Sentences with phrase «more damaging floods»

Emanuel hopes that the study's results will help city planners and government officials to decide where and how to rebuild and fortify infrastructure, as well as whether to recode building standards to stand up to stronger storms and more damaging floods.

Not exact matches

While strong winds can rip shingles off roofs and tear down power lines, flooding often causes more widespread, costlier damage — and can be more dangerous for humans.

«We have assumed more damage and obstruction to the drainage and flood - control systems than was the case yesterday,» he said in a note to clients.

Damage and flooding was reported in some coastal communities that saw more than 500,000 people evacuate ahead of the storm.

Rainfall from Harvey caused massive flooding that displaced more than 30,000 people and damaged or destroyed more than 200,000 homes and businesses, NOAA said.

While many people will point to Hurricane Katrina and the 2005 damage done in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast as a model for what we may expect from Harvey, the 2016 floods in Baton Rouge may be more realistic.

Many questions demand answering but one thing is clear: the provincial government, together with the municipalities, needs to take much more serious steps than it has in the past to implement both flood minimization and flood damage mitigation strategies.

Here's a roundup of Hurricane Irma - related damages, flooding, schools, outages and more in Brevard County.

The push for the money comes after Gov. Andrew Cuomo late last year suggested more money for flood - damaged communities could be included in a potential special session of the Legislature.

«This makes the systems smarter and more resilient in everyday use but also means that extensive damage to one system can cause problems with others - which needs careful planning to avoid critical loss of services, such as communications in flood - hit areas at times when they are especially needed for example.

Cuomo returned to two, flood - damaged shoreline communities on Lake Ontario today, promising local officials and residents more state help in dealing with their problems.

With Trump taking the US out of the Paris Climate Agreement, New York can expect warmer temperatures, greater flooding and more damage from storms, and a whole host of other issues.

With flooding continuing in Houston, plus more than a foot of rain likely still to come through Friday, predictions of damage have ranged as high as $ 100 billion, and Wall Street and Washington are braced for the repercussions of the costliest U.S. natural disaster since Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

Homeowners suffering flood damage from Harvey are more likely to be on the hook for losses than victims of prior storms — a potentially crushing blow to personal finances and neighborhoods along the Gulf Coast.

I invited New York Times reporter Kirk Semple and WABC - TV's Joe Torres to refute the accusations that their stories about Phoenicia did more damage to the town than the flooding.

A new report says Vermont is on target to close the vast majority of Irene - related cases by late summer, two years after flooding from the tropical storm damaged more than 7,000 homes.

The damage from Tropical Storm Irene and the subsequent flooding has affected more than 100,000 acres of farmland in the state.

The Army Corps of Engineers argues that this spring's heavy rains prompted the flooding, but Godfrey told them that the region has received more rain in several other years when there was no flood damage.

Long Island's public schools, after more than $ 80 million spent on cleanup, repairs and renovations from damage caused by Superstorm Sandy, still lack adequate safeguards against flooding and power losses that caused massive disruptions of classes five years ago, educators said.

Officials in the Greene County town of Ashland continue talks with FEMA over reimbursement for repairs to their water supply system; Hudson Valley Bureau Chief Dave Lucas has more along with an udate from FEMA regarding flood damage recovery throughout the Catskills.

U.S. Rep. Claudia Tenney said the flood damage totaled more than $ 14.4 million in her district, including at least $ 7 million in Oneida County.

New York officials say two more counties that sustained extensive shoreline damage from Lake Ontario flooding last year are now eligible for federal recovery aid.

«Anything would help,» Clark said, when asked about the possibility of state aid, adding that his business, which did not have flood insurance, has suffered more than $ 50,000 in damages.

Months of rainstorms led to heavy flooding in seven Midwestern states, including Illinois, Minnesota, Indiana and Missouri, resulting in 24 deaths and more than $ 6 billion in damage.

More than 20 stairwell covers have already been installed in lower Manhattan as part of the New York City subway system's Super Storm Sandy recovery efforts,» said Fortune, «With the RTP, we are capable of controlling the vastness of danger, damage and even inconvenience to the public due to flooding events.»

The team also used a separate computer model developed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to estimate the costs: more than $ 250 million in building and crop damage in the flooded area.

When hurricanes strike, flooding causes more damage than the wind, and kills more people.

Failure to build strong enough levees — and fix known flaws in them — was blamed for catastrophic flooding in New Orleans, Mississippi and Alabama after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, which killed more than 1,800 people and caused more than $ 81 billion in damage.

Farmers remember the burden of past regulations and worry more about those than the damage of droughts, floods or erratic weather.

Damages from extreme events like floods are even more relevant than the mean sea level itself when it comes to the costs of climate impacts for coastal regions.

Does it make more sense to pursue policies that will further flood the STEM labor market and do even more damage to the incentives for domestic innovators and entrepreneurs?

We do not need less dialogue, we need more, centring on the question of how we should best prepare for extreme flooding in the future»; they propose that, in future, flood mitigation measures should be based on four pillars to keep damage levels as low as possible and to distribute the burden fairly:

Climate change combined with building on floodplains has set Europe on the path to more flood damage in the coming decades

According to his analysis, floods killed more people than any other type of disaster — 26 per cent of all deaths — and caused the most damage — 32 per cent of the total bill.

Damage from floods across Europe is projected to more than double, from a 113 % average increase if warming is kept to 1.5 °C, to 145 % under the 3 °C scenario.

That flooding, combined with tornadoes spurred by the same storm system, killed more than 50 people and caused almost $ 2 billion in damage.

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 risk.

Fourteen extreme weather and climate events in 2011 — from the Joplin tornado to hurricane flooding and blizzards — each caused more than $ 1 billion in damages.

More than 5,000 people have been evacuated from flood - damaged homes in northern Gaza and at least one person killed in what the United Nations called «a disaster area».

The flooding, the worst in 50 years, has already claimed more than 280 lives and, according to a Businessweek report, caused over $ 5.1 billion in damage, disrupted operations at 930 factories, and will shave at least 1 % off the country's annual GDP.

All told, more than three million Colombians — about seven percent of the total population — were displaced or suffered significant damage to their homes in 2011 alone as a result of flooding, according the World Bank.

Mexico suffered its worst floods on record in mid-September when tropical storms Manuel and Ingrid converged from the Pacific and the Gulf of Mexico, killing more than 150 people and causing damage estimated at around $ 6 billion.

The number of heavy precipitation events will continue to increase in the assessment area, and impacts from flooding and soil erosion may also become more damaging.

Yet there had been even more flood damage the winter before, when there was no El Niño.

The flood killed more than 20 people in Missouri and Illinois, caused several hundred million dollars of damage, and left millions of tons of debris in its wake.

When he does this, it becomes apparent the river is becoming more chaotic and unpredictable and that floods are more frequent, higher and more damaging than they once were.

Professor Rob Lamb of the JBA Trust and Lancaster University said: «Each of these steps reflects different sources of uncertainty, but we find overall that there is a substantial chance of more properties having been placed at flood risk because of past greenhouse gas emissions, leading to potential damages that could be part of the losses incurred in 2013/14.»

According to the Insurance Council of Australia (ICA), more than 43,000 claims for flood damage have been lodged, with a reserved claims value of $ 2 billion.

Furthermore, attributing the flooding and damages to climate change add more complexity.

The teachers spent the day cleaning flood damaged items, shelving, walls, and more.