Ohio River Flooding Kills 1
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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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Â· Fall in water levels grants reprieve to stricken areas  Â· Body of woman in river takes death toll to seven.
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GONAIVES -- The death toll from floods in Haiti has risen to more than 1,070 and could reach 2,000, Dieufort Deslorges of the government's civil protection agency said yesterday. Rescuers counted 1,013 bodies recovered from floodwaters, mud, and collapsed homes in Gonaives alone by last night. Another 58 bodies have been recovered elsewhere in Haiti's northwest province, Deslorges said. He ...
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At least four people were  killed by flash floods in north Texas on Monday and several  were reported to be missing as the waters began to recede and  weather forecasters saw a drying spell ahead.
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The death toll in Haiti from the flooding that has followed Tropical Storm Jeanne shot up to at least 1,500 yesterday, with hundreds of Haitians still missing as a thunderstorm
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"There's several feet of water. It's contaminated with sewage and everything. We can't wade through it because it's not safe"  A man tries to avoid getting wet as the banks of the River Aire in Leeds city centre, northern England, are broken by heavy rain fall, Monday June 25, 2007. via The Macon Telegraph
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By Tulsa World, Okla.  Jun. 24--A 5-year-old and an 8-year-old drowned Saturday evening in the Arkansas River near the Keystone Dam after being swept away by high water, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol said.   Cpl.
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Residents of parts of Ohio, Illinois and Indiana struggled on Saturday to recover from nearly a week of destructive thunderstorms while preparing for more floods from overburdened rivers and streams.
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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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ROSCOE, N.Y. - Severe thunderstorms caused flash flooding that washed out roads in the southern Catskill Mountains, and police said at least four people were reported missing Wednesday.  One death was blamed on the storms elsewhere in the state.
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Workers used dump trucks to empty more than 100 bodies into a 14-foot-deep hole on Wednesday &#151; the first mass grave for the more than 1,070 flood victims of Tropical Storm Jeanne. Bystanders shrieked, held their noses against the stench and demanded that officials collect bodies in waterlogged fields. The government late Wednesday said up to 1,250 people were still missing and that the death toll could rise to 2,000 people.
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By MARK WILSON, Courier & Press staff writer 464-7417 or wilsonm@courierpress.com  A hard one-inch rain across the Big Creek watershed, such as the area received Tuesday, can cause the creek and its many tributaries to nearly top its banks in a short period of time.
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GONAIVES, Haiti Sept. 20, 2004 - Raging floodwaters brought by Tropical Storm Jeanne killed at least 90 people in Haiti and left families huddled on rooftops as the storm pushed further out into the open seas, officials said.
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Floods in China killed more than 1,000  people this year, destroyed 650,000 village homes and caused  64.7 billion yuan ($7.82 billion) in direct economic losses,  the official Xinhua News agency said.
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The lower Ohio River has reopened to barge traffic after being shut for more than 12 hours due to a tow boat hitting a lock and a barge leaking a petrochemical into the waterway, the U.S. Coast Guard said on Thursday.
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A driver lost control of a bus in a heavy rainstorm in Peru's mountains and the vehicle plunged 165 feet into a river, killing 49 people on board and injuring 15, police said.
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FINDLAY, Ohio, Aug. 22 -- Firefighters and volunteers steered boats through streets awash in waist-deep water Wednesday, plucking residents and pets from porches as flooding that has swamped the Upper Midwest and Plains reached Ohio.