Word: flooded
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Surviving the flood was just the first challenge. The Nathans then spent two days searching for food and water and being turned away from checkpoints...
Geology has only made things worse. Gulf land is squishy stuff, made mostly of silt deposited by eons of free-flowing rivers and periodic floods. When the high water recedes, the sedimentary layer remains, growing heavier and heavier and ultimately subsiding under its own weight. The only way to keep the land from sinking altogether is to let the soil replenish itself with each flood. Human beings have done just the opposite, walling off New Orleans and re-engineering the Mississippi River to flow around the growing metropolis, effectively choking off the silt supply...
...insurance industry paid out a record $49 billion in claims, including $23 billion for U.S. hurricane damage, according to the reinsurance firm Swiss Re. There is plenty of money sloshing around the global- insurance pool to handle Katrina claims, and the Federal Government will pick up the tab for flood damage. One concern for consumers is that many insurers, facing hurricane-related claims, may pull out of the state, setting off a homeowner scramble for new policies. Only a month after state regulators approved a 21% rate hike, Nationwide Insurance announced that it wouldn't renew policies for more than...
...affect rates in their states, but that doesn't make sense," he says. "Demand for reinsurance is going to rise, supply is down, and that cost will be passed on to consumers." All this is academic, though, for the thousands of poor homeowners who did not have federal flood insurance and may have to rely on low-interest loans in order to rebuild...
...minutes on Saturday evening, John Henry Flood kept the Harvard men’s lacrosse team in the game against Dartmouth. The junior midfielder won a career-high 25 of 29 faceoffs heading into the third overtime, and kept a Big Green offense—the Ivy League’s second-most prolific—off the field enough during the game to help the Crimson to a stunning 73-36 advantage in shots taken.But Flood was unable to win his 30th and most important faceoff, one that Dartmouth controlled and used to score the game-winning goal just...