Active Weather Underground blogger Patrap is putting together a relief truck bound for Texas. I will post more details as I get them but what this space, the nola-bloggers@googlegroups.com list and risingtide on Twitter for more details as they are available.
I think this is a good opportunity to NOLA Bloggers to help Texas by helping the efforts of one of their own.
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Showing posts with label flooding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flooding. Show all posts
9.14.2008
8.17.2007
Timothy Ruppert - In Levees We Trust
But should we? The New York Times has an article today about the inadequacies of our levee protection system. Questions remain about where all the money has been going. At Rising Tide 2, on Saturday, August 25, Timothy Ruppert will present a comprehensive report on the level of hurricane protection currently existing in New Orleans.
Tim will lead a discussion of the components of the hurricane protection system, where we are now and what it will mean once we have the "100-year" level of protection. It will include a comparisson of what other industrialized nations do, and how levees compare to rivers or dams when it comes to safety. Tim is the current president of the American Society of Civil Engineers Louisiana Section. He will be speaking as a civil engineer and a local representative of ASCE.
Tim is also a NOLA blogger (Tim's Nameless Blog), and a resident of Gentilly. His family's home was flooded by the London Canal breach, with the dried-out remains later burning up in a fire. He and his sainted wife are rebuilding their home, but this time it's raised on pilings.
Tim will lead a discussion of the components of the hurricane protection system, where we are now and what it will mean once we have the "100-year" level of protection. It will include a comparisson of what other industrialized nations do, and how levees compare to rivers or dams when it comes to safety. Tim is the current president of the American Society of Civil Engineers Louisiana Section. He will be speaking as a civil engineer and a local representative of ASCE.
Tim is also a NOLA blogger (Tim's Nameless Blog), and a resident of Gentilly. His family's home was flooded by the London Canal breach, with the dried-out remains later burning up in a fire. He and his sainted wife are rebuilding their home, but this time it's raised on pilings.
8.13.2007
Rising Tide Schedule
Rising Tide 2007 presents video by artists inspired by the federal flood that followed Hurricane Katrina and its devastation of
Kim Marshall moderates a panel discussion featuring Michael Duplantier, Peter Athas, and Mark Moseley
Presentations by Timothy Ruppert, NOLA blogger and current president of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Louisiana Section, Matt McBride, author of the blog "Fix the Pumps."
Greg Peters moderates a panel of
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Rising Tide will offer an opportunity for its participants to help the New Orleans Public Schools, many of which will be opening for the first time this year. Details coming soon.
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