Why can't the cost of flood insurance rise? | Felix Salmon

Ben Berkowitz has a big report on the the National Flood Insurance Program ? something which is a veritable bucket of fail. In a nutshell, it undercuts private insurers and therefore is the only game in town; it insures only a small minority of homeowners; and it loses gobs of money. In September 2005, the NFIP was $1.5 billion in hock to the federal government; that number has now ballooned to $21 billion, and is certain to rise further.

There?s a simple answer to all these problems: let the NFIP raise its rates. And I don?t understand why it?s not being allowed to do so. If the rates rose, then that might allow private insurers into the flood-insurance game, giving consumers a choice and helping to get the word out about how insuring your home against flood damage is a really good idea. The NFIP could become profitable, and thereby start paying back all the money it owes. And while homeowners are quite price sensitive when it comes to flood insurance, the fact is that so few homeowners take out flood insurance right now that the number would be unlikely to fall dramatically if rates went up to a reasonable level.

The NFIP, then, is in a fundamentally much better place than, say, the Post Office, which is also losing billions of dollars but which doesn?t seem to have any way out of its present quandary. And I?m still very unclear on what the problem is here ? what vested interests are preventing the NFIP from raising its rates. It?s not that people couldn?t afford flood insurance if the rates went up ? the rates are very low right now, and in any case most people aren?t paying them anyway, with 95% of homes uninsured.

Are the 5% of homeowners who take out this insurance people with particular political clout, fighting hard and successfully to prevent even a modest increase in their modest premiums? Is the political opposition coming from legislators who don?t want to vote for anything which smells as though it might be related to global warming? Or is this just general low-level government dysfunction? Whatever it is, the problem seems to reside, weirdly, in the Senate rather than the House ? a plan to allow NFIP to raise its rates has already passed the House by a vote of 406 to 22. If that lot can come to bipartisan agreement, what could possibly be the holdup here?

Source: http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/08/30/why-cant-the-cost-of-flood-insurance-rise/

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Tourism concerns take center stage in N.C.

Even if Hurricane Irene had missed North Carolina completely, the damage it caused farther north would have still imperiled the last hurrah of summer on North Carolina beaches ? and the millions of dollars at stake.

The storm that made landfall at Cape Lookout on Saturday and then steamed up the East Coast left behind hundreds of thousands without power and damage that's still being tallied, much of it in the mid-Atlantic and northeastern states that supply a huge percentage of the tourists who come to the Outer Banks and other North Carolina beaches each summer.

"If your house was damaged, you might not want to go on vacation right away to the Outer Banks," said James Kleckley, director of the Bureau of Business Research at East Carolina University and an expert on the region's tourism-driven economy. "That's going to have an impact."

And as Gov. Beverly Perdue and other officials offered assurance that the state's beaches are ready for Labor Day, there were signs along the coast that the hangover from Irene will persist for at least the next few days, ranging from mostly empty beaches to an advisory telling people on the Outer Banks to boil drinking water.

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The heart of North Carolina's coastal tourism economy is the Outer Banks, which stretch from the Virginia state line to tiny Ocracoke Island. And the moneymaking pulse of the region is Dare County, which includes the towns of Kitty Hawk, Kill Devil Hills and Nags Head, where restaurants and shops line N.C. 158 from end to end and rental houses cluster along the beaches.

These beaches are North Carolina's top tourism destination, worth about $834 million in business last year. On Monday there were worrying signs that Irene may have hobbled hopes for a lucrative Labor Day.

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At the Comfort Inn on the beach at Nags Head, the hotel's 105 rooms were booked solid for the week before the storm, said front desk manager Kelly Smith. But over the last 24 hours they received 150 cancellations for the coming week. She estimated that the hotel will only be about two-thirds full over the traditionally busy Labor Day weekend, when rooms go for $160 a night.

Many of the cancellations are coming from northern states affected by Irene, she said.

"They're saying they're canceling because their power is off and don't know when it's coming on," Smith said. "Or they're saying their power is off, they had some damage and they don't know if they can afford the vacation anymore."

Rental properties outnumber hotel rooms more than 2-to-1 in Dare County, and some owners in that sector were having the same woes as the Comfort Inn.

Mike Johnson received cancellations on two of his three rental properties, both from families in New Jersey who had planned to spend Labor Day on the beach.

