ScienceDaily (June 7, 2010) — Rima Taher, an expert in the design of low-rise buildings for extreme winds and hurricane, hopes her phone won’t ring much this hurricane season. It’s already been busy with requests for information about best building design and construction practices to reduce wind pressures on building surfaces. Read the remainder of Building to Withstand Hurricanes.
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Building to Withstand Hurricanes
Sunday, June 13th, 2010
2010 Hurricane Season Summary
Tuesday, June 1st, 20102010 Hurricane Season Summary
The Atlantic basin sits still and quiet for now, but come June 1st the warm waters will start to wake up and go into full cylcle.
The Storm Names for 2010 are as follows:
Alex, Bonnie, Colin, Danielle, Earl, Fiona, Gaston, Hermine, Igor, Julia, Karl, Lisa, Matthew, Nicole, Otto, Paula, Richard, Shary, Tomas, Virginie, Walter.
Prepare today and visit our WeAreSafeAndSound.com Facebook page, or get more information at 2010 Hurricane Season.
What if a hurricane were to slam into the oil slick?
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010While the oil leak disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is bad enough, many people have been wondering what could happen if a hurricane were to slam into the region. AccuWeather.com hurricane expert Joe Bastardi is concerned but multiple threats from storms throughout the season in the Gulf of Mexico. Bastardi attributes heat rising over the tropical Atlantic to a collapsing El Niño pattern in the Pacific. In turn, the rising warm, moist air over the tropical Atlantic is forecast to unleash a top-10 hurricane season in the Atlantic Basin. With 16 to 18 tropical storms and/or hurricanes expected, a significant number of these are bound to make their way into the Gulf of Mexico. Bastardi expects a little more than 1 out of 3 tropical storms and/or hurricanes to impact U.S. coastal waters this season. The hurricane seasons of 1998, 2005 and 2008 had similarities to the expected pattern this season. Some locations could be hit by…
Read the remainder of a Hurricane Slamming Into The Oil Slick.
Was Katrina A “Natural” Or “Man-Made” Disaster? New York Times Ombudsman Says Maybe Just Call It A “Disaster”
Sunday, May 16th, 2010
Also today in the New York Times ombudsman Clark Hoyt raised a wording question that has both journalistic and policy implications when it comes to disasters. As part of the column, “Semantic Minefields,” Hoyt wrote about a petition organized by Sandy Rosenthal of New Orleans asking the Times “to issue a style memo requiring that news articles use ‘man-made disaster,’ not ‘natural disaster,’ when referring to Hurricane Katrina’s impact on New Orleans.” The column continues:
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“Preparing For The Next Haiti, With Maps, Texts And Tweets”
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
Nathan Hodge of Wired.com’s Danger Room blog has a good post, Preparing For The Next Haiti, With Maps, Texts, And Tweets, which discusses the impressive high-tech volunteer response to the earthquake. Hodge attended the Haiti Tech Meetup yesterday at the U.S. State Department yesterday and spoke to a number of those involved in the recovery effort: read the remainder of Preparing For The Next Haiti, With Maps, Texts and Tweets.
