Using the same statistical tools that urban planners and insurance companies use to predict disasters such as earthquakes and 100 -
year floods based on prior patterns, Hines forecast a 100 - year blackout that would knock out 186,000 megawatts of power.
Not exact matches
After being astonished by the stunning images of
flooding in Texas, Kenan Pala — the 13 -
year - old founder of Kids4Community, a San Diego -
based non-profit — decided to take action.
Your first stop should be The National Climate Assessment, an interagency effort by the U.S. federal government, puts out a report every few
years, assessing the likelihood of
floods, fires, heat waves, hurricanes, and other climate -
based events.
Direct program expenses, consisting of other transfers / subsidies, Crown corporation expenses and departmental / agency expenses, increased by $ 3.3 billion on a
year - over-
year basis, with most of the increase attribtuable to the booking of the $ 2.8 billion liability for the Alberta
floods.
Lastly, roughly 90 % of Christians and Christian
based religions believe it was truly a world wide
flood, that actually happened as is to be taken literally, and happened, at the very furthest back, 4,000
years ago.
@@@@@ WIMPY WASP explained it when earthquakes and
floods and famine hit really hard then most crazy broke really religious people who don't have a job go crazy like you.you religious people don't give back in my last three
years I given back too helping the poor more then $ 20,000 dallors of my own money how much you so called chicken heads crazy religious people given out of your own income wait you crazy religious people got ta pay your light bill.by the way I own my own commercial health
base buisness in Arizona.you still working for a pay check I write employees paychecks.
creationism is far from an adult theory, its a child like story with fantasy elements
based on myth and NO science, we always hear about these crazy people trying to outlaw evolution.But has you stated we have billions of
years of evidence, thanks for helping us evolutionists out, unfortunately you have none, just a book, no science, no artifacts, no garden of eden, no bones of adam or eve or even the snake for that matter, no ark, no proof of a biblical
flood, no proof of a created world by a higher power, no nothing..
The ancient Chinese legend passed down through generations could be
based on a catastrophic Yellow river
flood that we now know happened 4000
years ago
A national
flood warning system
based on radar, established two
years ago by Britain's Meteorological Office, is failing to predict major downpours and flash
floods.
Hidden object games have
flooded PC and mobile platforms in recent
years, with mouse and touch
based interfaces being the perfect medium for pixel hunting items on an overly cluttered screen.
VW Heritage, a car firm
based in the south of England, got a taste of this first hand recently when their UK workshop was
flooded on New
Year's day: In the weeks leading up to New
Year 2014 our home county of Sussex saw some of the heaviest rainfall in decades.
But it manages to set itself apart from the
flood of new Tegra 2 -
based tablets hitting the streets this
year in a couple of ways, some good and some not so good.
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.
A series of «mistakes» we're made several
years back with their loyalty program and they opened the
flood gates to the higher tiers of loyalty to people who were not «loyal» Delta flyers, i.e. Amex, which I am a card holder and use to gain many miles since I am Atlanta
based.
Thomas Hopper: ACORN Tactics is a turn
based tactical battle game in which alien blobs from space invade the earth 100
years after a disaster
floods most of the planet.
Among the highlights of its first eight
years are: Bernd Alois Zimmermann's harrowing Die Soldaten, in which the audience moved «through the music;» the unprecedented six - week residency of the Royal Shakespeare Company in their own theater rebuilt in the drill hall; a massive digital sound and video environment by Ryoji Ikeda; a sprawling gauzy, multi-sensory labyrinth created by Ernesto Neto; the event of a thread, a site - specific installation by Ann Hamilton; the final performances of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company across three separate stages; the New York Philharmonic performing Karlheinz Stockhausen's sonic masterpiece Gruppen with three orchestras surrounding the audience; WS by Paul McCarthy, a monumental installation of fantasy, excess, and dystopia; a sonic environment that blurred the boundaries between artist and audience created by the xx; an immersive Macbeth set in a Scottish heath and henge by Rob Ashford and Kenneth Branagh; tears become... streams become..., a genre - defying collaboration between artist Douglas Gordon and pianist Hélène Grimaud, which
flooded the Armory's drill hall with an installation of water, light, and music; and HABEAS CORPUS, a performance and installation by Laurie Anderson
based on the story of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee that examines lost identity, memory, and the resiliency of the human body and spirit.
