Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria left billions of dollars in damage — but most homeowners with big losses didn’t have flood insurance.Dallas,...
This story was first published in 2017 after Hurricane Harvey. We are bringing it back after flooding this week in Dallas.
Now, Dallas has experienced a once-in-1,000-year storm, with record rainfall and damaging floods that ruined property and left one woman dead. , unprecedented rainfall filled all six local reservoirs, said Jerry Cotter, chief of water resources for the Fort Worth division of the Army Corps of Engineers.“We will have one of these monster storms hit Dallas-Fort Worth,” Cotter said. “It’s not a question of if, it’s a question of when.”
Not necessarily. More than 1 in 5 flood insurance claims come from people who live outside a 100-year flood plain, according to FEMA.
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