Sentences with phrase «by coastal storm»

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On Sunday, 80 employees arrived from Austin, Texas capital far from the danger zone, to stock stores in Corpus Christi, a coastal city hit by the storm and by Tuesday more workers from San Antonio were moving to Victoria, another affected city.

Residents of low - lying areas in densely populated Miami - Dade County were urged to move to higher ground by Wednesday as a precaution against coastal storm surges, three days before Irma was expected to make landfall in Florida.

The most likely reason is that renters insurance is more costly in coastal areas threatened annually by hurricanes and tropical storms.

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NEW YORK — Residents in the areas of New York hit hardest by a powerful coastal storm could be without power into the early part of next week.

On topic questions included funding for items in the City's SIRR report and whether there is an alternative source for such items, whether the mayor is satisfied with the pace of City spending of federal money for Sandy relief, whether the mayor is confident of reaching his 500 construction starts and 500 reimbursement checks by Labor Day, Comptroller Scott Stringer's report on a lack of oversight on spending by the Department of Homeless Services, whether the City has the «right formula» for Build It Back, the total number of homes damaged by Sandy and when all will reached through Build It Back, how many of the 132 construction starts to date are repairs and how many are rebuilds and whether the mayor has closely examined the City's emergency management system in the context of preparing for a future coastal storm.

Rising sea levels caused by a warming climate threaten greater future storm damage to New York City, but the paths of stronger future storms may shift offshore, changing the coastal risk for the city, according to a team of climate scientists.

«Within the next 15 years, higher sea levels combined with storm surge will likely increase the average annual cost of coastal storms along the Eastern Seaboard and the Gulf of Mexico by $ 2 billion to $ 3.5 billion,» the report says.

«While sea level rise sets the conditions for landward displacement of the shore, coastal storms supply the energy to do the «geologic work» by moving the sand off and along the beach,» writes Leatherman on his DrBeach.org website.

Causing an estimated $ 108 billion in property damage, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans on Aug. 29, 2005 and flooded 85 percent of the city after its levees were breached by a surge of storm and coastal waters.

A 2008 study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development examined the risk of exposure to coastal flooding caused by storm surge for 136 port cities around the world.

WHAT CAUSES THEM: Rivers swollen by heavy rains, rising sea levels or storm surges that push seawater into coastal areas.

A computer model developed, in part, by University of Florida researchers can help coastal managers better understand the long - term effects of major storms, sea - level rise and beach restoration activities and possibly save millions of dollars.

Prompt action is needed most in Asia and Africa where, today, large parts of the coastal population are already affected by storm surge flooding.

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The findings suggest that the trees shield the coastline (pdf) by reducing the height and energy of ocean waves and offer hard evidence that deforestation could result in increased coastal damage from storms.

In coastal protection, it can mean, for instance, artificially building beaches that absorb the power of storm waves, or encouraging the natural forces that raise and extend a coastline, including salt marsh, by ensuring a supply of sediment.

Storms hitting New York and other coastal cities will be worsened by rising sea level.

Both Kelly and Chinowsky said coastal communities are significantly vulnerable to storm surge, rising sea levels and future storms — challenging geographic conditions augmented by their exposure to hurricanes and often sinking sediment beneath a city's foundation.

In a paper published recently in the journal PLOS ONE, a team of researchers from several Western institutes estimated the number of people living in low - elevation coastal zones, as well as the scale of the population at risk from one - in -100-year storm surge events, by using scenario - based projections.

The 8 inches of sea level rise produced by global warming so far has worsened the tolls of storm surges, including those caused by Hurricane Sandy, and subjected coastal cities to high tide flooding of unprecedented frequency.

Far - flung coastal communities accustomed to the Pacific Ocean's mighty onslaughts were flattened by Typhoon Haiyan, one of the most intense storms currently on record, with sustained winds ripping through their streets at around 320 kilometers per hour and gusts reaching 370 kph.

The draft report to be discussed over the coming months «is an important first step in developing a statewide framework to address the risks posed by sea level rise and coastal storms,» said Adam Freed, who serves as New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's deputy sustainability director.

Making coastal development less attractive «Governments can make development in coastal areas less attractive by requiring development projects to internalize the risks of sea level rise and storms in coastal development planning and decision making,» the task force argues.

The severe coastal flooding brought by storms in January and March has drawn renewed attention to the issue of sea level rise, and how prepared or unprepared we are for it.

Additionally, sea level rise driven by climate warming combined with coastal subsidence related to human activities increased the storm surge while urban development such as paving over grasslands and prairies are likely to have exacerbated flooding.

