Flooding

In reflecting on Sandy, will lessons from the 1993 U.S. floods finally resonate?

Torrential rains in northern Colorado in mid-September created viscous flash floods that tore through mountain towns. Flood researcher Robert Brakenridge was among those stranded in Lyons, Colo.

Images from Lyons, Colo., a mountain town temporarily cut off from the world during flooding in September 2013. The flooding left the town unlivable for the time being.

It's a race against Mother Nature to reopen major travel routes in time for winter tourism.

Nebraska residents are bracing for the river surge that began approaching the state border from Colorado at midnight Tuesday (Sept. 17).

Contrary to suggestions by some Internet users, scientists say that Colorado's cloud seeding program cannot feasibly be to blame for the recent flooding in the state.

Torrential rains fell in the area of Boulder and Denver in Colorado in September 2013, causing some of the worst flooding the area has ever seen.

Massive flooding in Colorado has killed at least three people and been declared a 100-year-flood. But what does the term mean? And why has there been so much rain?