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Changes in Flood Characteristics after a Major Event: Re-evaluating the Effect of Hurricane Floyd on Future Flood Response
(2009-09-18)
Hurricane Floyd had immediate impacts on the relatively slow-changing environment and undeveloped, unregulated watershed. The total flood water was 95% of the volume of Pamlico Sound, and many locations exceeded the record ...
Fatal Tradeoff? Toward a Better Understanding of the Costs of Not Evacuating from a Hurricane in Affected Landfall Counties
(2009-09-18)
The researchers examined an economic behavior model of the evacuation decision. Hurricane fatalities decreased each decade until the 2000s, when deaths increased due to Hurricane Katrina. As more people move into coastal ...
Preserving Assets in Low-Income Communities Affected by Disaster
(2009-09-18)
MDC helps organizations and communities close gaps that separate people from opportunities and helps people to try to find a path out of poverty through education, work, and asset-building. The group has been active in ...
2013 North Carolina Hurricane Workshop Summary
(2013-05-22)
The North Carolina Division of Emergency Management in collaboration with East Carolina University's Center for Natural Hazards Research held a Hurricane Workshop on May 22, 2013 at the Murphy Center in Greenville, NC. ...
Back to the Future: Satellite Precipitation as a Tool to Reanalyze Hurricane Floyd and Forecast Probabilities of Extreme Rainfall in Eastern North Carolina
(2009-09-18)
In order to answer questions about how much rain fell during Hurricane Floyd and its input into rivers, researchers looked at satellite, river gauge, and radar data. They took a radar map and put it into a GIS with watershed ...
The Pursuit of Risk
(2013-05-22)
John Dorman is the Assistant EM Director for Geospatial and Technology Management in the
North Carolina Division of Emergency Management. In this capacity, he is responsible for the
design, acquisition, analysis, and ...
Facing Disaster: Forecasting and Assessing Floyd and its Impacts on North Carolina
(2009-09-18)
Jeff Orrock reviewed the year of Hurricane Floyd, 1999. It was not a big hurricane year overall in the Atlantic, but very active for North Carolina. Hurricane Dennis was a welcome storm in that it brought 5–8 inches of ...
Modeling and Planning for Storm Surge (Panel)
(2013-05-22)
Jessica Losego discussed the CERA (Coastal Emergency Risk Assessment)-Atlantic portal that is
part of the DHS Coastal Hazards Center of Excellence housed at UNC Chapel Hill. She showed
examples of the five-day ...
2013 Hurricane Season Forecast
(2013-05-22)
Mr. Szatkowski described the 2012 hurricane season. In 2012 there were 19 named storms, 10
reached hurricane strength and 2 were major hurricanes. This exceeded the average number.
This year is likely to exceed ...
CERA-Atlantic Storm Surge Web Page: Improvements for 2013 Based on EM Feedback
(2013-05-22)
Jessica Losego has worked extensively with the North Carolina emergency management
(EM) community since starting as a meteorologist at the University of North Carolina seven
years ago. During this time, she developed ...