David Lagomasino, a remote sensing scientist at NASA's Goddard Spaceflight Center and co-investigator on the project, told Earther that the southwestern toe of Everglades National Park and Ten Thousand Islands — a vast network of coastal mangrove islets and marshes near Everglades City — were hit hardest by the storm.

These models are currently used by the insurance industry in underwriting flood and wind insurance products, by the finance industry in pricing catastrophe bonds, and by local officials in coastal communities in preparing for and responding to hurricanes and other coastal storms.

The most likely reason is that renters insurance is more costly in coastal areas threatened annually by hurricanes and tropical storms.

What's in a typical policy: Flood insurance covers direct physical losses by flood and losses resulting from flood - related erosion caused by heavy or prolonged rain, coastal storm surge, snow melt, blocked storm drainage systems, levee dam failure or other similar causes.

This quaint little coastal village lies surrounded by the Tsitsikamma National Park, which protects the rugged coastline and Storms River Mouth.

But the storm broke by late morning, and longtime golf director Mark Swift was glad to welcome me to his 18 holes — the front nine embraced by coastal forest, the back nine extending nearly to the wave - washed Pacific beach.

Another of Walker's students was Arthur Watson, now president of the Royal Scottish Academy; in the introduction to Downie's exhibition catalogue for her 2013 show Walk Through Resonant Landscape, the consequence of her Chinese residency and travels, Watson observes the contribution made by Walker to her students» ability to perceive and explore the unique landscape of Scotland and for the primacy of drawing: «With a base on the island of Tiree, [Frances Walker] ranged across the West Coast and Western Isles interrogating the coastal margins — the rhythm of pebbles across a storm beach or the fractured architecture of a rocky foreshore, meticulously recorded through a vocabulary of precise but unforgiving ink lines.»

This tweet pulls together two articles on how flood protections can backfire — one on this coastal storm, the other on redevelopment in areas around St. Louis inundated by the great Mississippi flood of 1993:

Federal taxpayers also heavily subsidize coastal development when the government pays to rebuild infrastructure destroyed in storm surges and picks up much of the bill for private losses not covered by insurance.

Here's the storm's limited coastal surge potential (the maps are helpful but are still listed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as experimental).

With the anniversary of Hurricane Sandy's coastal assault here, The New York Times and other media have run a batch of helpful articles tracking how coastal communities are, and are not, responding to the lessons from the extraordinary surge raised by that storm — a 1 - in -700-year event, by some calculations.

Exploding coastal development as well as higher seas and more powerful storms brought by climate change will exacerbate an already dire situation.

Without them the coastal people were simply overcome by the storm surge.

They will do that by taking a close look at restrictions on building in hazardous coastal areas, making coastal structures more storm - proof, protecting and enhancing coastal wetlands and other ecosystem features that can buffer storm impacts, and creating financial incentives to promote protective behaviors.

On the same day as the attacks, a paper by James E. Hansen and other climate experts was released arguing that carbon emissions are transforming our world far more quickly than expected, in ways that may inundate coastal cities and cause storms more horrendous than any in modern history.

If burning coal causes the flooding of coastal fishing villiges or, as I believe, the flooding of entire coastal regions by violent storm and encroaching seas — ala New Orleans and Bangladesh — people are not only displaced, they die.

Sea - level rise threatens the long - term viability of island communities by exacerbating the impacts of coastal storms, flooding infrastructure and ecosystems, and contaminating freshwater supplies with seawater.

The ecosystem services provided by coastal habitats are especially vulnerable to sea - level rise and more severe storms.

In the Northeast, «Communities are affected by heat waves, more extreme precipitation events, and coastal flooding due to sea level rise and storm surge,» for example, while in the Southeast and Caribbean, «Decreased water availability, exacerbated by population growth and land - use change, causes increased competition for water.

«This research is of particular importance as it can help Pacific coastal communities prepare for the effects of changing storm regimes driven by climate oscillations like El Niño and La Niña.

The obsession with average sea level rise compared with other coastal hazards (increases in water levels driven by storms as well as tsunamis) is a good illustration of how the focus on climate change is distorting assessments of risks and hazards.

Ninety - two percent of coastal national park land will be affected by the rising seas and increasing storms of our changing climate.

With coastal vegetation's improvement of water quality by filtering becoming more evident, it is also necessary to point out how young fish very often use these nursery areas to thrive; storms are buffered and even how many other (species such as manatee) are dependent on these habitats.

For example, restricting development of land in flood plains and in coastal locations affected by hurricane storm surge is an effective adaptation strategy regardless of how climate changes.