The Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) began taming the Colorado River in Texas in the mid-1930s. Its goals were to control flooding and use the river as a productiveresource for water and hydropower. The chain of six dams that make up the HighlandLakes successfully accomplished these ...
Ice storms in Texas, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee. Severe earthquakes in Iran, Argentina, Turkey, Asia, New Zealand, Japan and the Philippines. A volcano that all but eliminated Tonga from the world’s maps. Severe flooding in the mid and south east USA, Mexico and South America, Europe, ...
Flood Warning Issued In California: On Wednesday, March 15, 2023, the National Weather Service has issued a high-danger warning of heavy rain over California. Further flooding and mudslides are expected in areas already saturated by weeks of back-to-back rainfall, with major rivers overflowing in...
An example of a flooding event exacerbated by impervious surfaces is Hurricane Harvey in Houston, Texas [66, 67]. Between 1992 and 2010, Harris County lost almost 30 percent of its wetlands due to urbanization [68]. This wetland loss was not solely due to parking, but the construction of ...
If an ESD cell is sufficiently triggered by EOS or fast edge transient, then this can result in the flooding of carriers from ESD cell into the device substrate, which then can cause a latch up. Most latch ups are due to ESD cells or parasitic pathways turning on. An ESD cell is a ...
A spokesperson of the Justice Department commends the decision of the Supreme Court, saying that the rule “is about public safety, which helps law enforcement solve crimes and reducing the number of untraceable ghost guns flooding the community.” ...
Coastal flooding in Scituate (MA): a FVCOM study of the 27 December 2010 nor’easter J. Geophys. Res., 118 (2013), pp. 1-16 Google Scholar Benetazzo et al., 2013 A. Benetazzo, S. Carniel, M. Sclavo, A. Bergamasco Wave–current interaction: effects of the wave field in a semi...
it increases the number of risk factors outside of its control. Tsunamis in Japan shut down an auto assembly plant in Ohio when essential parts couldn’t be shipped; severe flooding in Thailand delayed the manufacture of computers for the US market when hard drives failed to appear. Ethical ...
Democratic online donations are flooding ActBlue The platform raised more than $27.5 million Sunday afternoon. Jessica Piper07/21/2024, 7:28pm ET ActBlue, the major Democratic fundraising platform, is blowing up this afternoon. Since Biden’s announcement, the platform — which inclu...
Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida on September 26, 2024 in almost the same spot and followed the same path into Georgia as Hurricane Idalia in 2023. Gulf Coast flooding in Florida was basically the same. However, Perry went through the eyewall of both storms. It was heavily damaged...