Floodwaters were receding in parts of western Alaska battered by the worst storm in a half century, leaving behind debris flung by powerful Bering Sea waves into beaches and seaside communities. The remnants of Typhoon Merbok were weakening Sunday as …
The last community in the way of Hurricane Florence’s floodwaters as they slowly flow to the sea got some good news Wednesday – the predictions aren’t as dire as they once were. Officials originally expected flooding in the worst areas …
A rare late summer tornado smashed into a shopping district of Tulsa, Okla., early Sunday just hours after it was packed with people, sending more than two dozen people to hospitals including two with life-threatening injuries, many of them from …
Mountainsides stripped bare by a wildfire last year belched a damaging debris flow into a Southern California community during a downpour from a major Pacific storm early Friday. Rocks, boulders and mud swept downhill by runoff piled up to the …
Council Bluffs, Iowa, residents dropped off tons of tree and wet basement debris after the city offered to accept the items at no charge for a week following an intense storm. The Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil reports the city offered …
Four months after an ice storm paralyzed South Carolina, some Orangeburg residents say the state has yet to pick up storm debris from their neighborhood. The Times and Democrat of Orangeburg reports that residents along two streets that are maintained …
Agya Amma surveyed the pile of twisted wood and shredded thatch that was her home in this seaside Indian village. Like most everything else in Podampetta, it was all but swept away when Cyclone Phailin roared in off the Bay …
An Albuquerque, N.M., official says a storm that battered the city Friday night could end up costing the city $1 million. The rain and wind storm downed trees in parks and other areas of the city while causing tens of …
A massive pile of debris has clogged part of the Saginaw River following recent storms that brought flooding to Michigan, and officials are urging caution for recreational boaters including those going fishing. The collection of tree limbs, brush, marsh vegetation …
Photos and momentoes that were snatched up and blown hundreds of miles during tornados in the south of the United States two years ago are giving researchers new insight on how debris is carried by the storms and how it …