South Carolina Officials Discuss Flood Lines with FEMA Experts.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)Hill, Shelley
As of mid-afternoon Thursday, more than 687,000 homes and businesses in the Southeast had no electricity. Michael was a tropical storm, hitting North Carolina and South Carolina with heavy downpours and threatening to cause tornadoes. As of 2 p.m. ET, Michael's core ...
North Carolina, most of the flooded buildings were within the designated floodplain. But another 23% of flooded structures – almost 2,000 buildings – were just outside the FEMA zone, “an area FEMA flood maps designate as having ‘minimal’ flood ...
Local cities join to fight FEMA over flood zoning ; Portland and South Portland hope to change new designations that would put tight limits on pier construction.TOM BELL By TOM BELL Staff Writer