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How Vermont Community Helped One Family Recover After Floods Took Everything
Dec 5 2024 // The last thing John and Jenny Mackenzie saw as they fled their Vermont home with their daughters, dog and two guinea pigs last summer was their cars upended and propelled away by rushing flood waters. Minutes earlier they...
Regulatory Roundup: California’s Flood Mitigation Initiative, Workers’ Comp Insurance Fraud, Over $300,000 in Compliance Fines
Dec 4 2024 // State-by-state variations of laws, compliance protocols, industry transparency, and general regulatory culture can lend one the impression that keeping up with industry changes is a little bit like herding cats. So, what...
FEMA Drops Hammer on Fort Myers Beach After Improper Rebuilding in Flood Area
Dec 3 2024 // Last spring, the Federal Emergency Management Agency jolted southwest Florida communities – most of which were still recovering from Hurricane Ian in 2022 – when it announced that the areas would lose their community...
New Jersey Using Buyouts and Barriers to Battle Flooding
Dec 2 2024 // New Jersey is using a mix of buyouts and barriers to tackle flooding in two vulnerable locations. Officials this week announced funding to buy and demolish homes in flood-prone sections of Cranford, a Union County...
Flood Adaptation Preferable to Post-Disaster Rebuilding – And It Helps With Insurability
Dec 2 2024 // Economic losses caused by natural catastrophes reached an estimated US$280 billion in 2023, with US$51.6 billion of that total due to floods, according to Swiss Re Institute. As climate change intensifies extreme weather...
Storm Bert Brings Flooding and Disruption to UK and France
Nov 25 2024 // Storm Bert left a trail of disruption across the UK, with hundreds of flood warnings in place for Wales and the west of England. Five people were reported to have died by local media, after the storm brought heavy rain and...
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