Multiple buildings at Camp Mystic in Texas, one of the many areas impacted by the flood disaster over the 4th of July weekend ...

Flash floods can happen at any time, making them unpredictable and hard to prepare for. Even the name “flash flood” implies that they can appear out of nowhere and cause all kinds of damage.

Back-to-back flooding disasters in recent years — in Texas, New Mexico and Kentucky, among many others — have showed that ...

“All of the police command watch – all of the fire department command have this linked to their phones,” University City Fire ...

An NOAA map (below) shows the red zone stretch about 130 miles from its southernmost point at Cape Mendocino near Fortuna, ...