• At the time, it was the costliest tropical cyclone on record, later tied by Hurricane Harvey of 2017. (wikipedia.org)
  • Countless communities across the United States have felt firsthand the often deadly and devastating impacts of hurricanes, from Hurricane Katrina, which left 1,833 people dead after slamming into the Gulf Coast in 2005, to Hurricane Sandy in 2012 and hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria in 2017-some of the most costly tropical storms on record-along with many others. (americanprogress.org)
  • Even as incidents like the Arkema chemical plant explosion driven by Hurricane Harvey have grabbed headlines ( and led to a climate justice movement in the courts ), the Trump administration has repealed federal safeguards against chemical disasters at tens of thousands of the largest, most polluting hazardous industrial facilities in the nation. (progressivereform.org)
  • The first major storm was Hurricane Harvey that drenched Houston and parts of Louisiana with record amounts of rainfall of 64.58 inches. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Fugate said changes in the earth's climate may not be increasing the number of storms, but their features are getting more intense - highlighted by the record rainfalls from Hurricane Harvey in Texas and Irma holding maximum sustained winds of 185 miles per hour for more than 24 hours. (flaglerlive.com)
  • Hurricane Harvey, followed quickly by Irma, left in its wake upended lives and enormous property damage, estimated by some at $150-180 billion. (indymedia.org)
  • Coming immediately after Hurricane Harvey, Irma is increasing attention to the relationship of severe weather events to climate change. (duke.edu)
  • When Houston providers were hit by Hurricane Harvey last month, they experienced limited power outages thanks to investments -smart meters and a fault location, isolation and service restoration system-made after Hurricane Ike in 2008. (duke.edu)
  • And Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich) and Valerie Brader write in The Hill that "as Hurricane Harvey has taught us, making sure our energy resources are safe, secure and plentiful should not be a partisan issue. (duke.edu)
  • Last summer when Hurricane Harvey displaced tens-of thousands of residents, he used his sign language skills to communicate with eleven evacuees at shelters. (texas.gov)
  • And recently, on August 27, 2020, Hurricane Laura lashed Louisiana with 150-mile-per-hour winds, killing six people and registering as one of the most powerful storms on record to strike the United States. (americanprogress.org)
  • 2 All in all, as of September 23, 2020, the Atlantic hurricane season has produced 23 named storms-nearly double the season's long-term average and exhausting, for only the second time in history, the National Hurricane Center's list of 21 names. (americanprogress.org)
  • 3 Yet the 2020 hurricane season represents uncharted territory, as storms are expected to continue making landfall in communities that are still struggling to contain COVID-19 outbreaks, maintain social distancing, and weather the historic pandemic-induced economic downturn-all amid a national reckoning with racial oppression and resource disparities in Black communities and other communities of color. (americanprogress.org)
  • In Northern Atlantic there are 28 tropical storms. (agu.org)
  • An extraordinary Atlantic hurricane season is still underway, one that has seen the National Hurricane Center exhaust its supply of names and resort to Greek alphabet for remaining storms. (progressivereform.org)
  • This month was the worst September on record in terms of the number of named storms, and 2020 overall is second only to 2005's devastating succession of hurricanes (which included Katrina) in the number of named storms over the entire season. (progressivereform.org)
  • FIGURE 1 National Hurricane Center annual average official track errors as a function of forecast lead time for Atlantic Basin tropical storms and hurricanes, 1970-2014, with least squares trend lines superimposed. (nationalacademies.org)
  • Unfortunately, natural disaster events such as hurricanes, cyclones, storms, floods and wildfires are occurring more often and with greater severity. (construction-today.com)
  • The extent and nature of such action is largely dependent on each individual business' appetite for risk - in other words, the extent to which your business is prepared to deal with disruptions caused by storms, hurricanes, wildfires, floods and other extreme events. (construction-today.com)
  • Increased sea levels lead to larger storm surge capacity as hurricanes and storms make landfall. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Second, higher water temperatures increase the intensity of storms and hurricanes, and their frequency. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Storms and hurricanes are like jet engines that use warm water as fuel, so the warmer the ocean is, the stronger they become. (biomedcentral.com)
  • What affect do hurricanes and other major storm systems have on areas of contamination and how do storms exacerbate the issue to potentially spread contamination? (civilianexposure.org)
