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Society for Risk Analysis: How Could Rising Sea Level Impact the National Flood Insurance Program? Targeted News Service (Press Releases) HERNDON, Virginia, The Society for Risk Analysis issued the following news release: Insurance policy premiums from the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) allow policyholders to maintain a lower, grandfathered rate even when the risk escalates. But as coastal flooding increases due to rising sea level and more intense storms, new research published in the journal Risk Analysis suggests this grandfathered policy could lead to big losses for the NFIP. A ...

Severe weather center. russell, tell me a little bit about how you are looking at all of this where you are in norman, oebz. >> welloklahoma. >> today we are right in the epicenter of strong tornado risk. as you mention long, violent tornadoes are possible within the hazard area and it extends from central oklahoma southward a little bit west of dallas and then northward all the way through wichita, kansas and well into central kansas. unfortunately it also extends eastward towards springfield, month and would include the joplin, missouri area. martha: wow, you can't even imagine what another ...

And there's a domino effect. same thing here, there's a disconnect between making sure home owners know when they're signing the paper work, the paper work, the bureaucracy, they don't even, i think a lot of them aren't aware of the risk, they might not know they're living in a hazard area and fema who is failing to do its job to enforce the mechanism in the documents. >> gary, you would think that almost everyone in florida is in the flood zone, in terms of when a big storm comes, everyone is fair game. so, a higher percentage would have such coverage. it's certainly a higher percentage than ...