Jeremy Porter is a professor of quantitative methods in the social sciences at the City University of New York. Deadly and destructive flash flooding in Texas and several other states in July 2025 is ...
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Under water: How FEMA's outdated flood maps incentivize a system in which risk is negotiable
When Camp Mystic wanted to build in Central Texas areas considered high risk on Federal Emergency Management Agency flood insurance maps, it did what many property owners do: It hired engineers to ...
(The Conversation) – Deadly and destructive flash flooding in Texas and several other states in July 2025 is raising questions about the nation’s flood maps and their ability to ensure that ...
Leading flood insurance provider explores how outdated and incomplete FEMA flood maps underestimate flood risk FEMA’s flood maps have long been the foundation of how Americans understand and manage ...
The Texas Legislature passed a requirement in its special session that children’s cabins at camps are not to be built within the floodplain. But how are floodplains determined? By a group within ...
A deadly flash flood on July 4, 2025, swept through Nancy Callery's childhood home in Hunt, Texas. Brandon Bell/Getty Images Deadly and destructive flash flooding in Texas and several other states in ...
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