ... If you need more information, use the FEMA Flood Map Service Center to look up the address of your potential ...

Hurricane Harvey is not your ... a long-duration flood, surge and wind event. Why will this last for so many days? Harvey is going to stall simply because there will be nothing in the atmosphere ...

Hurricane Harvey and other storms have shown how vulnerable ... What ends up under water doesn’t always line up with flood maps created by FEMA, but the maps can be guidelines for residents ...

Weather forecasters often use terms like "100-year" or "500-year" floods. Here’s what those terms really mean and why these extreme events are happening more frequently.