Daily News | A Bucks County town reels from a flood tragedy and worries about what might happen next
has won praise from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for its efforts to hold back the waters, but they were not to be stopped on July 15.For one thing, said David R. Easterling, chief of the assessments branch at the National Centers for Environmental Information, in a climate-change world made moister by rising temperatures, the downpours aren’t going way. “We expect to see more,” he said, adding that for a variety of reasons, the Northeast has been especially vulnerable.
Could a township with such a flood resume have done more to prevent a tragedy such as the one that occurred July 15? Nicholas Pinter, associate director of the Center for Watershed Sciences at the University of California Davis. “It’s not just blowing smoke.”Pinter coauthored a study that estimated CRS saved $11.4 billion in flood losses and yielded $12.1 billion in reduced insurance premiums from 1998 to 2020.
FEMA gave Upper Makefield strong marks for stormwater management and for keeping the public informed of flood risks. But none of the boxes the township checked could have prevented the tragedy at Washington Crossing. Flood insurance has elements of what the industry calls “adverse risk.” Invoking a metaphor to explain the concept, Osman says to think of a car insurance company that writes policies only to 16- to 20-year-old males with terrible driving records.
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