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Recovery efforts were underway across the eastern U.S. after a powerful storm inundated communities with heavy rain and caused at least 13 deaths.
Kentucky’s latest flood disaster hit more than two years after catastrophic flooding left 43 people dead and devastated parts of the state. Water levels from the current flooding didn’t quite ...
At least one person is dead as a powerful storm batters the eastern half of the US with dangerous flooding, prompting hurried evacuations, widespread road closures and hazardous travel conditions ...
Declaration of an unlimited national emergency under threat from Nazi Germany. [15] Ended Truman: December 16, 1950 [9] September 14, 1978 Proclamation 2914 [16] Proclaiming the Existence of a National Emergency: Declared that the United States' "military, naval, air and civilian defenses" should be used to fight communism as part of the Korean ...
Costliest natural disaster in the United States prior to Hurricane Katrina. 1988 Wildfire: 2 $240 million Yellowstone fires of 1988: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming 793,880 acres (36% of the park) was burned in the fires started by lightning. 1985 Hurricane: 9 $1.3 billion Hurricane Elena: Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas ...
Tornado outbreaks were among the country’s costliest weather and climate disasters this year. As of Nov. 1, NOAA had tallied 24 weather disasters that caused at least $1 billion in damage apiece ...
At 1:20 am. CDT on August 22, the National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning for the Dallas metroplex. [89] Overnight on August 21, Dallas Fort Worth International Airport reported 3.01 inches (76.5 mm) of rainfall over a one-hour timeframe, setting the record for the most rainfall in a single hour ever for the airport. [90] By 8 am.
President Donald Trump approved the state's request for an emergency disaster declaration for the historic flooding, the governor said, adding that rising rivers and snow this week remain a threat.