  • The varied impacts of storm surge, floodwaters, ground saturation and more on contaminated sites from hurricanes and other large storms continue to grow based on the growing strength of storms in general. (civilianexposure.org)
  • It is a situation, moving forward for Florida, we being the hurricane capital of the country, not only storms that could come each and every year, but more storms and more damaging storms," Salna said. (flaglerlive.com)
  • Now, in the thick of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season - which has already seen nine named storms - Lagarde's home still sits on the same parcel of land, at roughly seven feet above sea level. (southerlymag.org)
  • Dorian, Barry, Florence - these and other recent hurricanes have wreaked havoc on communities across the United States, and human-induced climate change is only increasing the likelihood of destruction from such storms. (sciline.org)
  • He's going to tell us about some of the challenges and advances in forecasting hurricanes and storm surges, something we all pay attention to with almost addictive attention when storms are on the move, and it's all nicely packaged when we see those forecasts. (sciline.org)
  • She's going to take us to the intersection of hurricanes and human behavior with a look at the science of risk communication and efforts to reduce vulnerability among people who are threatened by these storms and other natural hazards. (sciline.org)
  • it was also the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Gulf of Mexico at the time, before Rita broke the record. (wikipedia.org)
  • During his tenure in that position, in 2005 he was designated principal federal official for the U.S. government's response and recovery operations in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita throughout the Gulf Coast region. (nationalacademies.org)
  • NWS offices utilize the real-time reporting of weather events to assist in warning operations, but certainly hurricanes Katrina and Rita have shown us that ham radio operators are equally important during the recovery phase of large-scale natural disasters,' Floyd pointed out. (arrl.org)
  • During Hurricanes Rita and Katrina, we sheltered 150,000 evacuees along the I-45 corridor within Walker County," said Pierce. (texas.gov)
  • Following that, Hurricane Irma destroyed 95% of structures on the island of Barbuda , among other islands. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Finally, Hurricane Irma devastated not only Puerto Rico but also the US Virgin Islands as well as Dominica . (biomedcentral.com)
  • Many Hurricane Irma evacuees say they're apprehensive of packing up and leaving their homes again because forecast models failed to match the final track of the September storm. (flaglerlive.com)
  • A survey by the initiative - whose members include the non-profit FAIR Foundation, Ocala-based Custom Windows Systems, the Florida Home-Improvement Association, Security First Insurance, the Ygrene Energy Fund, the International Hurricane Research Center at Florida International University and the Salvation Army - found one in four Floridians are now less trusting of hurricane forecasts because of Irma. (flaglerlive.com)
  • A Mason-Dixon Polling & Research poll in mid-October found that only 57 percent of Floridians said they would follow an evacuation order in the face of a hurricane similar in strength to Irma because the drifting nature of the storm's track initially had an East Coast landing. (flaglerlive.com)
  • Hurricane Irma is shaping up to be a potentially catastrophic storm that remains on course to hit Florida by Sunday. (duke.edu)
  • Already, energy companies in the state are bracing for the hazards that Hurricane Irma, which registered at a category 5 on Wednesday, could bring . (duke.edu)
  • Trevor Maynard, head of exposure management and reinsurance at Lloyd's, said: "Climate change is very much here to stay. (truthdig.com)
  • However, with significant exposure growth, the impact of social inflation, and climate change complications, the insurance market could struggle to respond to a repeat of Andrew. (rms.com)
  • As the United States struggles to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, federal, state, and local governments must prepare communities for an extremely active hurricane season fueled by climate change, as well as support resilient and equitable rebuilding in the wake of disasters. (americanprogress.org)
  • and the onset of an unusually active hurricane season-caused by warmer ocean temperatures that are fueled by climate change-that continues to break storm formation records. (americanprogress.org)
  • This was in response to a call to action by the National Academy of Sciences to have a project that monitored glaciers across an entire mountain range in the United States, and from climate scientist Stephen Schneider who challenged glaciologists at an IGS meeting in 1983 to begin the monitoring now, in order to identify the full scope of change. (agu.org)
  • There's no mystery as to why: Climate change is driving an increase in the frequency and strength of Atlantic hurricanes. (progressivereform.org)
