The coming storm in flood insurance
The name Alberto probably doesn’t mean much to someone living in Florida, but it’s a name worth knowing. He is the year’s first tropical storm, which began swirling in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean and skirted the coast more than a week before the “official” start of the hurricane season. He is a reminder of the potential threat Floridians face annually: devastation from tropical storms and hurricanes, and the resulting storm surges and flooding that can threaten people’s lives and continue to wreak economic havoc on the state’s housing market.