Homeowner’s insurance — as homeowners sometimes learn too late — does not cover losses caused by a hurricane storm surge.
Authorities may come to a final decision this month about new design values for Southern Pine lumber.
The Mississippi Delta region of Louisiana is experiencing a combination of rising seas and subsiding land. The result: shorelines are sinking into the ocean.
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Homeowners with no flood insurance who received direct aid payments from FEMA to fix flood damage from Sandy won’t get any help next time, the agency says — unless they buy insurance coverage from the National Flood Insurance Program.
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Without an emergency appropriation from Congress, the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)’s cash reserves will run out next week.
For anyone who would like to view the storm’s impacts from an aerial perspective, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has provided a web resource.
The House of Representatives recessed on Wednesday without acting on emergency aid for the victims of Superstorm Sandy.
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For one Queens, NY family recovering from Hurricane Sandy, Christmas arrived on schedule — if only as a quiet, low-key version of the usual raucous celebration.
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Thousands of homeowners and businesses face the challenge of recovering from that destruction, and the first line of defense for many is their flood insurance.
Emergency legislation to provide funding for hurricane recovery is bogged down in the lame-duck Congress, as Democrats and Republicans spar over the details
Low-lying Delaware is one of the Atlantic Coast states with a major exposure to ocean flooding, and sea level rise could damage the state badly.
Since 2007, Florida has required contractors to reinforce the wall-to-roof connection during some remodeling or re-roofing work.
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New York City authorities are planning to re-draw the maps that define the areas in the city at risk from flood.
Rebuilding will not mean simply putting back what was there — in many cases, homes will have to comply with tougher standards than before.
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The methods insurance estimators use are a far cry from the way most contractors estimate.
Hurricane Sandy has generated hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of paying work for residential contractors, but that work is not going to be easy — and the money to be made is not going to be easy money either.
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While FEMA has spent or at least authorized hundreds of millions of dollars in relief, the government's resources do have limits.
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Almost six weeks after Hurricane Sandy slammed into New York City, parts of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island are still reeling from the blow.
