- kik2dagroin
- Mar 23, 2007
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Use the anger. Use it.
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Y'all might also be interested in this 3-part series from NBC news
Part 1: Why Taxpayers Will Bail Out the Rich When the Next Storm Hits
Part 2: Meet the Flood Insurance 'Robin Hood' Who Saves Condo Owners Millions
Part 3: For Average Joes, Fighting FEMA Flood Maps Isn't Easy or Cheap
TL;DR:
Part 1 posted:Freudenthal’s West Palm Beach company, which also does business as Flood Risk Solutions, LLC, does not work for owners of single-family homes, only for commercial real estate companies.
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Yet in the more than 500 instances documented by NBC News, FEMA has quietly moved the map lines to benefit properties that were once considered at highest risk of flooding.
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In emails to clients and city officials, Freudenthal has touted his company's connections to FEMA. In 2011, Freudenthal's flood insurance company, CRIO, was chosen by FEMA as the national insurance agency of the year. When he encounters resistance from a local official, Freudenthal calls Washington. "I just got off the phone with the head of the insurance side of NFIP and one of the head mapping people at FEMA," he said in one email to a town official.
Freudenthal has also touted the connections of the man who worked for him as the engineer on the Gulf Coast map changes.
"As you can see this is all pretty detailed stuff and a bunch of red-tape to work through," he told a client in a 2011 email. "We are extremely lucky that the head of our Coastal Department is the ex-director for FEMA's Coastal Mapping Department so we are able to leverage his relationships to overcome many of the obstacles that pop up as he has managed to keep his relationships within the current FEMA infrastructure very friendly."
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"FEMA takes its responsibility for administering the National Flood Insurance Program seriously and is reviewing the cases presented by NBC to ensure they were properly processed," Watson said in the statement. "FEMA strives to ensure that administrative actions are properly executed and meet all statutory and regulatory mandates. The data provided by applicants for LOMAs (letters of map amendment) and LOMRs (letters of map revision) are reviewed based on scientific, technical standards and approved or denied based on those standards. FEMA has monitoring, oversight, and audit processes in place to ensure the work performed by contractors follows proper procedures."
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Freudenthal, the president of Flood Zone Correction, said FEMA sometimes gives the company more than it asked for. For instance, Freudenthal said he filed an appeal on behalf of certain condo buildings in Gulf Shores, with vacant spots in between, but FEMA responded by remapping an entire mile of the oceanfront in March 2013. Now, he said, any future development of those properties can be done without meeting the stricter building rules of a high-velocity wave zone, such as breakaway walls on the ground floor and pilings sunk deep to anchor a foundation.
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"Who's on first?" Wireman asked. "If they're moving one building out of the zone, why would that cause them to put the other building in the zone?
"What did I think? You sure you want to know what I think? I think someone at FEMA was trying to drum up more business for Flood Zone Correction."
FEMA and Flood Zone Correction said nothing untoward had happened. Freudenthal said, "Nobody at FEMA, their subcontractors or the community did us any favors."
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slapfight going on banning each other from their respective sites for not being white nationalist enough. They're taking a nice cue from freepers by labeling this incident as a false flag because only one Jewish person was actually killed and shouting 'Heil Hitler' isn't something you totally would do if you were a goddamn Nazi 
