KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Several streets were flooded and blocked off from traffic in the Kansas City area on Tuesday after overnight rains pounded the region, prompting numerous rescues of stranded motorists and others who scrambled to safety atop rooftops.…
Boston-based catastrophe risk management firm Karen Clark & Company (KCC) has estimated insurers will pay about US$7 billion for damages in the United States as a result of Hurricane Matthew. The estimate is based on high resolution storm surge, inland…
Extensive precipitation-induced flooding in southern Louisiana, from west of Baton Rouge to Mississippi, has resulted in six deaths, tens of thousands of rescues and significant property damage, catastrophe modelling firm AIR Worldwide said in media advisory issued late Monday. AIR…
Texas, still drying out from one of its wettest springs on record, received additional heavy rainfall during the last two weeks, causing major flooding throughout the state, catastrophe modelling firm AIR Worldwide said on Monday. AIR Worldwide said in a…
Record rainfall prompted extensive flash flooding across parts of Texas on Monday, closing schools and city offices and overtopping levees, Impact Forecasting said in an Aon Cat Alert. Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield’s catastrophe model development team, said in the alert…