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The Three F's: FEMA, Flood Insurance and...Frustration in Madison County, IL

UPDATE: Monday, January 4, 2010, FEMA announced that new flood insurance maps for the St. Louis area will be delayed until at least 2011.
That means property owners in low lying parts of Madison County won't be faced with steep increases in flood insurance premiums for at least another year.  <!--[endif]-->
Senator Dick Durbin and Congressman Jerry Costello had asked FEMA for the delay to give officials more time to devise a plan for the levees and to begin any needed repairs.   
Following is the original blog post:
There's not much reason to think about the mightly Mississippi River during the course of daily, modern life here in St. Louis' Illinois suburbs,
My 93-year-old mother-in-law grew up on a farm on Chouteau Island in the midst of the Mississippi. In those days the rushing river was a constant companion -- a threat you respected. To this day she still doesn't care for water.
But today we don't often consider that America's greatest river is flowing by as our western border. Protecting our county's flood plain communities from that force of nature is a series of levees that could be de-certified in 2010 by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). 
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