United States: Port city pushes back against Washington’s tightening flood insurance definitions
By | Published: September 30, 2009
New York Times: The ocean is slowly rising to meet this city’s wooden lobster wharfs. As area seas lick up the old log pilings, warming waters invite hurricanes and new predatory fish into the nation’s northern gulf. But these are relatively distant threats when compared with a storm brewing in Washington, D.C., where federal experts are redrawing the nation’s flood maps that define insurance coverage eligibility. It’s the political climate that’s causing city and state officials to hunker down in …
United States: Port city pushes back against Washington’s tightening flood insurance definitions
New York Times: The ocean is slowly rising to meet this city’s wooden lobster wharfs. As area seas lick up the old log pilings, warming waters invite hurricanes and new predatory fish into the nation’s northern gulf. But these are relatively distant threats when compared with a storm brewing in Washington, D.C., where federal experts are redrawing the nation’s flood maps that define insurance coverage eligibility. It’s the political climate that’s causing city and state officials to hunker down in …
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