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Nonprofits from WNC provide relief in Texas floods

Nonprofits from WNC provide relief in Texas floods

NORTH CAROLINA — As recovery continues in western North Carolina, a few area nonprofits are turning their attention to another community devastated by floods. BeLoved Asheville, an organization that has spent the past year helping its neighbors...

Intense Downpours are More Frequent, But Flooding Severity Remains Hard to Predict

Intense Downpours are More Frequent, But Flooding Severity Remains Hard to Predict

It’s not just Texas and North Carolina. Intense rain is falling more frequently in many areas of the U.S. — though where it occurs and whether it causes catastrophic flooding is largely a matter of chance, according to experts. More than 100...

4 deaths reported as Tropical Storm Chantal floods NC: See deadliest floods in NC, US history

4 deaths reported as Tropical Storm Chantal floods NC: See deadliest floods in NC, US history

Heavy rainfall in Texas and North Carolina caused significant flooding in early July 2025. Texas experienced historic flooding resulting in at least 104 deaths. Devastating floods in Texas caused over 100 deaths in early July. Days later, more...

Textiles Recycling Expo USA to Debut in April 2026

Textiles Recycling Expo USA to Debut in April 2026

Discover the Future of Textile Circularity AMI is set to introduce the US edition of its Textiles Recycling Expo at the Charlotte Convention Center, North Carolina, from April 29–30, 2026. The upcoming exhibition and conference aims to build on...

Lawmakers Tried to Weaken Climate Change Goals. Then Came Chantal.

Lawmakers Tried to Weaken Climate Change Goals. Then Came Chantal.

This story is republished as part of our partnership with Inside Climate News. Perched above Chapel Hill’s Bolin Creek Trail, 46,000 tons of coal ash appeared to be intact Monday afternoon, the mound’s slopes anchored by bushes and vines. But at...

Chantal Wreaks Havoc as State Lawmakers Try to Repeal an Ambitious Climate Change Goal

Chantal Wreaks Havoc as State Lawmakers Try to Repeal an Ambitious Climate Change Goal

This story originally published at Inside Climate News. Perched above the Bolin Creek Trail, 46,000 tons of coal ash appeared to be intact Monday afternoon, the mound’s slopes anchored by bushes and vines. But at the foot of the ash pile outside...

National Weather Service confirms 4 tornadoes formed in North Carolina during Tropical Storm Chantal

National Weather Service confirms 4 tornadoes formed in North Carolina during Tropical Storm Chantal

Click here for updates on this story ORLANDO, Florida (WXII) — National Weather Service confirms 4 tornadoes formed in North Carolina during Tropical Storm Chantal The National Weather Service has confirmed that four tornadoes touched down in...

Why Are Big Tech Oligarchs Getting Away With Playing God With Our Weather?

Why Are Big Tech Oligarchs Getting Away With Playing God With Our Weather?

When Will Blaming ‘Global Warming’ End & Blaming Big Tech Oligarchs Begin? If only some elected official, authority or bureaucrat had read and paid heed to Canada Free Press senior columnist Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh on June 11—one month before the...

Severe storms, flash flood threat target 85M+ along I-95 covering Washington, DC, Philadelphia and New York

Severe storms, flash flood threat target 85M+ along I-95 covering Washington, DC, Philadelphia and New York

Severe storms are expected to fire Tuesday afternoon across the mid-Atlantic and Northeast. Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and New York City are under the threat of severe weather. These storms will have periods of strong rain. A flood threat...

NC Credit Union: ‘EPA unlawfully froze funding’ from $7 billion Biden ‘climate grant’

NC Credit Union: ‘EPA unlawfully froze funding’ from $7 billion Biden ‘climate grant’

Lee Zeldin, Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, left, and Martin Eakes, founder, Self-Help Credit Union | X / Center for Responsbile LendingLee Zeldin, Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, left, and Martin Eakes,...

Severe storms, flash flood risk threaten NYC's Tuesday evening commute

Severe storms, flash flood risk threaten NYC's Tuesday evening commute

FOX 5 NY's Mike Woods has the details. NEW YORK CITY - A severe weather threat is once again on the table for the New York City area during the Tuesday evening commute, with periods of heavy rain, damaging wind gusts and thunderstorms all...

Amanda Balionis' NGO announces major initiative for shelters doing "life saving work" amid Texas flash flood

Amanda Balionis' NGO announces major initiative for shelters doing "life saving work" amid Texas flash flood

Amanda Balionis and her NGO recently shared an update through their social media accounts. Puppies and Golf announced that they will be actively making contributions towards shelters in the middle of the disastrous Texas flash floods. On July 4,...

Multiple road closures due to flooding in Halifax County Tuesday

Multiple road closures due to flooding in Halifax County Tuesday

HALIFAX CO., Va. – Multiple roads have been closed in Halifax County due to flooding in the area Tuesday, according to the Halifax Co. Sheriff’s Office. Videos have been shared from the bridge located at the Hyco River on Huell Matthews Hwy and...

Racist Leftists Celebrate the Death of White Kids Killed in Texas Flood

Racist Leftists Celebrate the Death of White Kids Killed in Texas Flood

DONATE At least 27 innocent little girls arrived at their summer camp in Texas last month, only to be washed away by a horrific flash flood in the middle of the night over the July 4 weekend. But according to a plethora of loud-mouthed Black Lives...

Camp Mystic Flood Stirs Up Weather Conspiracy Theories, Rumors

Camp Mystic Flood Stirs Up Weather Conspiracy Theories, Rumors

Last weekend, as first responders dug through mud and debris in search of those who the Guadalupe River swept away after it surged 26 feet in 45 minutes in the early morning hours of July 4, somber-faced officials gathered in beige rooms every few...

North Carolina DEQ schedules public hearing on former Alcoa site's water discharge permit

North Carolina DEQ schedules public hearing on former Alcoa site's water discharge permit

Sam Chan Director of Public Affairs | North Carolina Department of Environmental QualitySam Chan Director of Public Affairs | North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of...

North Carolina mules head to Texas to help with recovery efforts

North Carolina mules head to Texas to help with recovery efforts

Mountain Mule Packer Ranch uses mules to reach areas impassable with traditional vehicles. KERR COUNTY, Texas — In the aftermath of catastrophic flash flooding that swept through Kerr County in Texas Hill Country, a North Carolina-based disaster...

‘It’s so valuable:’ Virginia’s Operation Blessing gives hot meals to those affected by Texas flooding

‘It’s so valuable:’ Virginia’s Operation Blessing gives hot meals to those affected by Texas flooding

RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - New video is now emerging through the lens of Operation Blessing and it shows the extent of the destruction and devastation now facing central Texas. “You can feel it in the ambience, you know, in the air that the pain, the...

Cellphone restrictions, internet safety in new North Carolina law

Cellphone restrictions, internet safety in new North Carolina law

(The Center Square) – For some North Carolina students and school districts, there could be no change. For others, it’ll be “bye bye” to the cellphones. Access to cellphones and wireless devices is within new legislation that is law for the...

Flood Risk Increases, 2 Inches Of Rain Per Hour Possible In Eastern PA: Forecast

Flood Risk Increases, 2 Inches Of Rain Per Hour Possible In Eastern PA: Forecast

"Significant" flash floods are possible as a second day of severe rain, and severe heat, swamps the Philly region. Posted Tue, Jul 8, 2025 at 9:48 am ET An even more powerful wave of storms from the remnants of Tropical Storm Chantal will hit the...

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