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Popular Mechanics
June 19, 2008
Emily Gertz |
As Flood Waters Rise, Geeks Aim to Save Midwest With 3D Rig Digital models of possible flood outcomes might just help prevent developers from building in the most vulnerable spots around the country's biggest and most dangerous river.   |
Geotimes
August 2006
Megan Sever |
When Levees Fail Many of the levees in the United States were built more than a century ago to protect farmland, and have been negligibly, if at all, maintained. For New Orleans, such a lesson came too late, but the city can still plan for the future. |
Geotimes
September 2005
Naomi Lubick |
Water Covers New Orleans As Hurricane Katrina dissipated on its way toward the northeastern United States on Tuesday, the threat only grew for this and other Gulf towns. Monday afternoon's seeming reprieve in New Orleans evaporated as two breached levees flooded the city. |
Popular Mechanics
June 21, 2007
Jancy Langley |
Army Corps Turns to Google for Post-Katrina Answers in N.O. An important new report on the strength of levees on the Bayou turns up a tech-savvy feature: interactive maps. |
BusinessWeek
June 9, 2011
Peter Heller |
The Mississippi River Flood and the Katrina Risk New Orleans and Baton Rouge are one breached levee away from Katrina-like devastation. Can the Army Corps of Engineers save them? |
Popular Mechanics
March 2006 |
Now What? The lessons of Katrina |
Geotimes
November 2005
Naomi Lubick |
Louisiana's Marshland Mess Even before the past season's devastating hurricanes, Louisiana's wetlands were in rough shape. More than a century of building dams, levees and canals to control the Mississippi River changed the wetlands, limiting sediment and leading to soil compaction from the loss of vegetation. |
BusinessWeek
August 20, 2007
Aston & Arndt |
If The Levees Fail In California... Officials are relying on a groundbreaking threat-assessment model devised by a team of 300 top scientists and engineers organized after Hurricane Katrina. |
Wired
December 22, 2008
David Wolman |
Before the Levees Break: A Plan to Save the Netherlands Global warming is a cause for serious concern in low-lying countries. The Dutch aren't waiting for a catastrophe; they're taking measures to solve the problem now. |
Geotimes
December 2006 |
Top Natural Hazards News Stories of 2006 Looking Into Landslides... Getting Ready for the Rumble... Levee Concerns Abound... Spreading Wildfire... etc. |
Popular Mechanics
January 28, 2009
Erik Sofge |
Engineers Give U.S. Infrastructure a 'D', Seek $2.2 Trillion in Stimulus: ASCE 2009 Infrastructure Report Card The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has just released a summary of its 2009 Infrastructure Report Card, and the news is bad. Here is a look at the report and the most pressing projects for the current administration |
Scientific American
October 24, 2005
Mark Fischetti |
Flood Control Protecting against the Next Katrina: Wetlands mitigate flooding, but are they too damaged in the gulf? |
The Motley Fool
September 4, 2007
Selena Maranjian |
Don't Wait for the Flood If you want insurance coverage against floods, you need to get it sooner than you think. |
Popular Mechanics
September 25, 2008
Erik Sofge |
Green Tech Plans Hide Obama-McCain Disparity on Infrastructure Infrastructure in the United States, from the bridges we commute across to the dams we've learned to ignore, is in a state of disrepair. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2008
Wilson & Keliger |
Flood or Hurricane Protection?: The New Orleans Levee System and Hurricane Katrina Why was the New Orleans levee system so vulnerable to failure in Hurricane Katrina? |
Popular Mechanics
September 4, 2008
Mike Allen |
After Midwest Floods & Gulf Storms, Beware of Flooded Used Cars Floods in Iowa this spring left rural states submerged, and auctioned vehicles from that disaster could reach car buyers. |
AFP eWire
February 21, 2012 |
Deep Roots What happened in the community of Cedar Rapids is a testament to the passion of many charitable organizations willing to get people the support they needed immediately and for years to come. |
Geotimes
December 2005
Donald C. Swanson |
Don't Try to Fool Mother Nature Protecting and maintaining a city on a delta is confronting the dynamics of sediment and water responding to gravity, a basic force in the universe. Gravity-driven phenomena dominate the delta environment and are major guns in Mother Nature's arsenal. |
The Motley Fool
September 14, 2005
Mann & Hanson |
Prepare for Your Insurance to Triple Money is difficult to talk about in the wake of a disaster, but insurance companies aren't evil for not wanting to pay more than their fair share. Any attempt to make them pay for damages for which they're not contracted will have disastrous consequences. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2007