  • In this first webinar, panelists drew on their diverse expertise and experiences in the Gulf and Atlantic coastal regions to highlight the particular impacts of climate-driven pollution on water quality and the communities that depend on those water resources. (progressivereform.org)
  • However, there have been a lesser focus on the potential indirect effects of climate change on human health through the increased frequency and intensity of extreme climatic events, such as hurricanes. (biomedcentral.com)
  • What does climate change have to do with the increased frequency and intensity of hurricanes? (biomedcentral.com)
  • The intensity of these hurricanes then combine with the increased storm surge due to climate change, causing devastating results. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Fugate noted that the credit-rating agency Moody's Investor Services Inc. last month announced that climate change is forecast to heighten exposure to economic loss, which will place short- and long-term credit pressure on state and local governments. (flaglerlive.com)
  • Erik Salna, associate director and meteorologist at Florida International University's hurricane research center, said "more and more" research supports that climate change is causing increasingly intense hurricane rainfall. (flaglerlive.com)
  • I want to say, first, that I know it's hardly news at this point that human-induced climate change is causing hurricanes to grow stronger and more destructive. (sciline.org)
  • We've all heard about the clear scientific evidence, for example, that, thanks in large part to climate change, hurricanes are producing heavier rain, their storm surges are riding atop higher sea levels, and in many cases, they're lingering longer over land, causing increased flooding and infrastructure destruction. (sciline.org)
  • We also know that more than 90% of the excess heat trapped in the climate system from human-caused global warming has gone into the oceans, providing the added energy that's driving recent hurricanes' extreme wind intensities and also contributing to the evaporation that, in turn, has been leading to record-breaking torrential rainfall. (sciline.org)
  • But we're here today to go beyond the story of climate change and hurricanes and look at a few hurricane science-related challenges that have been, I think, a little bit less closely covered but we think are deserving of attention given the likelihood that strong hurricanes are going to be a bigger part of our future. (sciline.org)
  • Throughout the past few decades , hurricanes in particular have drawn attention to the need to fight climate change, with scientists recognizing that although climate change is not the cause of hurricanes, "a warmer planet will produce bigger and more destructive hurricanes. (duke.edu)
  • Did Climate Change Cause Hurricane Sandy? (nakedcapitalism.com)
  • It was also the fourth-most intense Atlantic hurricane to make landfall in the contiguous United States, gauged by barometric pressure. (wikipedia.org)
  • On September 20, 2017, the Category 5 Hurricane Maria made landfall on the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season proved to be a very active and devastating period that broke several records, such as being one in only six years featuring at least two Category 5 hurricanes. (biomedcentral.com)
  • EPA set to lead the view beyond our control confronting for bankenwerbung Thanks enabled interdisciplinary to the GHG dealing emissions for trans-Atlantic records from May 30, 2017 to August 29, 2019. (shenservice.com)
  • On August 25, two hours before making landfall at Hallandale Beach, it strengthened into a hurricane. (wikipedia.org)
  • The storm strengthened into a Category 5 hurricane over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico before weakening to a high-end Category 3 hurricane at its second landfall on August 29 over southeast Louisiana and Mississippi. (wikipedia.org)
  • The tropical storm moved towards Florida and became a hurricane only two hours before making landfall between Hallandale Beach and Aventura on the morning of August 25. (wikipedia.org)
  • Hurricane Andrew's landfall in Florida in 1992 changed the face of property catastrophe insurance and kick-started many new initiatives, including the development of hurricane risk modeling. (rms.com)
  • 1 Hurricane Sally rapidly intensified shortly before making landfall on September 16, 2020, as a slow-moving Category 2 storm with 105 mph winds, dumping 20 to 30 inches of rainfall along hard-hit communities in western Florida and coastal Alabama. (americanprogress.org)
  • Let's say, hypothetically, that a base is in the path of a strong hurricane making landfall in the area. (civilianexposure.org)
  • This is congruently true for extreme weather events such as hurricanes, as evidenced by the National Hurricane Center's reduced annual average track forecast errors from 1970 to 2014 ( Figure 1 ). (nationalacademies.org)
  • Ham radio operators and volunteers at Miami work together when hurricanes threaten to provide real-time weather data and damage reports to the Hurricane Center's forecasters. (arrl.org)
