enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Floodplain - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floodplain

    Because of regular flooding, floodplains frequently have high soil fertility since nutrients are deposited with the flood waters. This can encourage farming; [4] some important agricultural regions, such as the Nile and Mississippi river basins, heavily exploit floodplains. Agricultural and urban regions have developed near or on floodplains to ...

  3. National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Flood_Insurance...

    At present, $527 billion worth of property is in the coastal floodplain. [6] The federal government heavily underwrites the flood insurance rates for these areas. The law "ordered FEMA to stop subsidizing flood insurance for second homes and businesses, and for properties that had been swamped multiple times."

  4. National Flood Insurance Program - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Flood_Insurance...

    Participation in the NFIP is based on an agreement between local communities and the federal government that states that if a community will adopt and enforce a floodplain management ordinance to reduce future flood risks to new construction in Special Flood Hazard Areas (SFHA), the federal government will make flood insurance available within the community as a financial protection against ...

  5. Flood management - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_management

    As climate change has led to increased flood risk an intensity, flood management is an important part of climate change adaptation and climate resilience. [2] [3] For example, to prevent or manage coastal flooding, coastal management practices have to handle natural processes like tides but also sea level rise due to climate change. The ...

  6. Flood insurance - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_insurance

    Flooding resulting from Hurricane Katrina. Nationwide, only 20 percent of American homes at risk for floods are covered by flood insurance. [2] Most private insurers do not insure against the peril of flood due to the prevalence of adverse selection, which is the purchase of insurance by persons most affected by the specific peril of flood.

  7. Flood - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood

    Floods often cause damage to homes and businesses if these buildings are in the natural flood plains of rivers. People could avoid riverine flood damage by moving away from rivers. However, people in many countries have traditionally lived and worked by rivers because the land is usually flat and fertile. Also, the rivers provide easy travel ...

  8. “Timestamped Pictures”: 50 Random Things People Did That ...

    www.aol.com/lifestyle/55-things-people-did-just...

    Image credits: debdeman #7. Not me but my mother. My mom bought the travel insurance on her Disneyworld trip because she is bipolar and thought if she had a bad day they would get a refund.

  9. Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act of 2014 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeowner_Flood_Insurance...

    At present, $527 billion worth of property is in the coastal floodplain. [3] The federal government heavily underwrites the flood insurance rates for these areas. The law "ordered FEMA to stop subsidizing flood insurance for second homes and businesses, and for properties that had been swamped multiple times."