A Mathematician, a Different Kind of Mathematician, and a Statistician
Roomi, a website connecting potential roommates, has just opened up services in Texas. To help renters in Texas prepare for the worst, Emma Goddard interviewed me about how to prepare for a tornado: With a less than shiny reputation for its weather, Texas might have you running for the hills.
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There’s a great article by Jenna Tyler at IUPUI (who doesn’t have a website?) on how to use green infrastructure for sustainable mitigation. The key take away is that FEMA could use smarter funding for hazard mitigation, and create naturally resilient mitigation options. You can read it in the current
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Meghan Larsen at Roomi, a website for apartment renters, interviewed me for an article on preparing for a flood. My two key takeaways are: Have a kit. And this is really true for any kind of emergency. It should have some basic medical supplies, radio, flashlight, candles, and so forth.
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The Arizona Daily Star has a post about recent flood mitigation measures taken in Tucson, and opens with this: “This is a great Christmas present for 600 property owners,” said Tucson City Councilman Steve Kozachik, whose council ward covers some of the affected neighborhoods. Kozachik further says that homeowners will
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There’s a great review article in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction on the Australian approach to government-run disaster risk pools. The key takeaways are: Get your pricing right, Pricing reflective of risk signals peril to market participants, and Financial risk reduction is not real risk reduction. All of
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The NFIP is broke, or so I say in my new article in The Conversation: Floodwaters continue to rise, so it will be days if not weeks before we can calculate the final costs, both in terms of life and property. But regardless, many will be turning to the federal
Continue readingI’ve done this before: Post by James Howard. But I might have a real problem. Apparently MEININGER Hotels posted this: I’ve not verified it was actually posted, mostly because I am afraid of the answer. But when presented with an opportunity at the Château Laurier in Ottawa, I did this:
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