Community Resilience – Lessons from Katrina
This report was published in 2008. While there are problems with some of the assumptions, New Orleans is no better prepared today than in 2008 because none of the sociological factors have changed –...
View ArticleHurricane Katrina – Was Flooding Really a Surprise?
(Hurricane Katrina resources) One of the post-Katrina myths is that no one expected the city to flood. It is true that no politician ever used the f-word when calling for evacuations. This was the...
View ArticleChildren and Disasters
National Commission on Children and Disasters. 2010 Report to the President and Congress. AHRQ Publication No. 10-M037. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. October 2010. An...
View ArticleCoast Guard Report on Response to BP Spill
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY For the nation, the Deepwater Horizon oil well blowout and release was unprecedented in scope,scale, and duration. While the response system established by the Oil Pollution Act of...
View ArticleThe Worst Case in Disaster Planning
http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2011/04/we_have_to_imagine.html Good points in the editorial. I also think that we should look at the worst cases. However, politicians, and the disaster planners...
View ArticleBlowing the Mississippi Levee – 2011
Missouri’s TRO against the Corps to prevent the blowing of the levee on the Mississippi in May 2011: complaint; answer; and district court opinion (upheld by the circuit court – Missouri v. U.S. Army...
View ArticleEvacuation Roulette
The Isaac track continues to veer toward the mouth of the Mississippi and through New Orleans. The US model puts it right on that track. The average of the other models pulls it east, but those are...
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New York City Plan for Climate Change
Read the Report On June 11, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced “A Stronger, More Resilient New York”, a comprehensive plan that contains actionable recommendations both for rebuilding the communities...
View ArticleEvacuation Risks on the Louisiana Coast
Kent, Joshua D. “Assessing the Long-Term Impact of Subsidence and Global Climate Change on Emergency Evacuation Routes in Coastal Louisiana,” 2012. Subsidence forecast models for coastal Louisiana were...
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