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Even after purging out topics which, while I was distracted with earning a paycheck, either burned out or were discussed to death elsewhere online, there are still enough items worthy of mentioning to merit a “chop suey” post: The Sun-Sentinel’s House Keys blog mentioned that Florida Insurance Commissioner McCarty has been making the rounds, touting how [...] 
For those of you who are so inclined, the Times-Picayune has posted a map highlighting where the weak points are in New Orleans’ not-yet-completed post-Katrina improvements to its storm surge defenses. 
Despite my prior post…perhaps someone has learned something from the aftermath of Katrina. Friday, the Courant ran a story discussing the release of new FEMA flood zone maps for Hartford County, Connecticut. The article contained this observation: FEMA is also looking at levees more closely than ever. For Hartford and East Hartford, that means that areas [...]
In the words of George Santayana: Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Seen at MSNBC: In a yearlong review of levee work here, The Associated Press has tracked a pattern of public misperception, political jockeying and legal fighting, along with economic and engineering miscalculations since Katrina, that threaten to make New Orleans the [...]
I’m on a business trip in South Texas, just in time to experience the joy of Hurricane Dolly. Naturally, there are all sorts of stories in local media hyping the breeziness of the day. For example, consider this ABC report: Cities and counties in the Rio Grande valley were preparing Tuesday night as officials feared heavy rains [...]
Let’s see, it was almost 3 years ago that Joe Average American learned about the plight of American levees in the Great Flood of New Orleans in the wake of Katrina. Have we learned anything about the importance of planning for catastrophic situations when it comes to American levee systems? Seen at the Wall Street Journal (subscriber link): The [...] 
Seen at Business Insurance: The U.S. Supreme Court refused Tuesday to hear a case in which a federal appeals court ruled that property insurance policies did not cover flood damage in New Orleans caused by the failure of levees during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. In its Aug. 2, 2007, decision in the Katrina Canal Breaches Litigation, which [...] |
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