"I lost a lot of business," he said. "We got very little damage compared to other homes. One family told me they were worried that things wouldn't be open, and asked about the condition of the beaches. I told them outside of Hatteras, everything really was open for business. The beaches are fine. But they were worried."

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The beach communities faced another problem Monday when the water utility that serves the length of the Outer Banks issued a boil-water advisory, which Dare County spokeswoman Kathryn Bryan said was a precautionary measure prompted by extensive flooding.

Lee Nettles, managing director of the Outer Banks Visitors Bureau, said he hadn't known about the water advisory before emphasizing that the area reopening to tourists had 70 percent of the available rooms in the Outer Banks.

"It obviously isn't ideal. It isn't going to help us," Nettles said. "But I'm hopeful still that the word will get out that a lot of our businesses are open."

In coastal areas south of the Outer Banks, where tourism is also an economic mainstay, workers scrambled Monday to get hotels, restaurants and beaches ready for Labor Day.

In Emerald Isle, workers hauled off more than 150 barnacle-encrusted car tires that washed up from an offshore artificial reef during the storm. In nearby Atlantic Beach, the Sheraton hotel was closed to visitors as about 75 workers from a disaster restoration company labored to get it ready for the weekend rush.

Nearby at the Crab Shack restaurant, where the force of waves from Irene's sound-side surge slammed into the low-lying building, the plywood subfloor bowed up several inches off its joists. A black line marked the wall a foot high where water flooded the building.

Brothers Eric and Craig Guthrie tore out the carpet while they waited for an insurance adjuster to arrive. They said it was the sixth time the restaurant has flooded since their father opened the place 35 years ago.

"There was Bertha, Fran, the two after," said Craig Guthrie, struggling to remember all the storms that had flooded the business. "Then there was Ophelia. That one tore off the whole back dining room."

He predicted they would miss Labor Day, but they still planned to rebuild.

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Reassuring tourists that the state's beaches are ready has been a priority of state and local officials even before the extent of the damage is fully known. Perdue, in her tours of areas affected by the storm, has stressed that the cleanup won't affect vacationers.

"We feel like the folks around the country understand our beaches are open and North Carolina is open for tourism," Perdue said in Rocky Mount on Monday.

But many of the beaches along the Outer Banks were practically deserted Monday. Hatteras Island remained accessible only by ferry because of damage to N.C. 12, the only road connecting it to the mainland.

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Mandy Evans, 24, was one of the few people walking along the beach in Nags Head, looking for seashells. Like many Outer Banks residents, Evans depends on tourism: She works in a gift shop along N.C. 158, and was troubled to see so few people out on the sand.

"If the tourists don't come, we're in trouble," she said. "We have to get the word out that the beaches are fine. Come down."

The focus on making sure tourists feel comfortable may seem odd to anyone unfamiliar with the lopsided economy of the Outer Banks. Research by Kleckley shows that fully 50 percent of all jobs in the region are concentrated in three sectors: hotels and food service; retail, from grocery stores to souvenir stands; and real estate rentals and leases. By contrast, those three sectors account for just over 20 percent of overall jobs in North Carolina.

"The tourists are the lifeblood of most things there," he said. "They're really geared toward bringing that non-resident to the area and taking care of them."

Associated Press writers Michael Biesecker in Atlantic Beach, Gary D. Robertson in Rocky Mount and Emery Dalesio in Raleigh contributed to this story. Breen reported from Kill Devil Hills.

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44319425/ns/travel-news/

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To the surprise of many people, hospice- a word often associated with death and dying- is really about quality of life. Hospice strives to honor an individual?s values, beliefs, and wishes until life?s journey ends. Whether due to unfavorable perceptions or inaccurate information, it is estimated that more than 50 percent of the people who may qualify for hospice never give it consideration. Hospice is a choice worth considering. And, by the way ? it?s FREE.

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s1rk3ls ? Cell Phones Have Changed The Mode Of Communication

Probably nowadays the majority of middle age generation remember the times when there were no mobile phones, but only beepers, which were used to get messages from people who had called. However, with the development of the mobile phones, the concept of communication changed greatly.

These days, with the ability to use cell phones you can be in touch with anyone in the world round the clock. You have an opportunity to conduct your business more effectively, stay in touch with your family and friends all the time. Now being unreachable has become a part of the past because you can easily use cell phone to reach and be reachable.

