Holy Crap - the City of Lake Delton, WI had "opted out" of the FEMA flood insurance

[KitchenWitch]

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=761341

Residents and landowners affected by the Lake Delton breach spent Wednesday seeking an explanation for why the community opted out of a free national floodplain insurance program that 90% of the state's flood-prone communities have joined.

Anguish over the lack of insurance surfaced as members of the Federal Emergency Management Agency prepared to survey the damage in Sauk County and several other Wisconsin counties today.

The Village of Lake Delton began the paperwork just two weeks ago to rejoin the floodplain insurance program after a dispute with FEMA's floodplain elevation maps from 2001 caused it to back out. But because of that decision, residents such as Tim Fromm, Tom Pekar and Don Kubenik were not able to obtain flood insurance - which is backed by the federal government - for the homes they built on the shore of Lake Delton within the last few years.

The incompetence never ceases to astound me.

:grr:

[KitchenWitch]

1. ...

[orleans]

2. unfucking real. something tells me those village officials may not be reelected

how horrible--no flood insurance? omg!

[KitchenWitch]

3. I am so furious and disgusted by this

I had a lot of fun when I visited there during summers as a child.

:cry:

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. sorry Kitchenwitch

[KitchenWitch]

5. Thanks, this flat out sucks.

[orleans]

6. i'm kicking this thread. n/t