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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3j1PiDq7Yo
Now you've seen it all. Happy Friday.
(Want to get the game? It's available... »read more
NOAA Shares Tools for Understanding and Addressing Coastal Inundation
The NOAA Coastal Services Center, as part of their Digital Coast program, has assembled a Coastal Inundation Toolkit.
The new "Visualize" section allows users to learn how different types of visualizations can help communities understand their inundation risks and vulnerabilities. The "Picture It" page offers tools and local examples of how photos, maps,... »read more
San Francisco Struggles to Protect and Adapt to a Changing Shoreline
As an El Niño winter tears away its shoreline, San Francisco tries to figure out how or whether to protect homes, a $220 million wastewater treatment plant, and a world-famous road.
The question facing at least eight local, state and federal agencies boils down to this: With California officials expecting climate change to raise sea levels here by... »read more
If You Were to Raise the Floor of a Basketball Court, You’d See a Lot More Dunks
PBS NewsHour tries for a sports metaphor when describing sea level rise. Watch the video... »read more
Growing Agreement that Taxpayers Shouldn’t Subsidize Risky Coastal Development
From today's New York Times:
Insurance companies got out of the business of writing flood insurance decades ago, so much of the risk from sea level rise is expected to fall on the financially troubled National Flood Insurance Program, set up by Congress, or on state insurance pools. Federal taxpayers also heavily subsidize coastal development when the... »read more
Why Communities Should Consider Total Cost of Ownership When Making Decisions
(From FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate):
http://vimeo.com/37815679
National Leadership Speaker Series: FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate from U.S. Green Building... »read more
QUICK-TIP: Using Google Earth to View FIRMs
Need to quickly check to see which flood zone a property is in? Have Google Earth installed on your computer (it's free, though you may need administrative rights to install it on your computer)? FEMA has a page explaining how to get those pesky FIRMs into your mapping system. Read about it here:
Using the National Flood Hazard Layer Web Map Service (WMS)... »read more
Updated FEMA Hazard Mitigation Planning Training
Related to yesterday's post, FEMA is now offering an updated 12 hour on-line training for hazard mitigation planning.
The goals of IS-318, Mitigation Planning for Local and Tribal Communities (also referred to as Hazard Mitigation Planning) are:
Assist participants in undertaking the hazard mitigation plan development process. This plan will meet the... »read more
FEMA Updates Guide for Retrofitting Residential Structures
An update to a handy manual: the word from FEMA:
The third edition of this document is intended to further aid homeowners in selecting and successfully executing a flood retrofit on their home. Engineering design and economic guidance on what constitutes feasible and cost-effective retrofitting measures for flood-prone residential and non-residential... »read more
Want to Learn About Online Mapping with MORIS? CZM Will Bring the Training to You
From the always useful CZ-Mail:
The Massachusetts Ocean Resource Information System, or MORIS, is a web-based coastal mapping tool that makes coastal and ocean data available to the public—allowing people to interactively view data, create and share maps, and download data for use in a Geographic Information System (GIS). While designed for coastal... »read more
