“…in 2008, FEMA decided that the practice is hazardous, apparently because glass walls could become projectiles in a hurricane. If FEMA doesn’t allow hotels to have indoor pools, Patricia 
Grand’s president says it would be devastating to the hotel’s winter business. “
All the people who come during the weekends in the wintertime would not come back anymore if they don’t have anywhere to go and have a swimming pool available to them,” said Frans Mustert, Oceana Resorts.
Hotel operators and the Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce have managed to hold FEMA off for two years while trying to get the agency to change its mind.
Dean said they’ve tried to point out that hotels in other beach cities have similar pool enclosures and they haven’t been targeted by FEMA. That argument didn’t change the agency’s mind. “Everyone we’ve talked to, in Washington and here at home agrees, this makes no sense, we need to get this law changed,” Dean said.
Congress is working on a rewrite of the Flood Insurance Program, to include a change in the pool enclosure law.
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