Flooding
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The 1990 flood used to be the big Whatcom County flood – until 2021 and 2025. Floodwaters overtopped the banks of the Nooksack River and spread through Everson, neighboring small cities, and up into Abbotsford, British Columbia. John Perry talked about “How we prepare before a flood, how we respond during a flood, how we…
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Stilt homes can be found along the Gulf Coast and up and down the Atlantic coast. Stilt houses, houseboats, and floating homes are forms of vernacular architecture.
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The idea of a sponge city is “…to allow the natural flow to come back”; to use natural features, wetlands, floodplains to work like sponges, absorbing, filtering, and retaining rainwater instead of quickly draining it away.
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The Netherlands has been battling the sea for centuries. The flood disaster of 1953 prompted the Delta Works. The same flood led to the Thames Barrier….
cloudy climate 