Based on the current number of fires burning in the west, the obscene number of tornadoes this
year, so far, the massive
flooding that continues in our midwest region, the only assurance I have our current administration is paying attention is in their ability to announce a region officially declared a disaster zone.
The so - called 100 -
year flood is likely to become more frequent.4 Because transportation planners use such events to determine infrastructure needs, future plans
based on the past are likely to become less reliable — and planners will need to develop models that reflect the effects of climate change.7
The station's exposure to coastal
flooding is projected for the
years 2050, 2070, and 2100
based on the National Climate Assessment's midrange or «intermediate - high» sea level rise scenario (referred to here as «intermediate») and a «highest» scenario
based on a more rapid rate of increase.
The shipyard's exposure to coastal
flooding is projected for the
years 2050, 2070, and 2100
based on the National Climate Assessment's midrange or «intermediate - high» sea level rise scenario (referred to here as «intermediate») and a «highest» scenario
based on a more rapid rate of increase.
Observational data, evidence from field experiments, and quantitative modeling are the evidence
base of the negative effects of extreme weather events on crop yield: early spring heat waves followed by normal frost events have been shown to decimate Midwest fruit crops; heat waves during flowering, pollination, and grain filling have been shown to significantly reduce corn and wheat yields; more variable and intense spring rainfall has delayed spring planting in some
years and can be expected to increase erosion and runoff; and
floods have led to crop losses.4, 5,6,7
Riebsame's (1988) review shows California's Folsom and Oroville Dams were confidently designed for 500
year Reservoir Design
Floods (RDFs)
based on the Dec. 1937 rainfall.
The
bases» exposure to coastal
flooding is projected for the
years 2050, 2070, and 2100
based on the National Climate Assessment's midrange or «intermediate - high» sea level rise scenario (referred to here as «intermediate») and a «highest» scenario
based on a more rapid rate of increase.
Trends in the peak magnitude, frequency, duration and volume of frequent
floods (
floods occurring at an average of two events per
year relative to a
base period) across the United States show large changes; however, few trends are found to be statistically significant.
It would do you well to check up on why wet - lands need to be dried and
flooded on a regular
basis... the inflow of sediments and the build - up of toxic algaes and nitrous and associated elements in wetlands demand attention be paid to flush these systems out at regular intervals... you may remember the damaging blooms of blue - green algae back some
years ago because of a sudden release into the river system of infected stored - water.
(4)
Based on hysterical and false predictions from warmists, insurance companies increased their rates for hurricane insurance (wind,
flood) in Florida over the past 4
years and made a bundle.
Future 100 -
year flood zones for New York City
based on the high - estimate 90th percentile NPCC2 sea level rise scenario.
We calculated the population in the
flood plain
based on the distribution of coastal population per 1 m elevation increment (Table 2) assuming that all land below the computed surge heights belongs to the 100 -
year flood plain.
«On average, subsidence affects as many properties in the UK on an annual
basis as
flood and can result in a similar number of insurance claims each
year.
We are now seeing
flood rates being charged
based on «
Flood Zone Mapping», and / or losses in the previous
year.
Flood plain maps show every locale in Massachusetts and list
flood plain areas for 10 -
year, 30 -
year, 50 -
year, and 100 -
year periods
based on the land and slope elevation, as well as your proximity to sources of water.
Flooding • CoreLogic estimates flood losses in the U.S. this year at approximately $ 10.67 billion, based on various flooding and storm events recorded in the National Climate Data
Flooding • CoreLogic estimates
flood losses in the U.S. this
year at approximately $ 10.67 billion,
based on various
flooding and storm events recorded in the National Climate Data
flooding and storm events recorded in the National Climate Data Center.
Breckinridge Capital Advisors, a Boston -
based firm specializing in fixed - income investments, is already accounting for those risks internally: Last
year, it downgraded a borrower in Florida due to climate risk, citing the need for additional capital spending because of future
flooding.