Sentences with phrase «hurricane vulnerable areas»

Residents in hurricane vulnerable areas who had a plan, and took individual responsibility for acting on those plans, faired far better than those who did not,» said Max Mayfield, director of the NOAA National Hurricane Center.

Cost comparison of storm damage, comparing inaction, various intensities of geoengineering, and improving urban structures in cyclone and hurricane vulnerable areas.

Not exact matches

And as Florida's state climatologist David Zierden, who is also a researcher at Florida State University, told me, «It's this continued development in vulnerable areas that's increasing our hurricane risk much more than climate change itself.»

Such can not be said for being able to control the movement of hurricanes so that they do not stall over vulnerable areas.

Entergy serves Louisiana, among other southern Gulf Coast states, as an energy generator and transmitter and is vulnerable to adverse weather events that may strike the area as Hurricane Katrina did in 2005, he said.

Isolating natural hurricane losses, anthropogenic hurricane losses (or maybe something in the middle, i.e., hurricanes that would have happened anyway but were a few percent more intense), fully accounting for losses in the early part of the time series record, as well as increases in socio - economic infrastructure in vulnerable areas is pretty sketchy business... this is a new approach and something which should be investigated much further.

A scenario in which a rapidly intensifying storm quickly approaches land is one of the many nightmare possibilities that keep hurricane forecasters awake at night, since a stronger storm puts more people in harm's way, and depending on a storm's forward speed, they may run out of time to evacuate vulnerable areas.

However, coastal zones, marine and wetland areas are vulnerable to climate related hazards such as storms including tropical cyclones / hurricanes; waves and storm surges, tsunamis, river flooding, shoreline erosion, and influx of biohazards such as algal blooms and pollutants.

Steve's Reply: This amounts to an argument that land use and disaster planners in hurricane - vulnerable areas should plan only for an increase at cat 4s since an increase in cat 5s was not found over the limited period of the study.

You also claim that my comment «amounts to an argument that land use and disaster planners in hurricane - vulnerable areas should plan only for an increase at cat 4s since an increase in cat 5s was not found over the limited period of the study.»

The state is in the hurricane belt and most areas are vulnerable to these storms and flooding.