These Texans Aren’t Taking Buyouts Despite Repeated Floods May 21, 2024 By Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune HARRIS COUNTY — After the floodwaters earlier this month just about swallowed two of the six homes that 60-year-old Tom...
Maryland’s Smith Island Commits to Rebuilding Community, Rejecting Buyouts November 30, 2022 By KRISTIAN JAIME, The Daily Times SMITH ISLAND, Md. (AP) — For the people of Smith Island, weather guides a way of life as much as...
Homeowners in South Carolina County Seek Buyout of Flooded Property February 21, 2017 More than two dozen Lexington County, S.C., residents are ready to sell their homes rather than repair the flood damage....
In Shickshinny, Penn., Flood-Buyout Program to Continue Through 2014 January 2, 2014 By Jennifer Learn-Andes, The (Wilkes-Barre) Times Leader Donald Hargraves is flooded with nostalgia when he drives past the Shickshinny, Penn., home he owned for more than five...
New Jersey Residents Say Flood Buyout Programs Fall Short January 30, 2012 State and federal programs offer homeowners in North Jersey’s flood-ravaged areas a buyout. But the combination of red tape and...