Archive for the ‘ Flood ’ Category

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Gov. Chet Culver is reminding Iowa flood victims that time is running out to apply for emergency food aid. Monday is the deadline for Iowans in presidentially declared disaster …

Under homeowner policies, flood, overflow of streams and other bodies of water, tidal waters, waves, spray and a wide variety of other water-associated damages are excluded from any coverage whatsoever. Until 1968, virtually no flood

… been 10 days since the river retreated from the land but no one from the army or the Pakistani … single tent from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and food and medicine from Islamic charity …

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Thursday it will give Pakistan … The IMF is also holding talks with a delegation led by Pakistan’s Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Shaikh on reorganizing the terms of an …

Pakistan – Abdul Rehman and his family live under a tree next to a pile of rubble on a newly … They need everything,” said Ahmad Kamal, spokesman for Pakistan’s disaster management agency, who appealed to …

It’s been a month since torrential rains triggered the worst floods in Pakistan’s recent history. Nearly 20 million people are homeless or hungry, with one million people displaced in the past week alone. The official death toll is at …

Via the Daily Times, a report from the Associated Press of Pakistan: 60000 flood victims suffering from epidemics in Balochistan. Over 60000 flood survivors in five districts of eastern Balochistan were suffering from epidemics, …

The city of Norfolk has reopened its flood gates as Hurricane Earl makes a passing glance along Virginia’s coast. City spokesman Bob Batcher said Friday only a couple of streets have seen flooding in a city that …

Survivors of Pakistan’s floods were in the hearts and minds of thousands of people attending an annual pilgrimage to the National Marian Shrine in Mariamabad. Sermons, prayers and donations were all dedicated to flood survivors at the …

Common Council President Willie Hines saw two problems - people left homeless by the flood and a swath of foreclosed properties - and found a solution for both.