Some developers have pulled project plans that would've built housing in floodplains after Tropical Storm Helene battered ...

The hospital in Erwin, Tennessee was destroyed by floodwaters, but no one died. In hindsight, why was it built next to a river?

The fast-moving floodwaters had made earlier rescue attempts by ambulance and boat impossible. Trees, trailers, buildings, ...

The small hospital in the mountains was overwhelmed by floodwaters from Hurricane Helene, with staff plucked from its roof by ...

During Hurricane Helene, 70 people were rescued by helicopters from the roof of a Tennessee hospital. It's a cautionary tale for other hospitals, especially in the South.

For many, it’s as if the big storm has morphed into a thousand smaller ones. On one street in North Carolina, neighbors who ...

Dating back decades, though, flood maps published by FEMA put the entire ... which flows northward out of the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina straight through Erwin.

FEMA maintains flood maps that show how likely ... in places like Asheville, North Carolina, due to Hurricane Helene fell outside the FEMA flood zones," says Best. There is also evidence that ...

As house-demolishing weather becomes increasingly common, more Americans will find themselves without a safety net.

Long tainted by stormwater runoff and more recently massive sewer spills, a decade-long effort is working to heal the city's ...