Today is the fifth anniversary of the publication of my book, High Tide On Main Street: Rising Sea Level and the Coming Coastal Crisis. Often cited is the amazing coincidence that exactly a week later, October 29th, superstorm Sandy hit Atlantic City and New York, ...
October 22nd, 2017 Category: Sea Level Rise
When the subject of flooding arises, either the short-term varieties of rainfall, storms, and extreme tides, or the long-term problem of rising sea level, we tend to look at the negative aspects and the potential loss of coastal communities worldwide. From this perspective, rising water ...
October 16th, 2017 Category: Sea Level Rise
The late Benjamin Graham is one of the all-time investing icons, even in the eyes of Warren Buffett, his famously successful student (both pictured above). Graham said his secret to sound investing was three words: “Margin of Safety.” The words could also well apply to designing for ...
October 8th, 2017 Category: Sea Level Rise
Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria – the recent series of powerful storms, in exactly three weeks, might be the one, two, three “punch” that gets our attention about the new environmental conditions that we are up against. A pattern of three items is known to ...
October 1st, 2017 Category: Sea Level Rise
Human beings are each unique – physically, culturally, emotionally and intellectually. We all have to deal with our survival needs and certain realities of the world. Our beliefs also define who we are as individuals, in groups, and as a society. Beliefs color all aspects of ...
September 24th, 2017 Category: Sea Level Rise
The terrible flooding in Texas associated with Hurricane Harvey is already triggering discussion about solutions. It is complex. There are three primary flooding forces to consider. Storms pushing water in from the sea. Record rainfall. Rising sea level. They operate quite independently but can combine ...
September 17th, 2017 Category: Sea Level Rise
Irma invited,us to look her in the eye. With record sustained winds of 185 miles per hour, this Category 5 hurricane killed dozens, scraped some Caribbean island nations clean of nearly all structures and then tauntingly threatened one coast of Florida and then the other. Of ...
September 10th, 2017 Category: Sea Level Rise
Texas and Louisiana are still flooded from a week of unrelenting rain in the aftermath of Hurricane / Tropical Storm Harvey. In addition to the record levels of direct rainfall, there is the problem of “runoff” where the water flows to lower ground or downstream, ...
September 4th, 2017 Category: Sea Level Rise
NOTE: the original title of this was “Why We Failed to Predict Harvey.” That was read as an indictment of meteorologists by many. Thus the new title of “Why Harvey Was Such a Surprise” to put the focus on the unusal and relatively sudden buildup ...
August 27th, 2017 Category: Sea Level Rise