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A personal hardship is not enough to justify enclosed living space to be allowed below the flood elevation, Monroe County, Fla., commissioners ruled in early January. The reason: FEMA has advised the county that permitting construction below the flood line jeopardizes the whole county’s access to...
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Superstorm Sandy caused sewage backups and overflows along hundreds of miles of U.S. coastline. But the sewage overflow problem in the affected areas is not occasional — it’s chronic.
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Hard-hit Jersey Shore towns are re-opening, and the inhabitants are trickling back. But for many sections of the shore, the devastation is discouraging, and progress is slow.
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Nearly a score of nuclear power plants along the Atlantic Coast were in Superstorm Sandy’s projected track. Nothing happened.
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Homeowner’s insurance — as homeowners sometimes learn too late — does not cover losses caused by a hurricane storm surge.
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Authorities may come to a final decision this month about new design values for Southern Pine lumber.
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The Mississippi Delta region of Louisiana is experiencing a combination of rising seas and subsiding land. The result: shorelines are sinking into the ocean.
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Without an emergency appropriation from Congress, the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)’s cash reserves will run out next week.
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For anyone who would like to view the storm’s impacts from an aerial perspective, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has provided a web resource.
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