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                <p>Over 50 inches of rain has fallen in less than a week in Houston—which exceeds the city’s annual average—and southwest Louisiana was shared in the deluge to a lesser extent. Hurricane Harvey is expected to finally weaken Wednesday night, but already, an estimated 30,000 people have been displaced in Houston alone.</p>
                <p>Flood insurance, which seeks to enable families to rebuild houses and resume their lives, does not remedy the personal costs or the larger civic expenditures in the immediate wake of a tragic inundation. The extensive flooding in Houston, Beaumont, Texas, and southwest Louisiana has exposed many of the shortcomings of the nation’s current flood insurance program—as have a series of recent floods across south Louisiana in the past year.</p>
                <p>Currently, the flood insurance program requires homebuyers to purchase policies in certain designated high-risk zones. As Congress goes to work on flood insurance reform next month, they should recognize that cities, particularly those with millions of residents in the Gulf Coast, have enabled development to expand well beyond safe landscapes. Furthermore, every home, school, shopping center, and parking lot sheds water quickly, which strains drainage systems that were not designed to handle 6 inches an hour or 20 inches in two days.</p>
                
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                <p>Baton Rouge, La. and Lafayette, La. suffered flood damages well beyond the expectations of residents in the past year after rainfall of more than 20 inches. Many residents, as is the case in Houston today, did not have flood insurance, and local leaders requested disaster relief funds to enable recovery—Louisiana was able to secure only a portion of the funds it requested. Local governments are not able to handle the cost of extreme events, so they regularly turn to the federal government for assistance. In these tight fiscal times, Congress has begun to push back against disaster relief—as in the case of Superstorm Sandy and the Louisiana floods in 2016.</p>
                <p>Congress needs to keep in mind that storms like the ones of the past year are becoming commonplace. An insurance system designed to put people back in their homes no longer makes fiscal sense if they will face a repeat event. Two simple steps can help remedy the shortfall in the flood insurance funds and their long-term effectiveness. Flood zones where homebuyers seek loans should be expanded to at least the 500-year zone, using not local hydrologic records as the base line, but the most extreme regional rainfall event. If we expand the flood zones, there will be more policy holders, meaning each can pay lower rates, while the total underwriting pool will grow. By using the more extreme precipitation event—the regional record no one wants—homeowners will be less likely to be surprised by extraordinary rainfall.</p>
                
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