![]() “You know, I talked to my insurance man about flood coverage), but I decided not to get it,” Ferris, 87, told the Asbury Park Press last week.Īnd why would they get flood insurance? Their homes had never previously flooded and are in what FEMA, the federal agency that creates hazard maps to indicate levels of flood risk in an area, considers “Zone X” - a minimally threatened location that has less than a 1 in 500 chance of a damaging flood in any given year. “You don’t have flood insurance,” Jay Nolan, who lives on Markham Street near Ferris, recalled his agent telling him. ![]() ![]() While homeowners policies usually pay out in the event that a pipe bursts and floods your kitchen, they do not typically cover water that falls from the sky The homeowners in Greenbriar and nearby Sutton Village face the prospect of repairing thousands of dollars worth of damage out of their own pocket. ![]() These kinds of storms are becoming more regular, experts say, meaning that homeowners would be well served to consider another layer of protection - flood insurance - on their largest asset.Īlthough the flooding at Ferris’s home was relatively tame, first-responders rescued some of his neighbors using a fleet of boats in the worst round of flooding in Ocean County since superstorm Sandy nearly six years ago. More than 200 homes in Brick were damaged, along with a couple dozen in Howell, by floodwaters that day. During a freakishly potent storm two weeks ago, rainwater three inches deep rushed into retiree Robert Ferris’s home in Brick’s Greenbriar senior living community. ![]()
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