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Category Archives: Characterization of Impacts
LESSONS FROM A BUILDING COLLAPSE: WHAT NEEDS TO CHANGE?
In the early morning of June 24, 2021, many of us in Southeast Florida and in the rest of the country waked-up to the news of a tragic partial building collapse in Surfside. A young boy was rescued alive from … Continue reading
Posted in Built Environment, Causality, Characterization of Impacts, Climate Change, Disasters, Emergency Management, Featured, Global Warming, Hazard Assessment, Hazards, MY OPINION, Resilience, Sea Level Rise, Vulnerability Assessment
Tagged Building collapse, Building Recertification, Champlain Tower South, Florida, Florida Office of State Attorney, Grand Jury, Miami-Dade County, National Construction Safety Team, National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST, Surfide
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The One-Two Punch: here comes LAURA!
Toward the end of July, as it tends to happen during the summer months in the northern hemisphere, the northern Indian Ocean was boiling with numerous storms, disturbed weather cells and rather warm surface waters. This cauldron of bad weather … Continue reading
Posted in Characterization of Impacts, Cyclogenesis, Emergency Management, Flooding, Hazard Mitigation, Hazards, Hurricanes, Science, Storm Surge, Tropical Cyclones, Tropical Depression, Weather
Tagged 2020 aTLANTIC hURRICANE sEASON, Atlantic, Cape Verde Islands, Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, Heat content of the ocean, Horn of Africa, Hurricane alley, Hurricane LAURA, Hurricane MARCO, Indian Ocean, Ocean-atmosphere environment, Sea surface water temperature, tropical wave assembly line
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