Flooding in Red Hook, Brooklyn after Sandy (Flickr/gunnicool)
The agency ignored state and city officials' appeals to update the maps with better data until it was too late.
wnyc.org - December 6, 2013
by Al Shaw : ProPublica / Theodoric Meyer : ProPublica / Christie Thompson : ProPublica
When Patrice and Philip Morgan bought a house near the ocean in Brooklyn, they were not particularly worried about the threat of flooding.
Federal maps showed their home was outside the area at a high risk of flood damage. . .
. . . But the maps drawn up by the Federal Emergency Management Agency were wrong. And government officials knew it.
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