Friday, April 9, 2010

FEMA website says Ivan, Katrina did no flooding damage to Gulf Coast | al.com

FEMA website says Ivan, Katrina did no flooding damage to Gulf Coast | al.com: "The Federal Emergency Management Agency would like more people to buy flood insurance.

To prompt them, FEMA's National Flood Insurance Program has built an elaborate Web site -- Floodsmart.gov -- that examines past flood damage in every county in the United States since 1993.

There's a catch, though.

Look up Mobile County or Baldwin County, and the histories estimate that flooding from 2004's Hurricane Ivan caused $0 in damage. The same applies for 2005's Hurricane Katrina."