As the nation reels from the tragic floods in Arkansas on Friday that killed at least 18 people, Inga Jelescheff, senior director of operations for the Preparedness, Health and Safety Services Division of the American Red Cross, has an article on CNN.com on flood safety. The piece, “Preparing For Flood Danger In Wilderness,” offers some [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Flooding'
In Wake Of Arkansas Tragedy, “Preparing For Flood Danger In Wilderness”
June 13th, 2010 · No Comments
Tags: Flooding · Preparedness Tips · Red Cross
Arkansas Flash Floods: “Downpours + Steep Hills + Sleeping Campers = Horror”
June 12th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Andrew Revkin, author of the New York Times terrific Dot Earth blog, has a post this morning, “Downpours + Steep Hills + Sleeping Campers = Horror,” about yesterday’s flash floods in Arkansas which have killed at least 20 people with others still missing. Revkin’s post explains what happened and notes that “a network of thousands [...]
Tags: Flooding
National Media’s Lack Of Coverage Of Tennessee Floods: Good Or Bad News For Tennesseans?
May 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment
The latest issue of the Natural Hazards Center’s informative newsletter, Disaster Research, has an interesting article about the national media’s lack of coverage of the Tennessee flooding. The piece, “15 Minutes Lost: Disaster Media Disses Tennessee Flooding,” provocatively asks whether that oversight was necessarily all bad for the locals:
While disaster news coverage is often characterized [...]
“National Flood Insurance Program: Back, Not Necessarily on Track”
April 23rd, 2010 · No Comments
The current issue of the always useful Disaster Research e-newsletter of the University of Colorado’s Natural Hazards Center has an article, “National Flood Insurance Program: Back, Not Necessarily on Track,” with an update on the effort to finance and possibly overhaul the program:
Congress reinstated the National Flood Insurance Program Monday. But the beleaguered plan is [...]
Tags: Flooding · Hurricane Preparedness
In Fargo, Losing By Winning On Flood Protection?
April 5th, 2009 · No Comments
There was an interesting article last week in the New York Times, ”Permanent Flood Solutions Just Out of Reach for Fargo,” by Kirk Johnson and Monica Davey. The piece uses Fargo (and neighboring Grand Forks) as a case study to illustrate a common dynamic when it comes to disasters — attention, action and funding are often in [...]
Tags: Flooding · Uncategorized
Changing Of The Guard At “Homeland Security Watch” Blog, North Dakota/Minnesota Red River Flooding Roundup
March 24th, 2009 · 2 Comments
There’s new management at one of the most informative homeland security news and analysis resources I know of, the Homeland Security Watch blog. Jonah Czerwinski, a good friend of this blog, who wrote HLS Watch for the past 13 24 [corrected] months is taking a job in government. He has recently been replaced, quite ably, by a trio [...]
Tags: Flooding · Preparedness Resources
National Flood Safety Awareness Week Begins
March 16th, 2009 · No Comments
It’s National Flood Safety Awareness Week, and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service and FEMA are warning the public, particularly those in the Midwest, to prepare for the possibility of spring flooding. According to their Awareness Week website:
Most Americans ignore the risks of flooding, assuming they aren’t in a flood zone. The reality is, floods are [...]
Tags: Flooding