  • One of the more reasonable discussion points to emerge from efforts to link Hurricane Sandy to the need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions focuses on the role that future sea level rise will have on making storm impacts worse. (blogspot.com)
  • Though it seems logical to call for emissions reductions as a way to arrest sea level rise to reduce the impacts of hurricanes, recent research suggests that our ability to halt the rise of the seas is extremely limited. (blogspot.com)
  • Hurricanes are getting stronger worldwide, and especially over the north Atlantic. (truthdig.com)
  • Ms. Moret states that the group behind the March 11, 2011 events at the Fukushima nuclear plant is the same war crimes racketeering organization behind the false flag operations of September 11, 2001, Hurricane Katrina (2005), the Haiti earthquake (2010) and other HAARP-triggered false flag operations. (amfir.com)
  • Other Coast Guard assignments included commander, Atlantic Area, where in 2001 he led the Coast Guard's Atlantic Area forces following the September 11 attacks. (nationalacademies.org)
  • Did the Administration not see or care about the 2001 FEMA warning about the risk of a devastating hurricane hitting the people of New Orleans? (twoday.net)
  • Despite the deadly consequences of both delaying the federal response to the pandemic at its outset and urging states to reopen their economies before it was safe to do so, President Donald Trump has boasted about the federal government's response to COVID-19 and the nation's preparedness for the 2020 hurricane season. (americanprogress.org)
  • In 2012, Superstorm Sandy caused $35bn of insured losses, making it the most expensive hurricane in US history after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. (truthdig.com)
  • It makes you realize, these megastorms, if you haven't been hit by one, your worst-case scenario is nowhere near a true worst-case scenario," said Daniel J. Kelly , the executive director of the New Jersey Office of Recovery and Rebuilding, as he recalled his state's struggle to respond to Hurricane Sandy. (duke.edu)
  • Hurricane Sandy: " Federal government offices in the Washington area will reopen Wednesday after being closed for two days because of superstorm Sandy. (nakedcapitalism.com)
  • The relatively low number of casualties caused by Sandy is a testament to the success story that is the U.S. National Weather Service and parallel efforts of those who emphasize preparedness and emergency response in the public and private sectors. (blogspot.com)
  • Katrina was the earliest 11th named storm on record, before being surpassed by Tropical Storm Kyle on August 14, 2020. (wikipedia.org)
  • Hurricane Katrina was a devastating Category 5 Atlantic hurricane that caused 1,836 fatalities and damage estimated between $97.4 billion to $145.5 billion in late August 2005, particularly in the city of New Orleans and its surrounding area. (wikipedia.org)
  • The largest loss of life in Hurricane Katrina was due to flooding caused by engineering flaws in the flood protection system, particularly the levee around the city of New Orleans. (wikipedia.org)
  • The disaster in New Orleans prompted a massive national and international response effort, including federal, local, and private rescue operations to evacuate those displaced from the city in the following weeks. (wikipedia.org)
  • The emergency response from federal, state, and local governments was widely criticized, leading to the resignation of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) director Michael D. Brown and New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) Superintendent Eddie Compass. (wikipedia.org)
  • Many other government officials faced criticism for their responses, especially New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco, and President George W. Bush. (wikipedia.org)
  • 2005- Hurricane Katrina strikes New Orleans a $240 billion disaster. (agu.org)
  • In the US, Hurricane Ida brought back painful memories to the people of New Orleans, a city which is still rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina caused 1800 deaths and $125 billion of damage back in 2005. (construction-today.com)
  • In New Orleans, following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, a more than 2-fold increase of cases of West Nile Neurological Disease was reported . (biomedcentral.com)
  • Moody's noted that after Hurricane Katrina, besides widespread infrastructure damage, revenue declined significantly for New Orleans because a large percentage of the city's population left permanently. (flaglerlive.com)
  • While I am delighted to share with you this three-day conference, we cannot ignore the tragedy and the sufferings of the thousands of US citizens cruelly hit by Hurricane "Katrina", which devastated the city of New Orleans two weeks ago. (euusosh.org)
  • After attaining Category 5 hurricane status on the morning of August 28, Katrina reached its peak strength at 1800 UTC, with maximum sustained winds of 175 mph (280 km/h) and a minimum central pressure of 902 mbar (26.6 inHg). (wikipedia.org)
