Updated flood insurance rate maps come out later this month
Story date: 2008-02-17 05:50:00
Added on: 2008-02-17 09:36:43
Daily Comet - paying a mortgage on your home, you may be required to purchase flood insurance. And the cost of flood insurance will go up once the parish adopts the new flood insurance rate maps, Gordon said. Flood insurance purchased before the updated maps were ...
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