FEMA: Best Practice - Flood Insurance Points to Brighter Future, Fosters New Plans
November 22, 2019
November 22, 2019
AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 22 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency issued the following news release:
Maddie and Charles Peddycoart know more about the costs associated with flood recovery than most. In the 19 years they've lived in their home in Hamshire, TX -- about 60 miles east of Houston and 27 miles southwest of Beaumont -- it has been flooded by storms four times: Hurricanes Rita (2005), Ike (2008), Harvey (2017) and Tropical Storm Imelda . . .
Maddie and Charles Peddycoart know more about the costs associated with flood recovery than most. In the 19 years they've lived in their home in Hamshire, TX -- about 60 miles east of Houston and 27 miles southwest of Beaumont -- it has been flooded by storms four times: Hurricanes Rita (2005), Ike (2008), Harvey (2017) and Tropical Storm Imelda . . .