Flooding, Flooding Everywhere – Do Canadians Have Insurance For It? – National | Globalnews.ca

http://globalnews.ca/news/3425571/flood-insurance-canada/From New Brunswick to Quebec, through Ontario, Manitoba and to British Columbia, Canadians have been coping with flooding or bracing for torrential downpours.

And yet, flood insurance is still a relatively new concept in the Great White North.

Overland flood insurance, which covers damage from water flowing above ground and seeping in through windows, doors and cracks, only became widely available in the last couple of years, according to Blair Feltmate, head of the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation at the University of Waterloo.

Read full story here: Flooding, Flooding Everywhere – Do Canadians Have Insurance For It? – National | Globalnews.ca

 

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