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Heavy rain last Thursday evening spared Blessed Sacrament School from flooding, but a storm a few weeks ago didn’t.
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Andrew Hackmack
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9/22/10
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An Aug. 31 meeting at Village Hall finally gave Valley Stream residents their chance to meet face to face with representatives from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which changed the flood plain maps and put thousands of local residents into high-risk flood zones.
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9/15/10
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Sen. Chuck Schumer says it is time for Federal Emergency Management Agency officials to go back to the drawing board. The senator blasted the agency on Monday at Valley Stream Village Hall, saying that its new flood maps are littered with inaccuracies
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Andrew Hackmack
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9/13/10
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At the urging of hundreds of Valley Stream residents, the Federal Emergency Management Agency will do a ground study of the community to determine whether its new flood maps are accurate.
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Andrew Hackmack
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9/8/10
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At a recent town hall meeting at the Valley Stream Village Hall, present were many residents of Valley Stream and adjacent communities affected by the changed flood maps instituted by FEMA. As is fairly well known at this point, these maps took areas of Long Island’s South Shore with no prior history of floods and categorized them as high risk areas.
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9/8/10
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Sept 4: Fears of extensive flooding, power outages and property damage fizzled on Friday as Hurricane Earl passed far enough out to sea that Nassau County suffered little more than scattered beach flooding.
Even Jones Beach State Park, where extensive flooding was reported, had some areas open for swimming today and the Stone Temple Pilots concert planned for tonight at the Nikon at Jones Beach Theater will take place as scheduled.
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9/4/10
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More than 200 Valley Stream residents packed the courtroom at Village Hall on Tuesday night, demanding answers from FEMA about the new flood maps.
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Andrew Hackmack
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9/1/10
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Residents of southern Valley Stream have a lot of questions about the new flood maps that went into effect last year. And soon they could have some answers.
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Andrew Hackmack
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8/25/10
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There’s no way to sugarcoat this: The implementation of the new Federal Emergency Management Agency flood maps last year simply wasn’t handled very well. The proof? The anger of Valley Stream homeowners, who said they were never notified of the changes, missed out on lower flood insurance rates and are now paying $1,800 a year or more in premiums.
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7/28/10
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Gibson residents are not happy about the new Federal Emergency Management Agency flood maps, which have left many homeowners with costly insurance bills, and they let the village board hear it on Monday night.
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Andrew Hackmack
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7/21/10
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