Experts suggested that more data and education are needed as Texas and the rest of the country build in known flood plains.

  • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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    Depends where your “flood zone” is… If your coastal you get heavy subsidies, if your inland (barring being near some large rivers and lakes) you are subsidizing the coast.

    I have to pay flood insurance for a dry brook that hasn’t flooded in its history. It costs over $1,200 a year for my 160k house. If I could get private flood insurance the cost would be 2 to 300, possibly even less.

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      You may be able to dispute that. I had a similar requirement, and it turns out the maps they based their decisions on were very out of date. I live on a hill that even a 30 foot swell wouldn’t touch. It took a while,and we had to work with the state emergency agency, but we were able to remove the requirement.

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        Yeah, there is a whole LOMA (Letter of Map Adjustment) process. However it’s super confusing, and I am 95% sure I will have to hire a land surveyor for 1-2k to get it done, due to no recent maps of the area.