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Keep You and Your Family Safe Before, During, and After a Flood

There is an increased risk of flooding during spring months. During the winter months, frozen land prevents melting snow or rainfall from steeping into the ground, which can result in overflow of streams, rivers, and lakes, once the ground warms up. Add spring storms to that and there is a very good chance spring flooding will occur. Here is what to do to keep you...

Getting Familiar With The Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act

  Are you familiar with the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act? If not, you should be.  Many coastal area homeowners who have been affected by increases in property insurance should brace themselves for another large increase. The act was passed last July less than four months before Hurricane Sandy devastated coastlines in New York and New Jersey. The act is an effort by Congress to recover losses...