Dave Mosher
In 2017, Hurricane Harvey, a powerful Category 4 storm, dumped a record-breaking 51 inches of rain on parts of Texas, putting large parts of Harris County and the city of Houston underwater. More than 150,000 homes in the Houston area were flooded during Harvey. But about half of those ...
In California, it's not just building out, that includes building in. There are too many units within existing neighborhoods that are right now being left idle because the regulatory prospects of navigating the hurdles to obtain it development permit are simply too difficult, and I think if we...
Southern Texas, meanwhile, could experience triple digit temperatures, well above its average temperatures in the lower 80s for this time of year. Thumbnail courtesy of Paul Knightly/Getty Images:1252758912-170667a. This article originally appeared ...
1. The lower court erred in applying a bright-line flooding mitigation exception to the Texas Constitution’s requirement of compensation for the taking, damaging, or destruction of private property. 2. The lower court erred in applying a bright-line “police power” exception to the Texas Con...
"These are storms of catastrophic severity, and we're marshaling the full resources of the federal government to help our fellow Americans in Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee and all of those wonderful places and states in harm's way," Mr. Trump said. ...
With record floodwaters devastating much of southeast Texas, more than 450,000 people are likely to seek federal aid in recovering from Harvey, the storm that has battered the Gulf Coast for days, Brock Long, the director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said on Monday. The agency...
While the increase in days of nuisance flooding is particularly pronounced in Annapolis and Baltimore, other cities seeing more high-tide flooding include Atlantic City, New Jersey; Charleston, South Carolina; Norfolk, Virginia; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Port Isabel, Texas; and San Francisco...
Things are particularly bad in the Southwest, and this is making life very difficultfor many ranchers… The worst-hit section of the country, with the highest levels of drought, are in cattle country: West Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Kansas. That’s led to really damaged, ...
create a continuous map of displacement rates across the region (Fig.2). Using recent DEMs (see section,The ADvanced CIRCulation Model) to create the baseline approximation for 2020 surface elevations, projected elevations for year 2100 were calculated using a linear forecast, shown in Eq. (1):...