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Name: Joseph Bean
Date registered: October 5, 2011

Latest posts

  1. PDC Global Flood Survey — April 25, 2013
  2. PDC Global Flood Survey — April 18, 2013
  3. PDC Global Flood Survey — March 21, 2013
  4. PDC Global Flood Survey — March 7, 2013
  5. PDC Global Flood Survey — January 3, 2013

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Dec
12
2012

PDC Global Flood Survey

Turn around, don’t drown. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) trademarked the phrase “Turn Around Don’t Drown” or TADD. Then worked closely with the Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration to develop two officially sanctioned road signs. NOAA knows, and wants everyone to know, that even quite shallow flood waters are dangerous for both …

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Dec
06
2012

PDC Global Flood Survey

Flooding is an extended process. A flood is more than an event. Like all hazards, flooding can be looked upon as a process extending from the planning and preparation accomplished when there is no known threat, to the special actions (like evacuation) taken when the hazard is imminent, through the flooding event itself, and finally, …

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Nov
18
2011

9.5 Million People Experience Flooding in Southeast Asia

PDC Global Hazards Atlas showing six months of flooding events in the area…with 3 day accumulated precipitation

Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and other Southeast Asian countries continue to battle flooding as a result of prolonged monsoon rains, typhoons and storms. Torrential precipitation and overflowing rivers have affected over nine million people, in what are being called the worst floods in more than 50 years. In response to these events Pacific Disaster Center (PDC) …

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