After saving the plover, failing to anticipate that which any reasonable person would--that is, that the record snowfall this past winter in the ten states and two Canadian provinces that drain into the Missouri River Basin might just fill up all the reservoirs from Montana to South Dakota when it all melted (See: “I Hope the Plover are Happy" --Protecting People from Flooding by Flooding People, and Stoos Views)--and just when you thought that things could not get worse, FEMA and the Corps have now teamed up in an effort to deny folks insurance under the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP).
In a move that can only be described as cruel, incredibly ill timed, and unwelcome
In a move that can only be described as cruel, incredibly ill timed, and unwelcome, FEMA has announced that the release of water from the Garrison Dam in North Dakota on June 1, 2011 was the official start of this government-initiated, intentional “flood in progress” [sic], thereby invoking an exclusion in the National Flood Insurance policy which precludes coverage for flood losses if the policy was not in effect prior to the government’s arbitrarily picked date for the “flood in progress.” In other words--whether you knew it or not--you were officially flooded on June 1, 2011 by government fiat. Put simply, the Corps set folks up for the sucker punch and FEMA has now delivered it. The Corps has decided to release record amounts of water which promise to inundate a good chunk of the Missouri basin, with little or no notice to the tens of thousands of folks down stream (“Oh, by the way folks we are increasing the volume of the river to 1.6 times its normal flow--thought you would want to know--and it is coming in a week.”) And FEMA says you should have had flood insurance by June 1, 2011 because, after all, you were flooded on that date. Officially.
If you happen to be downstream hundreds of miles from the Garrison Dam, and
did not learn about the impending release of the Noah-like flood waters prior to the arbitrary deadline set by FEMA;
have no water lapping at your door or even the prospect of it;
do not live in a flood zone;
the river was not even at flood stage when you applied and
you have absolutely no “losses in progress” at the time
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