US hits record for costly weather disasters: $306 billion Associated Press » With three strong hurricanes, wildfires, hail, flooding, tornadoes and drought, the United States tallied a record high bill last year for weather disasters. The nation endured 16 disasters last year with damage exceeding a billion dollars, the government said Monday, totaling $306 billion. That tied 2011 for the number of billion-dollar calamities, but it blew past the total cost record of $215 billion in 2005. Michelle2018-01-10T11:04:38-08:00January 9th, 2018|U.S. News, Urban, Wastewater, Water|
Will Self-Driving Cars Usher in a Transportation Utopia or Dystopia? Yale Environment 360 » Despite the optimistic expectations for the emerging industry for safety and environmental friendliness, autonomous vehicles may eventually be widely adopted but if they still use fossil fuels, greenhouse gas emissions would increase by 50 percent by 2050. Michelle2018-01-10T13:18:33-08:00January 8th, 2018|Roads, U.S. News, Urban|
Here’s all the far-out futuristic transportation stuff we’re excited to see at CES The Verge » Here’s a glance of all the things on four wheels, three wheels, two wings, and a flurry of rotors that we’re excited to see. Michelle2018-01-10T12:57:19-08:00January 8th, 2018|U.S. News, Urban|
Low-Lying Boston’s Frigid Flood Risk Reminder Route 50 » Boston Harbor and other coastal areas in New England saw some of their highest tide levels on record on Thursday as a wicked and rapidly intensifying winter storm meteorologists have described as a “bomb cyclone” moved up the East Coast bringing blizzard conditions, frigid temperatures and major snowfall to many areas. Michelle2018-01-08T15:24:07-08:00January 5th, 2018|Massachusetts, Roads, Urban, Wastewater, Water|
Virginia Beach Is Using an IoT-Enabled Sensor Network to Predict Flooding in Real Time Route Fifty » Virginia Beach, Va., is looking to predict the timing and severity of flooding at street level in a year’s time through the multi-jurisdictional StormSense Project, while aims to make the region more resilient and upgrade disaster preparedness. Michelle2017-12-22T09:03:37-08:00December 21st, 2017|Urban, Virginia, Water|
The Most Expensive Weather Year Ever Route Fifty » The extreme weather this year has taken a devastating and unknowable human toll, on families from San Juan to San Francisco. And it has taken economic one as well. It now seems a near-certainty that 2017 will be the most expensive year in American history in terms of natural disasters—and a preview of the trillions of dollars of costs related to climate change yet to come. Michelle2017-12-22T08:40:48-08:00December 20th, 2017|California, Roads, Urban|
