Lessons From Hurricane Ike

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Lessons From Hurricane Ike

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Author : Philip B. Bedient
language : en
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Release Date : 2012-05-16

Lessons From Hurricane Ike written by Philip B. Bedient and has been published by Texas A&M University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-16 with Nature categories.

If Hurricane Ike had made landfall just fifty miles down the Texas coast, the devastation and death caused by what was already one of the most destructive hurricanes in US history would have quadrupled. Ike made everyone realize just how exposed and vulnerable the Houston-Galveston area is in the face of a major storm. What is done to address this vulnerability will shape the economic, social, and environmental landscape of the region for decades to come. In Lessons from Hurricane Ike, Philip Bedient and the research team at the Severe Storm Prediction, Education, and Evacuation from Disasters (SSPEED) Center at Rice University provide an overview of some of the research being done in the Houston-Galveston region in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike. The center was formed shortly after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. Its research examines everything from surge and inland flooding to bridge infrastructure. Lessons from Hurricane Ike gathers the work of some of the premier researchers in the fields of hurricane prediction and impact, summarizing it in accessible language accompanied by abundant illustrations—not just graphs and charts, but dramatic photos and informative maps. Orienting readers to the history and basic meteorology of severe storms along the coast, the book then revisits the impact of Hurricane Ike and discusses what scientists and engineers are studying as they look at flooding, storm surges, communications, emergency response, evacuation planning, transportation issues, coastal resiliency, and the future sustainability of the nation’s fourth largest metropolitan area.

A Year Later

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Author : United States. Congress
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-12-12

A Year Later written by United States. Congress and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-12 with categories.

A year later : lessons learned, progress made, and challenges that remain from Hurricane Ike : hearing before the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session, September 25, 2009.

Planning For Disaster Recovery

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Author : Sara Hamideh
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015

Planning For Disaster Recovery written by Sara Hamideh and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with categories.

Recovery is the least researched and prepared-for phase in the disaster management cycle, but the critique of the post-Katrina's planning has begun to get researchers' attention with an emerging consensus on the value of recovery planning and its timing. My dissertation focuses on improving recovery planning by asking "how can the recovery planning process and outcomes following Hurricane Ike in Galveston, Texas inform theories of recovery planning?" This inquiry is addressed in three articles. The first article is an integrative review of the recovery planning literature, theories of planning and plan quality to lay out evaluation criteria. Recovery planning should be proactive, driven by local leadership, long-term and broad scope based on accurate data. Success of a recovery plan depends on setting transformative and restorative goals, alternative plausible futures and flexible policies. While federal recovery programs use several of these principles, they are criticized for short time frame, project-oriented and a prescriptive approach. The second article undertakes a qualitative analysis of recovery planning in Galveston. Resistance to start planning early reflected a lack of capacity. Hence, when planning started, it was based on limited fact-basis and expertise. The planning process was open and transparent, yet not adequately representative; and deliberation on important issues fell short. The result was a list of projects, not a plan, which failed to gain political and legal approval. The third study is an assessment of population, economic, and housing recovery. Population of Galveston is slowly restoring its pre-Ike level, but I found disparities among neighborhoods and race/ethnic sub-populations. Changes in shares of industries from job market and composition of jobs show that Ike was an interruption and acceleration to longer and broader trends in the local economy. Recovery of housing has either failed or been severely thwarted at the aggregate level. At the disaggregate level, the lag is even larger for damaged duplexes and multifamily units. Finally, I synthesize the findings of the three studies and suggest lessons for recovery planning practice and questions for future research to further inform our knowledge of the opportunities and challenges in disaster recovery planning. The electronic version of this dissertation is accessible from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/155735

My Frail Island

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Author : Paul Burka
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008

My Frail Island written by Paul Burka and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Hurricane Ike, 2008 categories.

A Year Later

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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013

A Year Later written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Disaster relief categories.

A Year Later

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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013

A Year Later written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Disaster relief categories.

