Just because the flood insurance isn't required, doesn't mean you will not need it.
NEW ORLEANS -- Many of the thousands of homeowners in the Lower Ninth Ward, one of the hardest-hit areas in the city, lacked flood insurance because the neighborhood in theory was supposed to be relatively safe, local insurance agents and residents said.
Most of the area sits outside the "high-risk" flood districts designated on federal maps used for insurance, and so, unlike homeowners elsewhere in this low-lying city, most in the Lower Ninth Ward were not legally required by lenders to buy flood coverage.
It does make one wonder who in their right mind would decide houses built near the coast, below sea level, protected by levees, didn't have to purchase the insurance.
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I figured "a lie a day" would be revisiting the Clinton years....he was actually impeached for it. I'm disappointed.
Don't worry, you can delete this.
John, Don't delete this.
It is good for a laugh. It again proves that almost every republican can not make any statement with out saying;
But what about Clinton.
it is so damn funny and predictable
The homeowners decided not to buy the insurance. Do you know how many calls we used to get a day complaining about being in the flood zone? How many people wanted to be removed? How many times did I hear that it was too expensive! We just make the maps, we can't make anyone actually buy flood insurance or move from land that may eventually flood. We were required to take the levees into consideration. Don't blame the cartographers!!!!!
My mother in law lived in Pass Christian. She cancelled her flood insurance 3 months before Katrina. Her house was on high ground and never flooded.
A twenty foot storm surge didn't occur to her, as it probably wouldn't with most people.
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