Texas — FEMA released revised preliminary Flood Insurance Rate Maps, or FIRMs, for review by both residents and business owners in all communities and incorporated areas of Lafourche Parish on ...

The new preliminary maps come after Terrebonne and Lafourche officials pushed ... inaccurate because they disregarded flood protection from parish levee systems. Because none of the levees are ...

RACELAND ó The Lafourche Council voted for a second ... Lorraine voted unsuccessfully to accept the advisory flood-elevation maps. The parish’s municipalities are not affected by the decision ...

Suhayda – who has in the past worked with Terrebonne, Lafourche, Cameron and Plaquemines parishes – is currently working on building an appeal for flood maps for St. Tammany Parish.

TERREBONNE PARISH, La. — The Terrebonne Parish Council adopted new FEMA flood zone maps on Wednesday, and the changes take effect Sept. 7. According to Terrebonne Parish Planning and Zoning ...

OTHER MANDATORY EVACUATIONS IN ZONE ONE OUTSIDE THE FLOOD GATES. WE ALSO JUST LEARNED THAT MANDATORY EVACUATIONS WILL BEGIN IN LAFOURCHE PARISH, STARTING AT 5 P.M. AND EVACUATION SHELTER WILL BE ...

The process of updating the maps takes so long in part because of public hearings and appeals, and because city-parish engineers initially disagreed with some FEMA findings. FEMA updates flood ...