Flood Ready News Today

Vactor trucks and ditch crews are working daily to clear debris across the Mermaid City in preparation for the next rainfall.

Roughly 6-10% of Canadian homes already have a flood risk so high that insurers won’t come near them. Find out more.

Flood Ready Tennessee recently announced the launch of Protect Tennessee, a statewide effort to promote resilience against all natural hazards. Officials said the new coalition is built upon Flood Ready

Last week’s flooding left Luke Mulligan and his family stranded when the raging waters destroyed a town bridge that connected them to Route 2 in...

Weather related events seem to be increasing in Middle Tennessee, according to Krissy Hurley of the National Weather Service in Nashville…Throughout the entire state of Tennessee, there have been more weather-related problems…An organization called Flood Ready Tennessee, which is made up of local residents that include homeowners, politicians, business owners and non-profit leaders, is urging the state to put together a comprehensive “statewide plan” tha...

It has experienced more than 130 floods over the last 150 years but Lismore was left off a priority list to receive grants designed to improve its resilience to disasters such as the current flood crisis.

Guest Opinion

Rainstorms for some bring to mind the heavy sounds of water on metal roofs, mud puddles begging to be rippled by a booted footstep, and the quenching of an agricultural

Rainstorms for some bring to mind the heavy sounds of water on metal roofs, mud puddles begging to be rippled by a booted footstep, and the quenching of an agricultural

Premium Content Subscriber only THE current owners of the Book Warehouse in Lismores CBD purchased the business in the days after the 2017 flood. Not the usual time for someone to step into a new business with water still lapping at your door. Although staff followed the flood plan of boxing up books and moving them to the first floor, the flood waters were too fast and much of the stock was lost and shelving damaged. It took six weeks to re-open. Fast forward to 2020, and the Book Warehou...