Rafael is winding down after having become the farthest west tracking Major Hurricane in the Atlantic basin in any November on record. Rafael's moisture is funneling into Louisiana this weekend, enhancing flooding rains across this region. NHC: Quote: ...Rainfall indirectly associated with the mois...
sparked by greed and short-term profit. This murder of the natural world has accelerated in the last decade to depths unheard of. The process has been deliberate, often systemic, and conducted from on-high to down-low, with special interests flooding the state with dark money, givento...
If you’re lucky enough to live near or visit a coastal area, it is evident that with great beauty comes great risk—in the form of natural disasters. Hurricanes, flooding, and storms are just a few of the natural hazards that put coastal communities at risk. But coral reefs are a natu...
low-lying islands along Florida’s Gulf coast. Both subspecies burrow under sand and tidal beach wrack along the beach, dune, coastal berm, and dry coastal hammock, thus their primary habitats are at risk from flooding, storm surge, saltwater intrusion, and inundation from sea level rise (U....
FLOODING. DAMAGE TO BUSINESSES AND RESIDENCES MAINLY BY FALLING BRANCHES AND TREES. INITIAL PROPERTY DAMAGE ESTIMATED $15 MILLION. UP TO 70,000 CUSTOMERS WITHOUT POWER AT THE HEIGHT OF THE STORM. ST. LUCIE 2 2 UNKNOWN TWO INDIRECT DEATHS AND TWO INDIRECT INJURIES. A 58-YEAR-OLD INDIAN ...
By 2050 some communities (e.g., Key West) are expected to have nuisance flooding during more than 100 days per year. The City of Miami Beach installed 20 pumps in 2015 to mitigate nuisance flooding during king tides. Figure F8ig.ureFo8r.eFcoarsetcaosft o"fki"nkgin"g"tidtiedsesaanndd...