Sentences with phrase «flood maps in»

Flood insurance policies have standard rates across the country; your level of flood risk — determined by the flood maps in your area — and the amount of coverage you purchase determine your rates.

Your level flood risk, as determined by FEMA - drawn flood maps in your area, and the amount of coverage you purchase determine your rates.

It's a simple, but powerful project to generate crowdsourced flood maps in real time.

The battle raging over federal flood maps in Central New York hits a deadline today.

... Nassau County got new flood maps in 2009, using lidar data and a new storm surge analysis.

Not exact matches

«The bright line on a map is an illusion,» he said, particularly in flat places like Houston, where a slight change in flood waters can result in far more widespread inundation.

But a race that political watchers in both parties had expected to go the Democrat's way quickly became a nail - biter, with razor - thin margins in key states turning into a Trump tide that flooded the electoral map.

The satellite - generated maps, developed by the International Rice Research Institute in collaboration with sarmap and the Department of Agriculture - Philippine Rice Research Institute (DA - PhilRice), show that flooding has affected about 1,800 hectares of standing rice crop across 15 municipalities and that the typhoon badly damaged buildings where harvested rice may have been stored.

I did see the picture of the pitch in the middle of the prison when trying to match up Google Earth and some old maps (which put the Manor Ground immediately southwest of the prison, and, by inference, the Sportsman a tad southwest of that and nearer to the canal and drainage ditches that, I assume, were the source of the flooding, but we are only talking a difference of field or two at most; and if you have primary sources, I'll bow to those).

wolf's «magic map» at cnn is no match for snow's «swingometer» on bbc... and frankly i'm getting a bit of a headache from all the flashing images and moving text they have flooding the screen (though in terms of election night broadcasting embarrassment, the holograms are still no match for jeremy vine's antics earlier this year...)

As The Wave newspaper of Rockaway has been extensively examining (see here and here), those changes in the NFIP, in combination with soon - to - be adopted new FEMA flood maps, will produce dramatically higher flood insurance rates and require many homeowners to purchase flood insurance for the first time.

The Syracuse Common Council is urging New York state to allow a property tax exemption for low - income homeowners in the newly redrawn federal flood maps.

According to documents and interviews, state, local and federal officials had been aware for years that the crucial maps of flood risks were inaccurate; some feared they understated the dangers in New York City's low - lying areas.

Sentinel R1 was originally planned to be axed after the Afghanistan draw - down, but its usefulness (in flood mapping, Libya and Mali) has extended its service life, with it now planned to get a maritime mode upgrade to its already highly capable radar with a contract set to be signed in spring of 2015.

Molinaro also said he's been hard at work creating maps for people who are interested in Governor Andrew Cuomo's recently announced buyout program for homeowners in flood zones, and said he is crafting a needs statement for help for the island's two hospitals in the wake of Sandy.

Question topics included the estimated time for completion of all of the Sandy recovery home rebuilding, the implementation of new flood maps, whether de Blasio's reported future endorsement of Hillary Clinton is tied to a longterm need for federal government assistance, whether in Secretary Castro's view the City could do better on any element of Sandy recovery efforts, communicating an increased sense of urgency to City agencies, significant variations in the reported number of Build It Back applicants, how the City will continue its increased rate of repairs, details on the construction firms used in the program and praise for developer Gerry Romski.

FEMA will enact new flood insurance maps in November, which add 876 properties in Syracuse to the flood zone.

The city of Syracuse will file a challenge to maps proposed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency which, if approved, would drive up flood insurance costs dramatically for homeowners in some of the city's poorest neighborhoods.

She noted that following Hurricane Sandy, there are issues «pending in Washington» like addressing FEMA flood maps and reforming the flood insurance program, things that Grimm was working on and that need to be addressed by the next congressperson, she said.

Some residents in the surrounding area are now going to have to get flood insurance while properties in the more affluent neighborhood of Meadowbrook were taken off the maps.

Cayuga County's flood map was updated in 2007, Lynch said.

That rule's particularly important in the Southern Tier where historic flooding in 2011 caused a redrawing of the floodplain maps.

The Oakland airport is in the flood zone, according to maps city officials submitted.

The measurements of CO2 concentrations dissolved in the water compared to the satellite map of vegetation showed a very strong correlation between the intensity of CO2 outgassing and the area of flooded vegetation and floating aquatic plants.

Their results, published this week in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, demonstrate that landscape vulnerabilities can be mapped ahead of time to help communities prepare for extreme flooding.

