Waters rise again in flood-torn Ohio
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Shandale Collins spent the past five months renovating his home after floodwaters destroyed nearly everything. Now he's wondering whether he'll have to do it all over again.
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LISBON, Ohio - Flood waters rushed through rural northeast Ohio on Saturday, ripping houses from their foundations and tearing a 65-foot deep crater into a road, authorities said.    A couple was killed in a crash on a rain-drenched highway, while a man whose home was carried off was found unharmed in a tree, authorities said...
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Emergency workers rescued hundreds of trapped people Monday as water swallowed swaths of central England in the worst flooding to hit the country for 60 years. Officials said some rivers were still rising, with the western section of the rain-swollen River Thames on the verge of bursting its banks.
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Flooding on the Ohio River damaged hundreds of homes and businesses Friday, a soggy calling card left by the winter storm that had brought miserable conditions across much of the central and northeastern United States.
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Firefighters battle to rescue dozens of residents by boat after they became stranded by flood waters.
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WHEELING, W.Va. - Hundreds of people evacuated their homes Sunday in parts of Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania as rivers and small streams were swollen beyond their banks by the torrential rain dumped by remnants of Hurricane Ivan...
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Returning residents who had evacuated their home this week kept watch Saturday night on the Brazos River, which officials expected to swell again on Sunday after opening another flood gate at a nearby lake.
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The Ohio River, fed by flooded feeder rivers, has flooded parts of West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana since heavy rain fell last week on ground already saturated by melted snow from a storm before Christmas.
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Flooding prompted evacuation orders Friday in the same neighborhood for the second time in a little more than a month, the mayor's office said.
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Many parts of Scotland are on flood alert following another night of severe high winds and heavy rain.
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By Jim Woods, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Sep. 10--Central Ohio suburban residents could see their water and sewer rates increase by 83 percent or more by 2010, according to a study by the city of Reynoldsburg.
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With a dozen people dead from weekend flooding in the Midwest and South, residents were busy shoveling mud from homes and businesses that were inundated with water.
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Ohio residents removed piles of waterlogged carpet, couches and upended refrigerators from their homes Sunday as they began the cleanup from recent flooding that Gov. Ted Strickland called "devastating."
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By Spencer Hunt, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Jun. 25--Bill Conklin has no trouble predicting Columbus' next drinking-water alert.   All that's needed, he said, is a lot of rain and fertilized farm fields.
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By Rindi White, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Sep. 6--WASILLA -- When heavy rains caused rivers and creeks to flood Aug. 18 and 19, the American Red Cross responded with more help than flood victims needed, Red Cross officials said.
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By Christian Hill, The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  Mar. 3--As the water level rose in Hicks Lake during torrential rains this winter, so did nearby homeowners' fears of flooding.
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The stench of fuel fumes and rotting garbage wafted though soaked streets Wednesday and residents dragged out dripping bedding, carpets and clothing as flood waters receded from a disaster that has killed at least 50 people.