William Sweet |
Protecting The Big Easy From The Next Big One U.S. Army engineers face New Orleans's dilemma. |
Geotimes
August 2007
Megan Sever |
Restoring the River Since Katrina struck, one thing has become clear, researchers say: Restoration of the natural system is of paramount importance to saving New Orleans in the long run, and the time to act is now. |
HBS Working Knowledge
November 6, 2012 |
Stop Talking About the Weather and Do Something: Three Ways to Finance Sustainable Cities How do we ensure that our cities are resilient in the face of inevitable future weather events like Hurricane Sandy? The key to infrastructure resilience may lie in the unglamorous corner of financial products, including insurance. |
Popular Mechanics
May 2008
Erik Sofge |
Rebuilding America Special Report: How to Fix U.S. Infrastructure American infrastructure is in trouble, from collapsed bridges to leaking dams. Here are some fresh ideas, smart engineering and new technology that can be used to fix it. |
Entrepreneur
December 2005
Scott Bernard Nelson |
A Rising Tide Though costs will likely go up in the wake of the recent hurricanes, flood insurance is still a life preserver worth considering. |
IndustryWeek
May 1, 2007
Jonathan Katz |
Facilities: Storm Preparation With the storm season upon us, manufacturers should prepare for the worst. |
Foundation News & Commentary
Nov/Dec 2005
Allan R. Clyde |
A Conversation with Ben Johnson An interview with the Greater New Orleans Foundation President and CEO on the status of the foundation, race and class issues, and the opportunities facing philanthropy in the rebuilding of this community. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
Mar/Apr 2014
Michael C. Patton |
Disclosure Duty What information should landlords provide? |
Fast Company
November 2013
Jeff Chu |
Against The Tide The Dutch have a growing army of engineers, designers, and scientists who work with water, as the Netherlands built itself into the world's premier laboratory for how to tame the rivers and the seas. Today, the country's ideas and expertise may be its most valuable export. |
BusinessWeek
May 25, 2011
Duane Stanford |
Trade Slows as the Mississippi River Floods Delivery times for shipments of grain and other valuable commodities are slowing as floods raise the level of the Mississippi. |
Popular Mechanics
January 27, 2009
Erik Sofge |
State of a Nation: The Latest Report on America's Infrastructure A large portion of the Obama Administration's proposed economic stimulus package is supposed to be slated for revitalizing infrastructure. |
Scientific American
February 2006
Mark Fischetti |
Into the Breach The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) inspection team observed a number of different failure mechanisms that led to dozens of breaches throughout the levee system of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. |
Science News
February 17, 2007 |
Timeline: From the February 13, 1937, Issue Great Model Shows Engineers How to Prepare for Floods... Robot Mathematician Solves Nine Simultaneous Equations... |
| This Old House |
Hurricane Insurance Update A natural disaster is bad enough without a insurance disaster on top of it. Here are seven suggestions for proper coverage. |
Geotimes
January 2005
Naomi Lubick |
Grand Canyon Floods On Nov. 21, the Department of the Interior approved a release of water from the Glen Canyon Dam in an attempt to rebuild the beaches and other sedimentary environments. |
Searcher
June 2002
Irene E. McDermott |
Where was I? Maps on the Web There is a tremendous amount of spatial data on the World Wide Web: multitudes of maps; armfuls of atlases; cartloads of cartography. Enough to keep a map nerd like myself clicking and dreaming for years. Maps on the Web are designed for many uses, and many of them are free... |
This Old House
November 2007
Deena Bustillo |
Are You Sure You're Insured? Many people are shocked by the mishaps their insurance policies don't cover. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2005 |
Laissez les Bons Ingenieurs Rouler In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, engineers are orchestrating the drying out of power plants, the rebuilding of power transmission systems, and the reconstruction of levees. |
BusinessWeek
September 19, 2005
Grover & Palmeri |
The Day California Cracks Budget crises have left the state ill prepared for a big quake. The good news is, with the feds scaling back, communities are finding ways to fend for themselves. |
American History
August 2007
Chris Chandler |
The Whole World Is Listening: WHAS Radio Coverage of the 1937 Ohio River Flood WHAS radio's eight-day round-the-clock coverage of the disastrous 1937 Ohio River flood set the standard for crisis news reporting. |
