Homeowners in Louisiana’s fragile delta are living outside the Federal levee system — and with FEMA policy changing, they’re worried about the future.
Richard Schifter’s house-with-a-view sits on a beautiful Nantucket bluff. But the ocean isn’t bluffing — and now the cliff is crumbling under Schifter’s footings. So Schifter is hedging his investment and moving the giant house back from the edge of destruction — swimming pool and all.
On the New Jersey shore, well-off beachfront owners are fighting dune construction by public authorities. In New York, the situation is reversed: big-house owners are building their own dunes, over the objections of other townsfolk. The fight is less about the view than about the question: Who owns...
Battered by hurricanes and nor’easters, N.C. 12—the Outer Banks’ fragile lifeline—is on life support.
An Inspector General report says more than half a billion dollars in Hurricane Katrina relief money may have been misspent. Most Katrina victims who were awarded $30,000 apiece to elevate their houses never documented that the work was done.
In the Barnegat Bay, side-scanning sonar and “picker” boats are the tools for a tedious cleanup.
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Some homeowners may be forced out. Others may be able to rebuild, better. But one thing’s for sure: Things are going to change in Union Beach, New Jersey.
In a first for the New Jersey recovery effort, FEMA has provided a trailer to a New Jersey family on land they already own.
The latest in a series of tough winter storms brought more flooding and more destruction to New Jersey and Massachusetts shore towns.
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As flood insurance rates get ready to spike sharply upward, buyers and sellers are worried about the consequences.
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A Maryland builder says requirements for downspout sump pits are forcing him to damage tree roots.
“I cried all the way home,” said Staten Island homeowner Emilya Malkin after encountering New York City Parks Police on the beach near her house. Malkin says police threatened her family with arrest as she strolled with her husband and children.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was quick to embrace FEMA’s new flood plain maps. But not everyone feels the same way.
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Manhattan business leaders are keen to let people know that parts of the island worst hit by Superstorm Sandy are bouncing back.
Communities on Long Island’s south shore are facing a new problem: with the protective barrier island damaged, tides flood their streets every day.
Four months after Hurricane Sandy, it’s not just the beach communities in New Jersey to Long Island that are still in rough shape. Parts of Manhattan are also far from recovering.
A South Carolina blue-ribbon commission working to re-envision the state’s 25-year-old Beachfront Management Act will likely give up on the law’s central notion, a policy of retreat from the shoreline to move development away from the water.
Superstorm Sandy did not flood downtown Boston — but it could have. Had the storm arrived six hours earlier, at high tide, water would have surged through city streets.
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Boaters on the Jersey Shore this summer risk collisions with everything up to and including the kitchen sink.
New Jersey’s mayors and city council members have been getting their first look at the latest flood maps from FEMA — and they don’t like what they’re seeing.