Download or read book Effects of Hurricane Fran on Communities with and Without Shore Protection written by U.S. Army Engineer Institute for Water Resources and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hurricane Fran Effects on Communities with and Without Shore Protection written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Wilmington District and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Building Performance Assessment written by Federal Emergency Management Agency and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-04-26 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On September 5, 1996, Hurricane Fran made landfall near Cape Fear, North Carolina and generated considerable rainfall, moderately high winds, and storm surge and waves along the cost. Although the storm generated high winds along the coast and well inland, severe damage to buildings was concentrated in those areas also impacted by the flood surge and waves. This report focuses on the damage along the North Carolina coast that resulted from flood surge, wave action, erosion, and scour. On September 12, 1996, the Mitigation Directorate of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) deployed a Building Performance Assessment Team (BPAT) to coastal North Carolina to assess damage caused by Hurricane Fran. The mission of the BPAT was to assess the performance of buildings on the barrier islands most directly affected by Hurricane Fran and to make recommendations for improving building performance in future events. Better performance of building systems can be expected when the causes of observed failures are determined and repair and construction are undertaken in accordance with recognized standards of design and construction. The immediate goal of the BPAT process is to provide guidance to State and local governments for post-hurricane reconstruction. In addition, the BPAT's findings can enhance future coastal design and construction. The BPAT developed recommendations for reducing future hurricane damage. The recommendations address areas of concern such as building materials, design practices, construction techniques, and quality of construction. The recommendations presented in this report are applicable in other communities that experience similar coastal flooding. This report presents the BPAT's observations of the successes and failures of buildings that experienced the flood effects of Hurricane Fran, comments on building failure modes, and provides recommendations intended to enhance the performance of buildings in future hurricanes.

Download or read book Federal Response to Hurricane Fran written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Clean Air, Wetlands, Private Property, and Nuclear Safety and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche.

Download or read book Living in the Danger Zone written by Bill Marscher and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-04 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About 50 million Americans live where hurricanes rage. In Living in the Danger Zone, hurricane survivors tell their frightening stories, and hurricane experts explain why advances in science, technology and communications have not eliminated these storms’ power to terrorize, to destroy and to kill. By the end of the book, readers will see hope in the truth that they can take action ahead of time that will reduce their risks, their losses and their suffering.

Download or read book After Action Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Study of Inland Wind Effects of Hurricane Fran and Assessment of Inland Wind Model written by United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency. Mitigation and Research and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Impacts of Hurricane Fran on a North Carolina Piedmont Woodland written by Rickie D. White and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Barrier Islands and Hurricane Fran written by Lundie Spence and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Aftermath of Hurricane Fran in North Carolina written by Jerad Bales and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hurricane Fran Storm Damage Survey written by Haag Engineering, Co and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Learning from Hurricane Fran written by Deborah Elaine Morida-Sheeler and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hurricane Fran in North Carolina September 5 6 1996 written by U.s. Department of Commerce and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-01-31 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report describes the surface wind speeds and structural damage caused by Hurricane Fran during its passage across North Carolina and Virginia on 5-6 September, 1996.

Download or read book Hurricane Fran written by Kurt Eichenberger (AIA.) and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Subject Guidance For Helping Title IV Participants Affected By Hurricane Fran In Maryland North Carolina GEN 96 18 U S Department Of Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reducing Coastal Risk on the East and Gulf Coasts written by Committee on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Water Resources Science, Engineering, and Planning: Coastal Risk Reduction and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hurricane- and coastal-storm-related losses have increased substantially during the past century, largely due to increases in population and development in the most susceptible coastal areas. Climate change poses additional threats to coastal communities from sea level rise and possible increases in strength of the largest hurricanes. Several large cities in the United States have extensive assets at risk to coastal storms, along with countless smaller cities and developed areas. The devastation from Superstorm Sandy has heightened the nation's awareness of these vulnerabilities. What can we do to better prepare for and respond to the increasing risks of loss? Reducing Coastal Risk on the East and Gulf Coasts reviews the coastal risk-reduction strategies and levels of protection that have been used along the United States East and Gulf Coasts to reduce the impacts of coastal flooding associated with storm surges. This report evaluates their effectiveness in terms of economic return, protection of life safety, and minimization of environmental effects. According to this report, the vast majority of the funding for coastal risk-related issues is provided only after a disaster occurs. This report calls for the development of a national vision for coastal risk management that includes a long-term view, regional solutions, and recognition of the full array of economic, social, environmental, and life-safety benefits that come from risk reduction efforts. To support this vision, Reducing Coastal Risk states that a national coastal risk assessment is needed to identify those areas with the greatest risks that are high priorities for risk reduction efforts. The report discusses the implications of expanding the extent and levels of coastal storm surge protection in terms of operation and maintenance costs and the availability of resources. Reducing Coastal Risk recommends that benefit-cost analysis, constrained by acceptable risk criteria and other important environmental and social factors, be used as a framework for evaluating national investments in coastal risk reduction. The recommendations of this report will assist engineers, planners and policy makers at national, regional, state, and local levels to move from a nation that is primarily reactive to coastal disasters to one that invests wisely in coastal risk reduction and builds resilience among coastal communities.

Download or read book Solutions to Coastal Disasters 02 written by Lesley Ewing and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection contains 83 papers presented at the Solutions to Coastal Disasters 2002 Conference, held in San Diego, California, February 24-27, 2002.