AP analysis: FEMA rejects appeals worth $1.2B over a decade

FILE – In this Sept. 23, 2009 file photo, workers adjust a drill being used to strengthen the Howard Hanson Dam near Ravenswood, Wash., after problems with the dam were discovered following record rainfall in January, 2009. “FEMA staff told us, `We understand why you did what you did, and it was a reasonably prudent thing to protect the public,’” said Mark Isaacson, King County’s wastewater treatment director who at the time led its flood control division. But “it didn’t fall within their definition of imminent flooding.” (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

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