"If you get a flood wave rushing through, you get deposition of harmful chemicals. Afterwards, cows will eat the grass, and these chemicals can make their way into our milk and sometimes meat as well.

Most of the camps were built decades ago, before modern modeling and flood maps. Counties have little power to regulate ...

Texas camp owners, lawmakers debate youth camps in flood plains after July 4 tragedy A state lawmaker asked if campers should be staying overnight in a flood plain. The answer he got was interesting.

Many of the buildings at Camp La Junta, where kids were escaping into the rafters, are in a flood plain. At the same time, there are also different categories of flood plains with different risks.

Serious flooding swamped parts of England and snow forced three airports to close temporarily Tuesday as wet and icy weather that was expected to last another day combined to extend travel chaos that ...