Well, it seems the City of Moorhead is contemplating a new approach to addressing sandbagging costs in areas that are offered buyouts. The new proposed approach focuses on homeowners who don't take the buyouts. If a homeowner chooses not to take a buyout under the proposed new approach the city will make the homeowner pay [...]
Tag: mitigation
An undeniable affinity for plastic…
I have concluded that after a couple of sump pump failures one becomes unnaturally drawn to the plastics aisle. Plastic bins and containers of all sizes and colors have an almost mystical draw for me these days. It used to be that wide-eyed kid in a candy store look was saved for jewelry or really [...]
The River Whisperer…
While I believe most folks realize we live on a volatile planet, I think we often get caught up in day-to-day life and forget how fragile the balance is between everything is all right and everything is all wrong. At any given time Mother Nature can turn areas upside down with little to no warning. [...]
And the answer was…goats.
The students in my mitigation class had to propose and detail a creative mitigation strategy for their last assignment of the semester. They could utilize up to $100,000 for their strategy and address any hazard they wanted to. I got some very detailed and elaborate proposals - some that met the mark and some that [...]
We must do better…
As members of the world community mobilize to respond to the massive earthquake that all but leveled Haiti’s capital city of Port-au-Prince on Tuesday, we are reminded that there is no negotiation room when it comes to Mother Nature. Poverty-stricken regions that have not been able to take preparedness or mitigation actions to better protect [...]
THE NEW FORTY 