Flooding Forces Evacuations in 3 States
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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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Flood warnings for several western and northern Ohio counties were posted early Wednesday as rain-swollen rivers and creeks reached their breaking point.
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Heavy rains caused flooding across parts  of eastern Australia on Saturday, forcing the evacuation of  hundreds of people as rural towns throughout the area were put  on flood alert.
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More than a dozen states face a super-soaking and Florida another storm watch this weekend as what&#39;s left of Hurricane Ivan exits and Tropical Storm Jeanne nears.
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Surging floodwaters forced scores of people to evacuate their homes in northeastern Australia on Monday, officials said, as farmers described heavy rains as a mixed blessing after years of drought.
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An oil slick adds to flood problems for thousands of people in the US states of Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas.
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Trapped residents in Boscastle are lifted to safety from the roof of their flooded home. Three people were missing yesterday after a flash flood hit a coastal tourist area in south-west England, sweeping dozens of cars into the sea and leaving hundreds ...
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Heavy rains and high winds belted parts of the state early Tuesday, causing flooding, forcing street closures and damaging houses and other structures.
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A threat of flooding forced residents to evacuate part of one southeastern Arizona community Sunday following the latest in a series of winter storms that have pushed streams out of their banks in the midst of a drought.
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Residents across England were mopping up Tuesday after flash floods killed three people and forced hundreds from their homes. Rainstorms that had battered the country eased, but authorities warned of more damage amid fears a leaking reservoir could burst.
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Residents and tourists in cars, trucks and campers clogged highways Thursday in the biggest evacuation ever ordered in Florida, fleeing inland as mighty Hurricane Frances threatened the state with its second battering in three weeks.
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Thousands of people in Malaysia's southern Johor state have been evacuated after heavy rain caused floods and triggered minor landslides which disrupted rail services.
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Three days of heavy rain and flash floods killed 57 people across several Indian states and forced more than 100,000 from their homes, officials said Saturday.
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FINDLAY, Ohio, Aug. 23 -- Water from the worst flood in nearly a century in this northwest Ohio city began receding Thursday, as it did elsewhere in the Midwest, allowing some of the evacuees of more than 1,000 homes to get a look at the soaked photo albums, boxes of clothes and furniture in their...
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More than 2.5 million people along the water were asked to evacuate Â the largest number in state history.
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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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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.