Florida Flooding Leaves Homeowners with NFIP Questions

Tina Baker has lived in her Shore Acres neighborhood in St. Petersburg for more than four years.

She’s watched as her neighbors homes have flooded several times during that period, but her home has never flooded, while she’s been there, until Hurricane Idalia.

‘I’ve stood here and watched the water go up and up and up, you know, and right under their cars and right into their houses,’ said Baker.

She has flood insurance through the national flood insurance program, but was concerned about filing a claim because she didn’t want her rates to go up.