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Florida homeowners prize flood insurance.
Publication: The Miami Herald (Miami, Florida) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News) Publication Date: 31-AUG-05 |
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COPYRIGHT 2005 The Miami Herald
Byline: Beatrice E. Garcia
Aug. 31--Water began to seep under Lynette and Charles Brown's front door by 10 p.m. last Thursday night as Hurricane Katrina raged through their South Miami Heights neighborhood.
In their neatly kept cul-de-sac, the couple and many of their neighbors ended up with several inches of water inside their single-family homes. Now swales are piled high with soaked carpeting and furniture.
The Browns had 10 inches of water inside. Luckily, they had purchased flood insurance. They tapped it last in 1999 after Hurricane Irene's flooding, and they're hoping it will come through again.
"They took care of our losses then. But we don't know...
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