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Plagued by flooding and inadequate infrastructure, residents of "secret little paradise" Jefferson Chalmers are frustrated by government solutions.
"Jefferson Chalmers' risk is not sewage backup. Jefferson Chalmers' risk is the river overflowing when the Great Lakes water levels rise, and so FEMA has placed it in a floodplain," Duggan said.
Government flood maps are not up to date; they don't reflect the risk of flooding in a changing climate. So the risk analysis firm First Street Foundation took a respected climate model and ...
The May 1995 Louisiana flood, also known as the May 1995 Southeast Louisiana and Southern Mississippi Flood, was a heavy rainfall event which occurred across an area stretching from the New Orleans metropolitan area into southern Mississippi. A storm total rainfall maximum of 27.5 inches (700 mm) was recorded near Necaise, Mississippi. [1]
The weather luck for northern Ohio has run out. After a pleasant day for the total eclipse on Monday − a rather rainy and stormy week is on tap.. The National Weather Service says there's a risk ...
The Jefferson–Chalmers Historic Business District is a neighborhood located on East Jefferson Avenue between Eastlawn Street and Alter Road in Detroit, Michigan. The district is the only continuously intact commercial district remaining along East Jefferson Avenue, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
Today, the expanded facility is the only petroleum refinery in Michigan, and it has a capacity of 140,000 barrels per day and around 540 employees. [23] The refinery received the Energy Star Award in 2007 and 2008 from the Environmental Protection Agency for reducing energy usage and protecting the environment through energy efficiency. [ 24 ]
Floodwaters forced people out of their homes in parts of Iowa, the result of weeks of rain, while much of the United States longed for relief Saturday from yet another round of extraordinary heat.