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By HOM Editor
August 2017

When we think about flood insurance we may think about expensive beach front homes and maybe even think they don’t belong there in the first place.   But flood insurance is needed in over 22,000 communities across our nation, including many that are home to average every day Americans who happen to live near a stream, lake, river of other sort of not so fancy wetland, many who may not even realize they need flood insurance, and even more who could never afford the kinds of price increases some in Washington have in store.

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