Many property owners don’t understand how flood insurance works
By Jennifer Scherff, Project Manager for My Flood Insurance Our team has heard almost every myth about flood insurance. We ...
Tag: National Flood Insurance Program
Many Floridians who own property vulnerable to flooding don’t have flood insurance
By Jennifer Scherff, My Flood Insurance We need to talk about flood insurance. The topic of flooding has been very ...
As flood threats rise, Floridians have a right to know their risk
By Amanda Bryant, My Flood Risk For more than a year, flood preparedness advocates in Florida have urged lawmakers to protect homebuyers ...
It’s important for Florida property owners to understand the risks they face from flooding as sea levels rise
Hurricane season is behind us, but floods can occur anywhere it rains or anywhere near a body of water. They ...
A 45-year-old federal privacy law makes it difficult for homebuyers to get a property’s flooding history
The Privacy Act of 1974, while laudable in its aim to provide citizens with rights to control the federal government’s ...
State and federal leaders need to quit debating whether climate change is real, and start lending a hand to address it
When a storm like Hurricane Dorian begins hurdling toward our state, federal and state leaders cannot convene enough press conferences ...
Despite new resilience programs, more needs to be done to protect the people living and working in existing buildings
Last month, Miami-Dade County, Miami Beach and Miami launched their “Resilient305” initiative. This was another strategy supported by the Rockefeller ...
See what happens to your neighborhood as the sea level rises with this interactive map from Climate Central.