Freezing rain and snow from Winter Storm Fisher has caused hundreds of accidents in the Southwest and Southern Plains, including a 21-vehicle pileup in Oklahoma and crashes that killed two in New Mexico.
Authorities say 30 to 40 vehicles were involved in a string of wrecks in heavy fog along an approximately 2-mile stretch of Interstate 37 in rural South Texas.
FEMA’s National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) has received flood claims on more than 800 homes that were damaged in the Oct. 16th flooding in central Texas. Thus far, payments for insured losses have exceeded $22 million and could exceed $30 million when all claims have been filed and paid.
The number of uninsured children in the United States has increased for the first time in nearly a decade, placing it at 3.9 million in 2017, according to a report Thursday from Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families.
Atrium Health, previously Carolinas HealthCare System, said on Tuesday data of about 2.65 million patients including addresses, dates of birth and social security numbers may have been compromised in a breach at its third-party provider AccuDoc Solutions.
A vehicle is reported stolen in Dallas on average every 54 minutes and the problem is getting worse. While overall property crime in North Texas is down, auto thefts in Dallas have increased more than 18 percent in the past year.
The insurance bill to repair homes and other structures damaged during the flooding of the Llano River and Highland Lakes last month is on track to hit nearly $24 million, according to federal statistics, a figure likely to grow as more claims come in.
Hurricane Willa, currently churning about 55 miles southwest of Las Islas Marias in Mexico, has weakened slightly to a Category 4 storm from Category 5, but is still packing a punch, the National Hurricane Center said Tuesday.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott added 36 counties to the state’s disaster declaration related to severe weather and flooding. Abbott made the announcement following a briefing from the Texas Division of Emergency Management and other state agencies.
A weather pattern stalled over Texas has produced the worst flash flooding since 1935 in Llano County in the central part of the state. The area got as much as 13.24 inches of rain in just the past two days.
As Hurricane Florence surged toward land last week, meteorologists and emergency agencies took notice. The storm was a Category 4 hurricane, the second-strongest type, and it was drawing a bead on the Carolina coast.
The first day of school was delayed a few days for most students in the Mercedes school district due to two of its campuses being highly damaged during this summer’s floods.
A Texas jury awarded damages of $242 million to a Dallas family after finding that defects in the family’s Lexus sedan caused injuries to their two children during a rear-end collision, the law firm representing the plaintiffs said on Friday.
