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In this March 22, 2014 photo, Charlie Corson walks through the mud outside his flood-damaged home, unsafe to occupy since it was destroyed by the September 2013 flood, in Lyons, Colo. Thousands of Coloradans could face major cost increases for their flood insurance, just as many are trying to decide whether to rebuild or move on after the devastating flooding. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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Bob Brellenthin of Pahlen Realty stands at a downtwon Roseau, Minn. bridge over Roseau River on Thursday, March 20, 2014. He knows firsthand the effect the new, higher national flood insurance premiums have had on his business and the difficulty his customers have had selling their homes because of the changes in the National Flood Insurance Program. (AP Photo/Bruce Crummy)
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Bob Brellenthin of Pahlen Realty stands in a residential area of Roseau, Minn. on Thursday, March 20, 2014. No Minnesota community has been affected more by the nationwide spike in flood insurance premiums than the far northwestern city of Roseau, where the specter of rates rising by as much as $400 to a monthly home payment has just about dried up the local housing market. Nearly the entire community lies within the Roseau River flood plain, hard-hit by a major flood in 2002, so mortgage lenders require purchasers to take out flood insurance. (AP Photo/Bruce Crummy)
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FILE - This June 18, 2008 aerial file photo shows a break in the Indian Grave levee caused by flood waters from the Mississippi River north of Quincy, Ill. A rate-relief law signed Friday, March 21, 2014 by President Barack Obama will soften the blow for those who were hit hardest by rate changes in the National Flood Insurance Program. An Associated Press analysis shows that half of the nearly 49,000 Illinois policies through the program are paying subsidized rates set to rise as those discounts are shaved or eliminated. The fallout appears profound in Illinois, partly because of the state's proximity to the Mississippi, Ohio and Illinois rivers and their tributaries. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty, File)
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FILE - In this June 19, 2008 file photo, floodwaters from the Mississippi River surround a grain elevator in Meyer, Ill. after a levee failed, flooding the farming community. Policyholders who have long enjoyed subsidized rates under the debt-ridden National Flood Insurance Program will see premiums rise steadily in the coming years, despite a rate-relief law signed Friday, March 21, 2014 by President Barack Obama that will soften the blow for those who were hit hardest. The fallout appears profound in Illinois, partly because of the state's proximity to the Mississippi, Ohio and Illinois rivers and their tributaries. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)
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FILE - In this March 31, 2010 file photo, water encircles homes from the flooded Pawtuxet River in West Warwick, R.I. In 2012, Congress passed a law requiring approximately 1.1 million policyholders nationwide to start paying rates based on the true risk of flooding. Nearly 7,000 Rhode Island homeowners and businesses could see their flood insurance premiums rise annually by double digit percentages as government-backed insurance subsidies are scaled back, according to an Associated Press analysis of data from the National Flood Insurance Program. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
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Katherine and Robert Calhoun stand on a bridge overlooking Ecorse Creek behind their Dearborn Heights, Mich., home on Thursday, March 20, 2014. Living so close to the creek in a flood plain has been costly — not the least because it's flooded twice and once caused $19,000 worth of damage they had to pay after their insurance claim was rejected. When the Calhouns bought the house 22 years ago, they paid $300 annually for flood insurance. That bill is now $800. It will only get worse for the Calhouns and people around the nation when federal flood insurance premiums go up soon as decades-old subsides through the National Flood Insurance Program start to end. (AP Photo/Corey Williams)
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Kelley McClurkin, talks about how rising flood insurance costs will impact her bakery and deli in Findlay, Ohio on Thursday, March 20, 2014. Her bakery, which sits near a creek that flows into the Blanchard River, has been surrounded by water several times but flooded just once - in 2007 when the worst flooding in nearly a century left behind $100 million in damage. It ruined McClurkin's ovens, display cabinets and walk-in coolers. (AP Photo/John Seewer)
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In this Oct. 31, 2012 aerial photo, a New York Air National Guard helicopter with Gov. Andrew Cuomo aboard flies over the ocean side community of Breezy Point in the Queens borough of New York to survey the damage caused by Superstorm Sandy. While President Barack Obama signed a law Friday, March 21, 2014 that will delay steep increases to flood insurance paid by many, nearly 60,000 policyholders in New York state are among the 1.1 million nationwide who will see their federally subsidized flood insurance premiums rise as part of changes to the National Flood Insurance Program, according to a review of federal data by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
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A Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force P-3C Orion takes off from the Royal Australian Air Force Pearce Base to commence a search for possible debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, in Perth, Australia, Monday, March 24, 2014. Satellite images released by Australia and China had earlier identified possible debris in an area that may be linked to the disappearance of the flight on March 8 with 239 people aboard. (AP Photo/Paul Kane, Pool)