Nowadays with international roaming agreements there are no boundaries for you because you can easily utilize your cell phone almost anywhere in the world without any problems. Thanks to all these advances, mobile phone market has been quite competitive and dynamic one. There are a lot of various service providers that are competing with each other in order to give you the best rates so that you can talk cheaper. The majority of them launch campaigns that allow you to talk free for certain periods of time. Nowadays making international calls has become cheaper compared to the past and sometimes the use of your cell phone could be cheaper than you landline.

The other competition in the field of mobile phone is surely by the mobile phone manufacturers. These days, they make better mobile phone as well as more flashy ones on an annual basis. Frankly speaking, with your mobile phone you can communicate with your friends over 100 hours of stand-by time on the majority of cell phone without recharging. As well, you have an opportunity to use the internet with EDGE or GPRS technologies, use Bluetooth device or USB interface to uplink to the computer and other equipment. As well, you can use them to send videos, images, sound recording and many others with your mobile phone. It is necessary for you to know that the competition is so great on the mobile phone market that you could find mobile phone that function as a digital camera. The majority of modern mobile phones come with at least 3.2 Mega pixel digital lens as well as there are cell phones that come with 5 and even 8 Mega pixel resolution. Apart from this, there are some cell phones with full Walkman capabilities while using others you could easily change tracks with the flick of your wrist. On the market you are able to find cell phones that can measure your heart beat as well as the amount of calories that you burn during the workout. And thus, there is a great variety of various cell phone accessories on the market today.

Modern digital technologies have completely absorbed the world and our minds. Can you just think of our life without all those computers, automated machines, and especially cell phones? In addition practically all the companies are dependent on mobile communication. Cell phone has become our inseparable part, and when there is no signal ? it is a serious problem for many of us. To guarantee a proper signal delivery one can use a booster available on this gsm amplifier online spot. Those who are searching for this equipment, are welcomed to this phone 3g booster site ? the very place on the Internet to buy the devices.

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CNOOC 1H profit up 51 pct, says sorry for spill (AP)

SHANGHAI ? Chinese offshore oil and gas producer CNOOC Ltd. said Wednesday that rising output and higher prices helped boost its profit by 51 percent in the first half of the year.

Meanwhile, the Beijing-based company apologized for oil spills in China's Bohai Bay linked to an oilfield operated by partner ConocoPhillips.

"The Bohai Bay oil spill incident has sounded the alarm: safety and environmental risks are ever present, and we could never be too aware of the crisis and our responsibility," CNOOC's chairman Wang Yilin said in a statement.

State-run CNOOC has said relatively little about the spills, deferring to ConocoPhillips as operator of the wells in the affected Penglai 19-3 oilfield. The U.S. oil company is facing possible legal action and widespread criticism for the spills that began in June and are due to be cleaned up by the month's end, though it says damage to the environment has been minimal.

CNOOC, or China National Offshore Oil Corp., said its output rose 13 percent in the first half of the year from a year earlier to 168.7 million barrels of oil equivalent. Its net profit was 39.3 billion yuan ($6.1 billion).

CNOOC, which has no major refining operations, relies mainly on oil production for its profits. During the first half of the year, it benefited from a surge in crude oil prices. But prices have fallen back to about $85 a barrel from a peak of $115 a barrel in May, on expectations a weaker U.S. economy may sap demand.

The company's average realized oil price was US$108.16 per barrel in January-June, nearly 41 percent higher than the same period a year earlier. Its gas price rose 15.5 percent, CNOOC said.

CNOOC acknowledged concern over dwindling resources within oil-scarce China and said it would continue to expanding its overseas assets, including in shale oil and gas and oil sands.

"We believe the cost of unconventional energy will come down and play a more important role in world energy supply following technology breakthroughs in the future," it said.

CNOOC said the oil spills in Bohai, which began in June and covered 840 square kilometers (324 square miles), were a severe accident.

"We all deeply regret this," it said. "We truly realized that the company needs to constantly improve and enhance its health, safety and environment management along with its rapid development."

Over the weekend, the government said nine oil leak sites were spotted, but ConocoPhillips said it believed the seeps were not new.

The oil spills have deepened concern over the marine environment in the Bohai, a major fisheries region off China's northeast coast that already is suffering heavy pollution from industry and agriculture. ConocoPhillips said its tests of oil particles collected from shorelines found that almost all were from fuel oil.

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