Preparing for hurricane season
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- Preparing for hurricane season
- Tornado risk analysis in the United States.
- Hemingway’s Hurricane: The Great Florida Keys Storm of 1935.(Book…
- Repairs to Hurricane Rita-damaged homes remain on hold.
- Experts get better handle on storm surges
Preparing for hurricane season
St. Petersburg Times – Mar 22, 2007
addVariable(”pid” “FLPET”); ap. addVariable(”fontcolor” “0×336699″); ap. write(”flashcontent”);Forecasters are predicting a more-active-than-usual 2007 Atlantic hurricane season with at least 14 named storms expected. Hurricane season begins June 1 which is right around the corner and runs through Nov. That's why the Citrus County Sheriff's ffice Emergency Management Section is urging citizens with special needs to register now in order to be prepared. To help facilitate this process the Sheriff's ffice has posted the Voluntary Special Needs Program registration form on its Web page.
Tornado risk analysis in the United States.
Free with registration – Journal of Risk Finance – AccessMyLibrary.com – Mar 22, 2007
Tornado risk analysis in the United States. (22-MAR-07) Journal of Risk Finance. Based on the data provided by Property Claims Services since 1949 tornado hail and straight-line-wind losses… As wealth is increasing the high frequency of such events combined with their severities will cause the insurance industry to look in more detail at their underwriting policies. Events such as the May 2003 outbreak with losses of more than $3 billion seem to become more common. This event spawned more than 400 tornadoes and more than 1000 hail storms and its loss is comparable to an average hurricane. This paper briefly discusses some aspects of the model developed at Aon Impact Forecasting. Using a relatively large event set (35000 years of simulation) and employing the concept of hit probability tornado hazard for the contiguous US will be shown. Also employing a typical portfolio loss results for the state of Illinois will be presented. The analyses indicates that the tornado losses dominate the tail of the loss distribution curves while the hail losses mainly dominate the body part of the distribution.
Hemingway’s Hurricane: The Great Florida Keys Storm of 1935.(Book…
Free with registration – Hemingway Review – AccessMyLibrary.com – Mar 22, 2007
Phil Scott’s Hemingway’s Hurricane is a nonfiction account of the Category 5 storm that struck the Florida Keys on Labor Day weekend in 1935 traumatizing the Middle Keys killing hundreds and prompting Hemingway’s savage account in The New Masses–”Who Murdered the Vets?” Scott’s thoroughly researched book follows the beginnings of the 1935 hurricane from the first Weather Service bulletins from the Atlantic to the reports of Pan Am pilots as they flew past the storm. Using archived records Scott explains the formation of the hurricane from its unusual beginnings in the Antilles to its destructive path through Florida’s Middle Keys. As the storm began to take shape approximately 700 World War I veterans were living in three Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) camps in the Keys helping to build an verseas Highway bridging the islands from the mainland to Key West. The highway followed along the path of Henry Flagler’s Railroad often considered the Eighth Wonder of the World because of.
Repairs to Hurricane Rita-damaged homes remain on hold.
Free with registration – Beaumont Enterprise – AccessMyLibrary.com – Mar 22, 2007
(22-MAR-07) Beaumont Enterprise (Beaumont TX). 22–BEAUMNT — The repair of hundreds of hurricane-damaged homes remains on hold as local officials navigate the intricate grant processes of state and federal bureaucr.
Experts get better handle on storm surges
MSNBC – Mar 22, 2007
They?re also difficult to predict. But new more direct measurements of storm surges detailed in the March 23 issue of Science could help meteorologists improve forecasts and warnings and thereby reduce the damage wrought by hurricanes. As a hurricane travels over the.