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The Associated Press: AP Enterprise: Few in flood zone have insurance
I guess they didn't learn from Katrina.
MOORHEAD, Minn. (AP) As the Red River crept within view of their backyard this past week, Denette and Billy Narum had an extra incentive to pray their sandbags held. Like most people in the path of potential floods, they have no flood insurance.
Fewer than 800 homeowners in the North Dakota and Minnesota communities most threatened by the swollen river hold insurance policies covering flood damage despite a decade-long push by state and federal officials to get people signed up, according to federal records obtained by The Associated Press.
I guess they didn't learn from Katrina.