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PoliticAverse

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5. Whether yours is too low or not depends on how likely your area is to flood...

Reply to Pachamama (Reply #2)

Thu Jan 3, 2013, 03:34 PM

Jan 2013

Are you one of those people who builds a house right on the beach which gets washed away every 10 years or so ?

Those people qualify for flood insurance.

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The flood insurance program has been setting rates too low... PoliticAverse Jan 2013 #1

Not sure what you define as low.... Pachamama Jan 2013 #2

Whether yours is too low or not depends on how likely your area is to flood... PoliticAverse Jan 2013 #5

Live in a house built in 1906 - long before I was born....No, Not "one of THOSE people"... Pachamama Jan 2013 #6

Heh, I didn't presume I asked. Apparently you are subsidizing the house on the beach people PoliticAverse Jan 2013 #7

You presumed.... Pachamama Jan 2013 #8

340$ a year for me. AtheistCrusader Jan 2013 #9

Anyone who has a mortgage on a house in a designated floodzone is required to have the flood policy Pachamama Jan 2013 #11

Absolutely. AtheistCrusader Jan 2013 #12

What about Drought Insurance? Berlum Jan 2013 #3

"We live on the interface between radioactive molten rock and the hard vacuum of space and worry ab" AtheistCrusader Jan 2013 #10

the conservatives are finding out what the repugs really are and how samsingh Jan 2013 #4