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A good rating by FEMA means up to a 40% reduction for those who use the National Flood Insurance Program.
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A storm system should arrive to the state on Sunday. Multiple rounds of heavy rain could lead to local flash flooding. Isolated strong wind gusts and brief tornadoes are possible too.
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An exact count of flood-prone homes in South Florida — and where and how often they flood — has been all but impossible to pin down.
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An exact count of flood-prone homes in South Florida — and where and how often they flood — has been all but impossible to pin down.
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The location at 100 N. Osceola Ave. closed in September when a fire sprinkler pipe failed. The resulting flood damaged about 16,000 books.
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Flood risk and climate change are pushing millions of people to move from their homes, according to a new study by the risk analysis firm First Street Foundation. It's stifling growth in prospering cities and accelerating declines in struggling areas. Local moves are driving the changes.
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There are hundreds of U.S. neighborhoods where the population is declining due to flood risk, a new study suggests. Climate change drives flooding from heavy rain and sea level rise.
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In Monroe, the climate threat is already considered so serious that political leaders are now pushing a bold plan built around a typically unpopular option. They want to raise taxes — in this case, sales taxes.
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A frontal boundary will slowly track through the Florida Panhandle starting late tonight. Abundant moisture will increase ahead of the system causing rounds of heavy rain and isolated severe storms Friday through Sunday.
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South Florida could get more flood protection from the federal government sooner than expected.
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South Florida’s drainage canals are overwhelmed by king tides, and sea rise could only worsen the issue.
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Florida International University’s Martina Potlach, whose studies marry landscape design and ecology, gave ideas on how to reconceptualize how shorelines work if humans are to live in coastal South Florida as storms intensify and the sea moves in.