NEW YORK — After being pummeled by two tropical storms that submerged basements, cracked residence foundations and destroyed belongings, Northeastern U.S. residents nonetheless within the throes of restoration are being hit with one other sudden blow: Hundreds of households are actually swamped with monetary losses as a result of they did not have flood insurance coverage.
Most of these caught off guard by the extraordinary downpours from the remnants of Hurricane Ida and Tropical Storm Henri lived in areas outdoors of coastal floodplains, making flood insurance coverage an afterthought for a lot of the working-class households whose neighborhoods had been