and FEMA isn’t prepared.
According to insurancenewsnet.com, The National Flood Insurance Program expired at 12:01 A.M. on June 1st. Apparently Congress could not settle on either a short-term or long-term extension on the program. So, they let it go as they took a week long break for the Memorial Day holiday.
Well, that’s disappointing. You’d think that with the past years of damage that had been wreaked on the southern U.S. Congress would put that at the top of the list. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recently projected on May 27 a 70% probability that the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season would involve between 14 and 23 named storms, eight to14 hurricanes and three to seven “major” hurricanes, or those of category three or higher.
Congress has had ...