Category Archives: Floods
Tsunami Imagery
From the Baylor College of Medicine, this page (aimed at teachers of Biology) offers an in-depth look at what it takes to create the imagery from which emergency planners do after-action analysis, resource allocation and focus recovery work. “To determine … Continue reading
Disaster DVDs from National Archives
(I need a tag for this item called “not-sure-how-I-feel-about-this”) In case you don’t get enough storm stories from the Weather Channel’s “When Weather Changed History” series, the National Archives has produced a boxed set of DVDs, available at your local … Continue reading
Two Worlds Collided*
Two of my ‘worlds’, that is: libraries and emergency management. Louisville Free Public Library has sustained terrible damage in a sudden flood, and this Library Journal article does a nice job of highlighting how, even with emergency plans in place, … Continue reading
Fargo Flood Homepage
We’ll stay with the flood theme for a bit, and look at the “Fargo Flood Homepage (Red River)“, a link page developed by North Dakota State University. In addition to a graphic representation of the flood’s current stage, there are … Continue reading
Flood waters and weather planning
North Dakota has been in the weather a lot lately, and once again the USGS is at work, collecting and disseminating data. Over 100 USGS Gaging Stations are linked through the North Dakota Water Science Center homepage. The Flood Tracking … Continue reading