New flood maps in many states have raised the estimation of flood risks along rivers, streams and oceans, adding many properties to flood zones for the first time.
The National Flood Insurance Program is a valuable tool in addressing the losses incurred throughout this country due to floods. It assures that businesses and families have access to affordable flood insurance that would not be available on the open...
In an ant colony dew is a flood.
Every flood has its ebb.
To the ant, a few drops of dew is a flood.
One shower doesn't make a flood.
After high floods come low ebbs.
Ebb does not follow ebb -- flood is in between.
It rained on the mountaintop, but it was the valley below that got flooded.
The flood takes him in, and the ebb takes him out.
The hurricane flooded me out of a lot of memorabilia, but it can't flood out the memories.
Lloyd Dobler: I'm gonna take Diane Court out again. Corey Flood: Well, that's unlikely. Lloyd Dobler: Is the movies a good second date? You know, as a date? Corey Flood: Well, you never had a first date. Lloyd Dobler: Yes we did. I sat across from he...
Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.
A property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred years without global warming. The fact that several years go by without a flood does not change that probability.
Three things it is best to avoid: a strange dog, a flood, and a man who thinks he is wise.
What greater flood can there be than the flood of ideas? How quickly they submerge all that they set out to destroy, how rapidly do they create terrifying depths?
His attention. Sweet and intense at the same time. Like a barley sugar I could untwist from its plastic and hold in my mouth. A flood of secret pleasure.
Love has its tides; before ebb tide you must take advantage of the flood.
Second, there are two problems with respect to mobile homes in particular. One is we obviously don't want to put them in a flood plain, because if there's another flood, you're going to lose the mobile home.
Today more than 20,000 communities participate in the National Flood Insurance Program. More than 90 insurance companies sell and service flood service insurance. There are more than four million policies covering the total of $800 billion.
In more than 500 instances, from the Gulf of Alaska to Bar Harbor, Maine, FEMA has remapped waterfront properties from the highest-risk flood zone, saving the owners as much as 97 percent on the premiums they pay into the financially strained Nationa...
