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The flood has been giving so much warning to Horry County, South Carolina, that officials published a detailed map of places that flooded in 2016 and warned those same places were going underwater again. One man had time to build a 6-foot-high (1.8-meter) dirt berm around his house. Th...
(Click on the image to visit the interactive map.) Sobering Statistics The consequences of geospatial data gaps can be devastating. When Hurricane Harvey dumped up to 47 inches of rain in Harris County, Texas, in 2017, over two-thirds of the homes that flooded were outside FEMA’s Special...
"We’re one of three swift water rescue teams that have been staffed here in Sonoma County," said Lowenthal. The potential for flooding and landslides also prompted a pre-emptive shutdown of several North Bay roadways, including Bolinas Road in West Marin, from Azalea Hill to Highway 1....
Officials said at least eight died in New Jersey and three in Pennsylvania's suburban Montgomery County; one was killed by a falling tree, one drowned in a car and another in a home. An on-duty state trooper in Connecticut was swept away in his cruiser and later taken to a ...
“I expected to see a lot more frustration with folks,” Larimer County Sheriff Justin Smith told reporters. “They have been up there since Wednesday or Thursday without an ability to come down, many of them without water and very limited on food overall.” ...
VIEW: Live traffic map Last month, heavy rains led to flooding that closed I-94 in Detroit for days. Flooding also temporarily closed parts of every Detroit freeway after about 6-7 inches of rain pummeled the area. Along with flooding freeways, many homes were hea...
Map of the study area, Karachi, the most populated city of Pakistan. Karachi is administratively divided into districts as well as union councils. It can be noticed that most of the built area of the city is enclosed in ridges and piedmonts of the Kirthar ranges on the west. While on th...
Ventura County is bracing for heavy rain as California is expected to be hit by the bomb cyclone. Officials ordered evacuation warnings on the north end of the Bobcat Fire burn scar area. This includes the Juniper Hills and Valyermo communities. Authorities are keeping a close watch on the Lak...
The flooding event data have been used in ArcGIS to generate the map of exposure, which displays the areas of inundation and frequencies of exceedance. The maps for SSP 4.5 (Figure 3) and SSP 8.5 (Figure 4) show that there will be a large proportion of urban area being threatened by coa...