  • We know that, globally, the last few decades have seen a growing proportion of strong hurricanes and a corresponding shrinking proportion of weak ones. (sciline.org)
  • And we know that, globally, hurricanes are reaching their maximum intensities further from the tropics, shifting toward temperate, heavily populated coastal regions that have not historically experienced them. (sciline.org)
  • After briefly weakening to tropical storm strength over southern Florida, Katrina entered the Gulf of Mexico on August 26 and rapidly intensified. (wikipedia.org)
  • Can the Florida Insurance Market Withstand a US$100 Billion Repeat of Hurricane Andrew? (rms.com)
  • The wide-ranging impact of Hurricane Andrew on the Florida insurance market is a familiar story within the risk management world. (rms.com)
  • That is worrisome for Craig Fugate, a former director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Florida Division of Emergency Management, including during the state's devastating 2004 and 2005 hurricane seasons. (flaglerlive.com)
  • Fugate, who addressed reporters during a conference call hosted by the National Hurricane Survival Initiative about a new website and year-round awareness campaign titled "Get Ready, Florida! (flaglerlive.com)
  • The conference call highlighted the need for people in Florida to plan year-round for the six-month hurricane season and for people who live outside flood zones to consider flood insurance. (flaglerlive.com)
  • Hurricanes and other extreme events obviously cause massive devastation and economic harm. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The devastation of Hurricane Katrina has created a vast toxic soup that stretches across south-eastern Louisiana and Mississippi, and portends the arrival of an environmental disaster to rival the awe-inspiring destruction of property and human life over the past week. (twoday.net)
  • 2008) and that category four and five hurricanes have increased substantially in recent decades (Holland and Bruyère, 2014), strong winds may be experienced farther inland in the future, all other TC and environment characteristics being equal. (copernicus.org)
  • And it's doing it at a time when affected communities - especially Black, Brown, and low-income communities - are all the more vulnerable to natural disaster due to the Trump administration's rollbacks of environmental safeguards and its reckless response to the COVID-19 pandemic. (progressivereform.org)
  • The U.S. this year can expect up to nine hurricanes, including as many as four "major hurricanes," according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's forecast for the Atlantic hurricane season that runs June 1 to Nov. 30. (megadoctornews.com)
  • The official death count of 64 is a substantial underestimate of the true burden of mortality after Hurricane Maria," researchers wrote. (indymedia.org)
  • And we're seeing this across, not just in our Atlantic basin, but across the world. (flaglerlive.com)
  • Two people walk down a flooded street in Rodanthe, North Carolina, as Hurricane Dorian hits Cape Hatteras on September 6, 2019. (americanprogress.org)
  • Experts have calculated that $915 billion is needed to relieve the fiscal pressures that the COVID-19 pandemic has put on states, localities, tribes, and territories 8 -all during a year that is expected to be "one of the most active hurricane seasons on record," the resource needs of which will likely strain state and local government finances further. (americanprogress.org)
  • As wildfire and hurricane seasons kick into high gear, experts urge extra caution for people who've had a heart attack or stroke or have other forms of cardiovascular disease. (megadoctornews.com)
  • Katrina was the twelfth tropical cyclone, the fifth hurricane, and the third major hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. (wikipedia.org)
  • On August 27, the storm reached Category 3 intensity on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale, becoming the third major hurricane of the season. (wikipedia.org)
  • HUNTSVILLE, Texas - In preparation for the 2018 hurricane season, the 2nd Battalion, 8th Regiment, Texas State Guard, partnered with local and state emergency management agencies February 24, 2018 to practice and rehearse combined operation capabilities in Huntsville. (texas.gov)
  • The Atlantic Hurricane season begins June 1st. (texas.gov)
  • The effects of demographic factors and dynamics, employment shifts and work organisation changes, gender differentiation, immigration, the size, structure and life cycles of enterprises, the fast pace of technological progress, are examples of the key issues that can generate new types of patterns of hazards, exposure and risks. (euusosh.org)
  • However, several agencies, such as the United States Coast Guard (USCG), National Hurricane Center (NHC), and National Weather Service (NWS), were commended for their actions, with the NHC being particularly praised for its accurate forecasts well in advance. (wikipedia.org)
  • Welcome to SciLine's media briefing on hurricane forecasts and warnings, where we're going to span the spectrum from the complexities of mathematical computer forecasting to the complexities of human behavior in response to these kinds of warnings. (sciline.org)
