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What's Going On: Watching the rivers flow

Just call me The Amazing Mazzo. We weren't peering into a crystal ball last month when we wrote about the need to reauthorize the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), but we might as well have been. As

By Laura Mazzuca Toops, Broker Editor | Updated on June 30, 2008

Just call me The Amazing Mazzo. We weren’t peering into a crystal ball last month when we wrote about the need to reauthorize the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), but we might as well have been. As of this writing, six states are still bailing out from severe storms and flooding that have killed 24 people, injured 148, and caused more than $1.5 billion in estimated damage in Iowa alone–a figure that’s likely to increase as more storms are predicted and river levels continue to climb. (I had litter boxes floating in my own basement when storms struck and ComEd failed to restore power for the next 20 hours, but that’s another, much less compelling story.)

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