Years in the making, the draft FEMA floodplain maps rely on higher rainfall estimates and more advanced modeling techniques, ...
When Camp Mystic wanted to build in Central Texas areas considered high risk on Federal Emergency Management Agency flood insurance maps, it did what many property owners do: It hired engineers to ...
FEMA’s mapping alongside Cypress Creek, where the camp expanded in 2018, is 15 years old and represents a rough estimate of flood risk. It relies on imprecise topography maps, and the rainfall data it ...