  • Thereafter, Katrina rapidly intensified over the "unusually warm" waters of the Loop Current, from a Category 3 hurricane to a Category 5 hurricane in just nine hours. (wikipedia.org)
  • An overview published last year in the American Heart Association journal Circulation described wildfire smoke as "a rapidly growing threat to global cardiovascular health" and said that even short-term exposure can lead to heart attacks, strokes or cardiovascular-related deaths. (megadoctornews.com)
  • On behalf of the European Commission, let me therefore express to all of you - distinguished heads of delegation and representatives of government, labour and industry from the United States of America - my deepest sympathy for the victims of this tragedy and my hope that hurricane relief efforts will rapidly turn into a rebirth of this extraordinary city and of the entirety of the Gulf area. (euusosh.org)
  • The hazard with hurricanes are the associated winds, storm surge and, most of all, rain. (duke.edu)
  • Hurricane Florence dealt a severe blow to the Carolinas. (civilianexposure.org)
  • The breakdown in the defenses at the Duke plant underscored how even though Hurricane Florence is over, rising river waters keep adding to the environmental mess left in the storm's wake. (civilianexposure.org)
  • He notes that the HWN, organized in 1965 during Hurricane Betsy, started out as an informal group of amateurs but has since developed a formal relationship with the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami via its Amateur Radio station WX4NHC. (arrl.org)
  • Hurricanes have been shown to cause and worsen cardiovascular disease for years after a storm, according to a 2021 review in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. (megadoctornews.com)
  • The bungled response and tragic consequences associated with Hurricane Katrina tell us what can happen when we let our guard down. (blogspot.com)
  • The destruction and loss of life caused by the storm prompted the name Katrina to be retired by the World Meteorological Organization in April 2006. (wikipedia.org)
  • The storm strengthened into Tropical Storm Katrina on the morning of August 24. (wikipedia.org)
  • The storm weakened over land, but it regained hurricane status about one hour after entering the Gulf of Mexico, and it continued strengthening over open waters. (wikipedia.org)
  • When a tropical storm or hurricane approaches, people with cardiovascular disease need to be aware of their stress levels. (megadoctornews.com)
  • Cardiovascular disease joined drowning and injury as one of the top causes of death after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast region in 2005. (megadoctornews.com)
  • In the US, many plants and industrial sites are located near the Gulf Coast, Atlantic Coast and Mississippi River. (construction-today.com)
  • When Hurricane Katrina pummeled the Gulf Coast in August 2005, her family's two-story house in Plaquemines Parish took on six feet of water. (southerlymag.org)
  • In 2010, President Barack Obama selected Mr. Allen to serve as the national incident commander for the unified response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. (nationalacademies.org)
  • When these infrastructures become degraded in an extreme event, residents are at increased exposure risk to vector-borne diseases as well. (biomedcentral.com)
  • One particular need is to characterize overland footprints for mountainous countries that have both a high TC risk and significant insurance exposure, such as the Philippines and Japan. (copernicus.org)
  • In the absence of extreme events, residents in developed countries are protected from mosquitoes and the diseases they transmit partly simply by their lifestyle , with reduced exposure from not spending time outdoors as much and by having mosquito screens and air conditioning, as well as potted water and functioning sewage systems. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Katrina began on August 23, 2005, with the merger of a tropical wave and the remnants of Tropical Depression Ten. (wikipedia.org)
  • Hurricane Katrina originated from the merger of a tropical wave and the mid-level remnants of Tropical Depression Ten on August 19, 2005, near the Lesser Antilles. (wikipedia.org)
  • Even on October 6, two weeks after the event, the situation is largely unchanged , due to logistical difficulties compounded by the delayed federal emergency response. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The Walker County Office of Emergency Management coordinated the exercise which also included the Walker County Community Emergency Response Team, the Walker County Sheriff's Department, Huntsville Independent School District, the Walker County Animal Issues Group and the Southeast Texas Regional Advisory Council. (texas.gov)
  • Then, in 2012, Hurricane Isaac's 21-foot surge barreled inland, and it was all lost again to 12 feet of water. (southerlymag.org)
  • But what about Superfund military bases and contaminated military sites in the line of fire from hurricanes and other natural disasters? (civilianexposure.org)