The Center for Planning Excellence (CPEX) and the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) recently released the Best Practices Manual for Development in Coastal Louisiana website.
What's novel about this site is that it provides strategies for creating sustainable and resilient coastal communities based on "geotypes" (pick from chenier... »read more
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Best Practices for Coastal Louisiana Manual not just for Louisiana
The Center for Planning Excellence (CPEX) and the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) recently released the Best Practices Manual for Development in Coastal Louisiana website.
What's novel about this site is that it provides strategies for creating sustainable and resilient coastal communities based on "geotypes" (pick from chenier... »read more
Fast, Perfect, and Cheap Disaster Response
"The federal government is a support role. So if you think FEMA responds to disasters or that we're in charge, first of all, we're never in charge, we're always in support, and and we work for a lot of different folks."
FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate delivers a great TED talk on the federal role in disasters, what we're doing wrong when we respond to them... »read more
NOAA Releases New Storm Surge Brochure
NOAA's National Hurricane Center Storm Surge Unit has put together a new brochure explaining the what storm surge is and how to best measure it.
There's nothing here on how to prevent losses, but the before/after shots (on page 3) should motivate some people to think about how we need to plan for it.
Added to our Sources for Outreach Materials page.... »read more
Welcome, New Hampshire StormSmart Coasts!
We at StormSmart Coasts are thrilled to announce that, thanks to a lot of work by our Granite State partners, the New Hampshire StormSmart Coasts site is now live: our eighth StormSmart state!
You can check out New Hampshire StormSmart Coasts here. Also, be sure to have a look at the accompanying New Hampshire Coastal Adaptation Workgroup blog.
Thanks... »read more
Animated Map of Extreme Weather Events
Just an animated map showing last year's extreme weather events around the country. Amusing if you don't think about it. Very worrisome if you do.
Extreme Weather... »read more
Homeowner Survey (With Prizes?)
This just in from our friends at Rhode Island Sea Grant:
Ready for big weather, floods & wind damage? Click here to take our 30-minute survey and enter to win a $500, $75, or $25 gift card to Home Depot. Survey limited to 400 participants.
We are inviting 400 Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts homeowners ages 18 and older to participate in... »read more
Making Insurance Seem Smarter
Pretty clever marketing: FloodSmart.gov should do something like this for floods and flood insurance. Note, this requires FLASH and a decent Internet connection (or a lot of patience).
Happy Friday, everybody.... »read more
New Reality: Innocous High Tide Floods Street [video]
Delaware Sea Grant has released a great short video showing how a little (offshore) storm plus a high tide can affect a seemingly safe street. Take a short break and watch. Expect a lot more like this as we see more sea level rise.... »read more
New Webinar: The Front Lines of Climate Change
Next Wednesday (November 30th) at 2PM CST the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium will be hosting what sounds like an interesting webinar on how climate change is impacting Bangladesh (for those who don't know, that nation is often cited as one of the countries most susceptible to negative climate change impacts). The talk will be given by Taibur... »read more
Army Corps of Engineers Releases Updated Sea Level Rise Procedures
The Army Corps of Engineers has updated its circular ("Sea-Level Change Considerations For Civil Works Programs") spelling out how it will approach designing its projects to address sea level rise.
If your community has any Corps projects, you'll definitely want to have a quick skim (it's shorter than it looks: most of the important stuff is in the first... »read more
