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Down to cairo and we found it is a different approach to dealing with disasters. in illinois, we have a comprehensive disaster response program that is actually in full swing right now in southern illinois but we will have a program that goes on each day of the year, year round, and that s hazard mitigation program and in this case it s specific to flood mitigation. what we have found is that in illinois we have many streams and rivers and there is a lot of areas that have repeat flooding where the homes are damaged not necessarily each year but maybe every two years or three years. so we have the damage disaster assistance provided or insurance is collected on and it is repeat, year after year. the sure way of stopping that expenditure of funds is to remove those homes from the ....

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