Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
This site offers a wide variety of useful flood-related information. There is
information on flood mitigation for those who live in flood-prone areas, with things to do
before, during, and after a flood.
It contains background information on the destructive power of floods and flashfloods, including an animation of a car floating in only two feet of water, information on changing views of floodplain management, the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) and the National Flood Insurance Reform Act.
The site includes a map of special flood hazard areas in the U.S., and information on how to obtain FEMA flood insurance rate maps, including the latest digital Q3 flood maps.
Photo archives include pictures of the Midwest floods of 1993 and Louisiana floods of 1995, among other disasters.
The National Dam Safety page contains information on some of the notable dam failure disasters in the 1970's that led to increased dam inspection. There is also a search function, as well as information on earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados, winter storms, and fires, and the Oklahoma City bombing. You can even see quicktime movies of Christmas trees burning.
NASA flood images
Regional image before flood, from Minnesota to Missouri
Regional image during flood, from Minnesota to Missouri
Pre-flood images from September 24, 1992
Peak flood images from August 1, 1993, three days after the flood crest
The images include a brief description, a Mississippi River channel image, and an enlargement of the river channel area.
Army Corps of Engineers 1993 Flood Data
This site has the 1993 flood impact report, maps of flood extent, damage, etc.
The Great Flood of Summer 1993: Mississippi River Discharge Studied
http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/walker.html
This is a paper from Earth in Space Vol. 7, No. 3, November 1994, pp.11-14.
1994 American Geophysical Union, documenting the causes of the Midwest flooding, with a
graph of Mississippi River discharge, satellite imagery, and consequences of the flood in the
Gulf of Mexico.
Scientific Assessment and Strategy Team study of the Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri
River basins
http://edcwww2.cr.usgs.gov/dg9/depot/jessen/HTML/sast-home.html
http://www.ce.utexas.edu/prof/maidment/gishydro/pawel/sast/sast.htm
General information about the flood from the team assembled by President Clinton,
including data, maps (shaded topographic relief, levee database, available water capacity,
hydric soils, surface water ponding, wetlands, and precipitation), and images.
Floods
http://www.eastnc.coastalnet.com/weather/nwsmhx/flds.htm
This site from the National Weather Service in Newport, North Carolina provides
background information and statistics on flashfloods and floods, as well as flood safety rules.
There is information on stream gauging (including a map of stream gauges across the U. S.)
and flood forcasting. Information is provided on National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) Weather Radio (with a listing of cities and the radio frequencies) and
the National Weather Service
The Northwest Flood of 1996
http://www.teleport.com/~samc/flood1.html
Flood-Related Mortality -- Georgia, July 4-14, 1994
http://www.med.upenn.edu/~mednews/aug94/7339_9.html
This site details the aftermath of the flooding which followed Hurricane Alberto.
Legacy of racism dams up post-flood effort in Georgia
http://the-tech.mit.edu/V114/N31/flood.31w.html
National Inventory of Dams
http://corps_geo1.usace.army.mil/hq.html
This site contains a database on more than 75,000 dams throughout the US and its
territories, which is a complete copy of the 1995-96 revised National Inventory of Dams
CD-ROM available from the Army Corps of Engineers. You can download a 6 minute
Powerpoint(tm) slide show with color pictures.
Cooperative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology - Picture Gallery, Flood Display
http://lake.canberra.edu.au/crcfe/Gallery/flood.html
HazardNet
http://hoshi.cic.sfu.ca/~hazard/
This site, at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada is a demonstratieon project
of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction with data, maps, and images. A
section on floods is under development.
National Weather Service
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/
This site provides information on current weather, historical climate data, and
information on weather-related topics, including U.S. coastal tide tables for selected cities.
World Meteorological organization
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/oso/wmo.shtml
http://www.wmo.ch/web/ddbs/ddbs.html
(in Geneva, Switzerland)
This is a specialized agency of the United Nations that exists in part to facilitate
worldwide cooperation in establishing networks of stations for meteorological and
hydrological observations, and to promote the rapid exchange of meteorological and water
related information. The Geneva site contains links to meteorological and hydroligical sites
around the world.
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Georgia Perimeter College, Clarkston Campus, GA
Page created February 19, 1997