The country's future is wet, according to the latest models, and even in typical conditions it is prone to flooding (see map).

NEW ORLEANS — National flood maps are underestimating the risk for tens of millions of people in the United States.

The sample maps showing Philadelphia and Kansas City outline the 1 in 100 - year floodplain derived from the model, which simulates flooding in every river basin in the continental U.S. Darker blues indicate deeper water.

The study, published today in the journal Environmental Research Letters, is based on a new high - resolution model that maps flood risk across the entire continental United States, whereas the existing regulatory flood maps produced by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) cover about 60 percent of the continental U.S.

An analysis of flood claims in several southeast Houston suburbs from 1999 - 2009 found that the Federal Emergency Management Agency's 100 - year flood plain maps — the tool that U.S. officials use to determine both flood risk and insurance premiums — failed to capture 75 percent of flood damages from five serious floods, none of which reached the threshold of a 100 - year event.

In several other studies, including a number that examined flooding in the Clear Creek watershed, Blessing, Brody, Sebastian and SSPEED colleagues have shown that other approaches, like distributed hydrologic modeling and probabilistic flood plain mapping, can be far more predictive of flood damages and flood risIn several other studies, including a number that examined flooding in the Clear Creek watershed, Blessing, Brody, Sebastian and SSPEED colleagues have shown that other approaches, like distributed hydrologic modeling and probabilistic flood plain mapping, can be far more predictive of flood damages and flood risin the Clear Creek watershed, Blessing, Brody, Sebastian and SSPEED colleagues have shown that other approaches, like distributed hydrologic modeling and probabilistic flood plain mapping, can be far more predictive of flood damages and flood risk.

Although the flood maps are designed to represent a small area, Hill believes this work could be replicated throughout Oregon and other states in the Pacific Northwest.

The revised maps are the first update in the coastal areas of Maryland in 25 years and confirm both increases and decreases in the 100 - year flood elevations over this period of time.

The flood ratio map for Hurricane Ike (2008) shows areas in yellow and orange that approach or exceed 10 - year flood peaks at their respective stream gauge stations.

The researchers compiled urban development, flood hazard and census data and overlaid it on a map of the U.S.. Although their analysis shows that Americans in general have become more aware of the risk of floods over the 10 - year study period, the researchers identified several U.S. hot spots where urban development has grown in coastal flood zones including New York City and Miami.

«MODIS has made an enormous difference in our flood mapping,» says Brakenridge.

For the hydrological modelling of the Thames river catchment done at CEH we showed that the changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation caused higher peak 30 - day river flow, while flood risk mapping revealed a small increase in flood risk for properties in the Thames catchment.

And while snow total maps are de rigueur for any weather site worth its road salt, it's the coastal flood impacts that could also go down in the record books and drive major damage.

The flood this time around goes back to Long and some shady development deals, and one has to wonder why God cares so much about the material possessions of a bunch of well - to - do people in a gated community when there's so much of more vitally important things going on in — well, throw a dart at a map and you'll hit something.

The controls are also well mapped on the XBox One controller as you run, jump and avoid some nasty obstacles like fireballs, rockets, floods and all sorts of threats in order to get to the next level in this death - trap dungeon.

CEFCU uses a third - party company specializing in the review of flood maps prepared by FEMA to determine if your home is located in a flood area.

The agency is charged with updating flood maps every five years, although they have sometimes fallen behind in that schedule.

The areas all have 1 - percent - annual - chance (1 % chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year) for a flood event or shallow flooding and marked on a Flood Insurance Rate Map and designated as:

In response to these developments, the US Federal Emergency Management Agency mapped out special flood hazard areas (SFHA), which are those that may experience flood or mudflow based on a number of factors, including erosion levels.

The Base Flood Elevation, or BFE shown on the Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) for high - risk flood zones indicates the water surface elevation resulting from a flood that has a one percent chance of equaling or exceeding that level in any given year.

Banks use third party companies who specializes in the reviewing of flood maps prepared by FEMA to determine if your home is located in a flood area.

If a change in flood insurance maps brings your home within a flood hazard area after your loan is made, your lender or servicer may require you to buy flood insurance at that time.

But the NFIP is now in debt, so reform efforts have phased out federal discounts for policies in high - risk zones, re-drawn flood hazard maps, and raised premiums over time.

A detailed explanation to navigating FEMA's Flood Insurance Rate Maps, which are a factor in determinig the price of flood insurance, can be found here.

Various flood zones are mapped in each panel and each falls into one of three categorical areas below: