At least 10 people have lost their lives from Florida to South Carolina during the storm, most of them in vehicle accidents, but only three deaths have been blamed on Irma directly so far. Authorities in Georgia said Monday that the storm killed at least two people in that state, while Ab...
Floridacategorizes areas into different evacuation zones, with Zone A typically being the most vulnerable to flooding during a storm to Zone F typically being the last to evacuate. Florida residents are urged to check if they live in an evacuation zone by using a map on the Florida Division...
Debby, which weakened from a tropical storm to a tropical depression Thursday afternoon, is slamming the Mid-Atlantic and the Northeast with heavy rain on Friday. Debby made landfall in Florida as a Category 1 hurricane on Monday and crawled up ...
Torrential downpours have flooded huge swaths of the Midwest and the Southeast since last week. Rain over the weekend triggered flash floods in several states, includingTennessee,Kentucky,Texas, Oklahoma,North Carolina, andFlorida. In some states, more thana month’s worth of rainfell in a day....
SEATTLE - Flooding coursed over roads, inundated farmland and curtailed access to a Native American reservation in Washington state on Sunday as the Pacific Northwest slowly recovered from a series of storms that have engulfed the region with rain and snow. The swollen Chehalis River was expected...
Power returns to some Florida customers as Debby moves northeast As of Monday evening, 146,034 customers are without power in Florida, according to the latest update from a U.S. power outage map. This marks an improvement from Monday morning, which saw nearly 300,000 customers without power ...
The team also hopes to roll the map out to other US counties and additional social media platforms “in the near future,” and is looking to use it as a platform to push out alerts from emergency officials. With Hurricane Irma set to make landfall in Florida today, ...
Increasing flooding hazard in coastal communities due to rising sea level: Case study of Miami Beach, Florida. Ocean Coast. Manag. 126, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2016.03.002 (2016). Article Google Scholar Li, S. et al. Contributions of different sea-level processes to...
On Sept. 11, it developed in the Gulf of Mexico. The storm formed on the same day as the Sept. 11 attacks, so flights were cancelled across the United States. On Sept. 14, Gabrielle hit Florida, shuttering flights for ...
Coastal buildingsMiami-dade countyStorm surge flooding assessmentVulnerabilityHurricanesMiami-Dade County is highly susceptible to storm surge flooding. The current Federal Insurance Rate Map (FIRM), used to determine flood insurance rates for buildings, is an excellent resource yet lacks attributes that ...