Hurricane Ike

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Author : Sarah Terry Standridge
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2010-02

Hurricane Ike written by Sarah Terry Standridge and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Hurricane IKE wiped out the entire Bolivar Peninsula of Galveston County, Texas leaving a mere "bomb explosion" effect on the community. It took over two week before residents where allowed onto their ravished properties, to see the horrendous destruction. It was a nightmare to all that returned. There are stories of our residents that stayed during the storm thinking it was only a Category 2 Hurricane. This book is dedicated to the stories that we will never hear and to all of the survival stories that we are thankful that we do have. The residents of the Bolivar Peninsula, Texas went through a life time experience with Hurricane IKE. On September 13, 2008, Hurricane IKE ravished the entire Bolivar Peninsula, Texas. It left the peninsula bare as if a bomb had exploded. The entire Gulf of Mexico churned with winds reaching 275 miles from the eye. The gulf side of Florida witnessed miles of beaches as the ocean was entirely submerging the Bolivar Peninsula in Texas. The residents of the Peninsula have our own unique stories and memories to share through each of our individual eyes. We lived through the unbelievable, the unknowing, the destruction, the loss, the love, the spiritual and the comeback! These are our stories, as our entire lives changed within a blink of an eye!

A Year Later

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Author : United States. Congress
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-09-30

A Year Later written by United States. Congress and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-30 with categories.

A year later : lessons learned, progress made, and challenges that remain from Hurricane Ike : hearing before the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session, September 25, 2009.

Hurricane Ike Field Investigations Setting Chapter 3 Hurricane Ike Chapter 4 Geologic Conditions Chapter 5 Shoreline Structure Issues Chapter 6 Buildings Chapter 7 Lifelines And Infrastructure Chapter 8 Marina Performance Chapter 9 Policy Issues Chapter 10 Lessons Learned Appendix Storm Hydrographs At Area Noaa Stations

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Author : Hurricane Ike Field Assessment Team of American Society of Civil Engineers
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013

Hurricane Ike Field Investigations Setting Chapter 3 Hurricane Ike Chapter 4 Geologic Conditions Chapter 5 Shoreline Structure Issues Chapter 6 Buildings Chapter 7 Lifelines And Infrastructure Chapter 8 Marina Performance Chapter 9 Policy Issues Chapter 10 Lessons Learned Appendix Storm Hydrographs At Area Noaa Stations written by Hurricane Ike Field Assessment Team of American Society of Civil Engineers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Beach erosion categories.

Prepared by the Hurricane Ike Field Assessment Team of the Coasts, Oceans, Ports, and Rivers Institute of ASCE. Hurricane Ike Coastal Impact Assessment: Field Observations from October 3-6, 2008 describes the environmental and infrastructure impacts of Hurricane Ike on the upper Texas coast. Most important, the report identifies factors that appeared to provide protection from storm damage and presents some policy implications. After a general introduction to the area, its geology, historical storm events and rehabilitation, and coastal processes, the book describes Hurricane Ike, including water levels, storm surge measurements, and comparisons with other storms. It portrays the physical impacts of the storm, such as geomorphic changes, erosion rates, shoreline position, and impact of winds on engineered structures. Damage to and survival of shoreline structures--piers, seawalls, geotextile tubes, groins, and inlet jetties--are also discussed. Subsequent chapters address structural damage to buildings, lifelines and infrastructure, and marinas from wind, flooding, waves, and erosion. Finally, the book raises policy issues and summarizes lessons learned. Civil engineers engaged in projects related to coasts, oceans, ports, and rivers, especially in hurricane-prone areas; facilities managers in coastal areas; government officials from agencies that participate in coastal zone management or manage emergency preparedness will find the observations and conclusions of this book valuable.

The Continuing Storm

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Author : Kai Erikson
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2022-07-05

The Continuing Storm written by Kai Erikson and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-05 with Social Science categories.

More than fifteen years later, Hurricane Katrina maintains a strong grip on the American imagination. The reason is not simply that Katrina was an event of enormous scale, although it certainly was by any measure one of the most damaging storms in American history. But, quite apart from its lethality and destructiveness, Katrina retains a place in living memory because it is one of the most telling disasters in our recent national experience, revealing important truths about our society and ourselves. The final volume in the award-winning Katrina Bookshelf series Higher Ground reflects upon what we have learned about Katrina and about America. Kai Erikson and Lori Peek expand our view of the disaster by assessing its ongoing impact on individual lives and across the wide-ranging geographies where displaced New Orleanians landed after the storm. Such an expanded view, the authors argue, is critical for understanding the human costs of catastrophe across time and space. Concluding with a broader examination of disasters in the years since Katrina—including COVID-19—The Continuing Storm is a sobering meditation on the duration of a catastrophe that continues to exact steep costs in human suffering.