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'We thought we were safe': Kentucky disaster shows how US is ill-prepared and under-insured for devastating floods

'We thought we were safe': Kentucky disaster shows how US is ill-prepared and under-insured for devastating floods

[html]When Bob and Debbie Smith signed up for flood insurance years ago, they never expected the storm that transformed the little river next to their backyard into a raging, muddy torrent. They never imagined that they and their cat would need to be rescued from their front porch by a neighbor with a boat as the floodwater reached up to their chests.[/html]

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