Case 7 - FEMA

Over the course of the entire 20th century, floods were the number-one disaster in the United States in terms of lives lost and property damage, according to statistics gathered by the United States Geological Survey (USGS). Flooding has caused the deaths of more than 4,000 people since 1900 (more than 10,000 if the storm surge from the 1900 Galveston hurricane is categorized as a flood event ... ................
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