FEMA created Advisory Base Flood Elevation (ABFE) maps to show a more current picture of flood risk for coastal New Jersey and New York communities after Hurricane Sandy. For most communities, ABFE information has now been replaced by preliminary Flood Insurance Rate Maps as the most recent flood...
flood, or tornado came about in part because it turned out america doesn’t have all that many nuclear wars—and the equipment and supply stockpiles and disaster-response experts at fema’s predecessors were useful for something other than the apocalypse. fema was the result of jimmy carter’...
1 The range of eligible projects might include retrofitting public buildings against hurricane-force winds or seismic damage, acquiring and relocating properties out of a flood plain, elevating structures in a flood plain, flood-proofing public buildings, managing vegetation to mitigate against wildfires,...