Andrew Cuomo Quotes

A property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred years without global warming. The fact that several years go by without a flood does not change that probability.

The National Flood Insurance Program is a valuable tool in addressing the losses incurred throughout this country due to floods. It assures that businesses and families have access to affordable flood insurance that would not be available on the open market.

Being in a floodplain is like sitting down in a bathtub.

Second, there are two problems with respect to mobile homes in particular. One is we obviously don't want to put them in a flood plain, because if there's another flood, you're going to lose the mobile home.

The Peckman River Basin has frequently flooded, and for more than a generation, the towns of Little Falls and Woodland Park have faced these challenges largely on their own.

The Hunting Bayou and Greens Bayou watersheds have experienced major flooding over the years and are crying out for investment to protect the hundreds of thousands of residents and businesses in those areas.

State ownership of flood control efforts will not completely eliminate the problem but can substantially reduce it.

You can't vote that water out of the city of New Orleans.

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don't have to participate.

Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it has to.

Homeowners and business owners across the country agreed to pay premiums, communities agreed to adopt building codes to mitigate flood dangers, and the Federal Government agreed to provide insurance coverage to policyholders after a disaster.

Today more than 20,000 communities participate in the National Flood Insurance Program. More than 90 insurance companies sell and service flood service insurance. There are more than four million policies covering the total of $800 billion.

This Time, Let's Build a New Venice and Not Another New Orleans

The levee system on the Mississippi River is now in a position to protect the Mississippi River Basin from flooding.

No two floods are alike.

Having just one insurance provider for all flood risk in the entire country makes no sense.

However deep you dig a well it affords no refuge in the time of flood.

You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you.

New flood maps in many states have raised the estimation of flood risks along rivers, streams and oceans, adding many properties to flood zones for the first time.

We could receive a storm surge of three to five feet.

New Orleans has to learn to live with water rather than in fear of water, and we need a master plan that shows us how to do this. It's so critical that we send a signal to everyone in the country that we're serious about rebuilding New Orleans.

FEMA says that it does not factor in previous losses into its decisions on applications to redraw the flood zones.

You know, we lose more homes every year to flooding than we do any other event in America.

Like air pollution, flood risk is a threat that government should be protecting us against.