In one of the New Jersey communities hardest hit by Ida, residents who can’t afford to elevate their homes plan to move out. It’s a dilemma many more homeowners across New Jersey will face as storms worsen with climate change.
Belongings stacked on the streets of Manville, September 7, 2021barreled across New Jersey, Maryann Morris had just started to settle into her newly purchased home on a quiet residential block in Manville.
Seven months after the storm, Morris and her daughter, Ember, are still living in a nearby rented apartment as they wait to settle an insurance dispute and receive a government loan to start construction. Morris said her insurance company agreed to cover part of the repairs but it isn’t cooperating with the“I have run out of ways to answer my daughter about when we're going home,” Morris said. “Because I don't even know.
“Most of these [places] have flooded six or eight times, if not more, in the past. So what are we doing here?” said Cleighton Smith, Manville’s floodplain manager. “We can't just let this happen again and again.”from FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency mandate the town inspect buildings in flood zones. About 200 suffered damages to more than half the value of the property, which means any construction on them is considered new and has to be built up to code.
New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Shawn LaTourette said federal disaster relief money from Ida is starting to trickle in, which will mean help for homeowners like Morris. He said the Blue Acres program will start to help Ida victims in the coming weeks.
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