Overall Green alert Flood for United States
in United States

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Flood United States can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID FL 1101225
Death: 3
Displaced: -
Countries: United States
From - To 22 Dec - 18 Jan

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Eastern USA, January 2022A storm brought strong winds and heavy snow to parts of eastern USA from 16 January 2022. 150,000 people were left without power and 1,400 flights grounded. Storm surge and heavy rain caused some flooding in coastal areas, in particular Milford, Connecticut, where homes were damaged. However, the significant impacts were caused by heavy snowfall and strong winds.Tue 18 Jan 2022FloodList provided by Copernicus GLOFAS
Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 142 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

MIL-OSI USA: Army Corps of Engineers to Invest Nearly $173 Million in ... 2022-01-21T21:11+0100.

US Senate News: Source: United States Senator for California – Dianne Feinstein Washington—Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) released the following statement on the Army Corps of Engineers’ plan to invest nearly $173 million of funding in
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MIL-OSI USA: Members Of N.M. Delegation Announce Over $60 Million For ... 2022-01-21T00:57+0100.

Source: United States House of Representatives – Representative Melanie Stansbury (N.M.-01) WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representatives Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.) and Teresa Leger
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Conti Federal Wins $6.49M Design-Build Contract for Texas Pump Station ... 2022-01-20T15:06+0100.

Conti Federal Services, a leading U.S. government construction and engineering firm specializing in complex critical infrastructure, disaster response and recovery, and environmental remediation projects, has been awarded a $6,498,887 desig
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How we used a tropical storm to calculate Tampa Bay’s growing flood ri ... 2022-01-20T11:42+0100.

. The agency forecasts storms as they approach to warn residents and prepare local governments. The Times asked the center to use its computer model to estimate Eta’s flooding in 2020, as well as the flooding if sea levels were higher. Tim
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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (36), (2), NASA (7), WMO (1), INFORM (2),