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• Flood insurance rates are spiking for many, to account for climate risk 15 Oct 2021 09:04 Amy Tripp at her new home in Big Pine Key, Florida. She closed early to buy it before federal flood insurance rates rose by thousands of dollars. Her rate will still go up more slowly over time. Saul Martinez for NPR hide caption toggle caption Saul …
• 25% of all critical infrastructure in the US is at risk of failure due to flooding, new report finds 11 Oct 2021 06:05 Today, one-in-four pieces of all critical infrastructure in the US — including police and fire stations, hospitals, airports and wastewater treatment facilities — face substantial risk of being rendered inoperable by flooding, according to a new report …
• Riding Out Hurricane Ida On Louisiana’s Last Inhabited Barrier Island 09 Oct 2021 12:04 In the placid days leading up to Hurricane Ida, Charlie Walker, 55, was not afraid. The longtime resident of Grand Isle, the only inhabited barrier island on the Louisiana coast, was no stranger to storms. Since moving there in 2005, just weeks after …
• Bay County is getting $2.7 million more for Hurricane Michael recovery 09 Oct 2021 04:55 SOUTHPORT, Fla. (WMBB) — When Hurricane Michael hit Bay County on October 10th, 2018, Ron DeSantis was still on the campaign trail running for governor. When most people had forgotten about the catastrophic damages in the panhandle, DeSantis said he did …
• ‘The leading cause of Black land loss’: how the climate crisis is supercharging dispossession 06 Oct 2021 09:18 Margaret Alston doesn’t remember the night that Hurricane Matthew hit, but she remembers how afraid she was of the flooding that followed. The biggest hurricane to hit South Carolina since 1999, the storm caused massive inland flooding across large swaths …
• Taylorsville firefighter Wade Russell recently helped with disaster relief in Florida and Louisiana 05 Oct 2021 17:33 By Carl Fauver | [email protected] As our nation marked the 20th anniversary of 9/11 last month, the solemn date had particular significance for dozens of Utah-based emergency responders who travelled to New York’s “Ground Zero” in the days after that …
• Hurricane Ida shows how FEMA, other bureaucracy can slow down waterway clean-up after storms 03 Oct 2021 17:53 Hurricane Ida clogged streams, rivers and bayous with tree branches and other debris, which local leaders worry could make those waterways more dangerous and more likely to flood. In Tangipahoa Parish alone, officials are counting on $40 million in federal …
• Flood Insurance Program Expires Tomorrow Unless Congress Acts 29 Sep 2021 22:56 As Democrats and Republicans in Washington continue to haggle over government debt and spending, federal flood insurance is among the programs facing disruption. Without renewed funding, a government shutdown would begin after the end of the fiscal year …