Certain residents of Michigan have recently received letters from their mortgage companies, informing them that they will be required to purchase flood insurance, or that coverage will be bought on their behalf. This is the result of a newly mapped flood plain by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and affects the residents of the Frank and Poet Drain, who are currently in an uproar over the sudden cost. Since February 2012, when the new Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) went into effect, there has been a much larger area…
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Federal Emergency Management Agency expected to change the Louisiana flood zones
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is expected to change the flood map in Louisiana that will decrease the quantity of land that will be referred to as flood zones in Lafayette Parish. The first update to the flood map for the parish in Louisiana was in 1996. FEMA has announced that a final version of the map has been developed, but that it is not yet available for release. According to officials from the city-parish, it is expected that the map will become available to them within the next…
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