Sandy leaves behind a deluge of repair needs
Looking at the extent of storm-surge flooding along the Jersey Shore and elsewhere, some critics of the government’s coastal-development policies warned that the effects of Sandy could increase the burden of the insurance program on taxpayers, who, in the words of R.J. Lehmann of the nonprofit public-policy organization R Street, “are on the hook for the program’s $1.25 trillion in coverage, including $527 billion in coastal floodplains.”
