Interview with Jason Bird by Thomas Armistead, Engineering News Record, Oct. 17, 2018 With much of north Florida’s design and construction community engaged in damage assessment and recovery following Hurricane Michael’s Oct. 10 strike on the Panhandle and points north, ENR sat down Oct. 16 with Jason Bird, resilience practice leader for Jacobs, to learn […]
Laura Ruana, Naple Daily News, Oct. 14, 2018 Devastating hurricanes, dead fish on the beaches and green slime in canals and rivers: Florida’s No. 1 industry just can’t catch a break. First came Hurricane Irma, which clobbered the Florida Keys and parts of Lee and Collier counties last September. Then came the toxic red tide and […]
Op-ed by Shakira Molet, Community Newspapers, Oct. 15, 2018 The City of Coral Gables, with 42 miles of coastline consisting of $3.5 billion in property value, is on a mission to diligently protect vulnerable areas, landmarks, and the overall quality of life from the dangers presented by climate change and rising sea levels. In 2015, the […]
Op ed by Gil Smart, TC Palm, Oct. 15, 2018 The scenes from the apocalypse were astounding. Mexico Beach in particular looked as if it had been nuked. And gazing at the images from Hurricane Michael’s wrath, one couldn’t help but wonder: What if it happened here? Would we have fared any better? Would drone […]
Rachel Becker, The Verge, Oct. 16, 2018 When Hurricane Michael crashed into the Florida Panhandle on October 10th, the storm cut power to parts of Florida and Georgia in its path, new NASA images show. The pictures are a stark reminder of our energy infrastructure’s vulnerability to natural disasters. The pictures went up today on NASA’s […]
Carey L. Biron, Thomson Reuters, Oct. 18, 2018 WASHINGTON, Oct 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When flash floods tore through Ellicott City, Maryland, this spring, Governor Larry Hogan called it a “once-every-1,000-year” event – even though it was the second such catastrophe within two years. Speaking to reporters in May, Hogan was channeling the bewilderment of […]
Patrick Sisson, Curbed, Oct. 16, 2018 Amid the havoc Hurricane Michael caused on blocks of waterfront property in Mexico Beach, Florida, a single home stood out after the storm cleared, a survivor of winds that made buildings “buck like an airplane wing.” This so-called Sand Palace, a home owned by Russell King and his nephew, Dr. […]
Dave Phillips, New York Times, Oct. 17, 2018 When Hurricane Michael wrecked much of Tyndall Air Force Base near Panama City, Fla., last week, the storm exposed a significant military vulnerability. The base’s F-22 stealth fighter jets may be unmatched in the skies, but they were all but defenseless on the ground, as the powerful […]
Op-ed by Brooke Barton, The Bond Buyer, Oct. 16, 2018 Hurricane Florence caused record flooding at water and wastewater plants in North Carolina. Saltwater intrusion from rising sea levels is wreaking havoc on Florida’s water supplies. The nearly two decades of drought afflicting the Colorado River Basin will soon require Southern California to cut its draw […]
James Call, Tallahassee Democrat, Oct. 18, 2018 “Much of the impacts observed so far have been ecological, many downed trees and branches,” said Shellabarger. Members of the Facebook group, Friends of the State Parks, report widespread damage at parks in Franklin, Gulf, Bay and Jackson counties. Billy Bailey, a member of the Caverns’ page, said it […]
