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Now Californians find out they don't have flood insurance!
*sigh*
47% of Americans surveyed think that flood protection comes with homeowner's insurance. It does not. It is an add-on policy. It not only protects you against things like the massive California floods, but also if your water heater bursts and damages the floor and carpets, or pipes in the ceiling leak and you have problems up there.
It's not a bad idea.
Californians? Apparently only 1.3% of them have flood insurance.
Oh my, do they have a wake-up call coming! And with Republicans in charge of the House - which allocates the nation's finances - and their broad hatred of things California, I would expect any sort of major financial relief to be quite stingy.
https://gizmodo.com/california-is-in-for-a-flood-insurance-wake-up-call-1850001122
47% of Americans surveyed think that flood protection comes with homeowner's insurance. It does not. It is an add-on policy. It not only protects you against things like the massive California floods, but also if your water heater bursts and damages the floor and carpets, or pipes in the ceiling leak and you have problems up there.
It's not a bad idea.
Californians? Apparently only 1.3% of them have flood insurance.
Oh my, do they have a wake-up call coming! And with Republicans in charge of the House - which allocates the nation's finances - and their broad hatred of things California, I would expect any sort of major financial relief to be quite stingy.
https://gizmodo.com/california-is-in-for-a-flood-insurance-wake-up-call-1850001122
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I have no idea how earthquake insurance would work, might be quite expensive if you lived near a major fault zone. We don't have flood insurance, though probably should since the risk of having a pipe burst due to a serious freeze is decidedly non-zero. We're very careful about setting faucets to drip when we know a big freeze is coming: my wife grew up in northern Ohio and went to school at Penn State, undergrad in the Boston area, so she knows snow and prevention/preservation.