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“11 South Mississippi projects authorized by water resources bill signed by Obama today”

Lots of restoration and buyouts.
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If you want a quick handbook for floodplain management in Mississippi, you ought to check out the free Quick Guide http://j.mp/11wqWLD

Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant has made a couple of videos on reducing damage from natural hazards. Here’s one of two (this one on wind):

. . . and here’s the second (this one on flooding).

If you haven’t heard, the Nature Conservancy and others have launched a sweet new site on sea level rise in the Gulf of Mexico. I wrote a quick overview here: http://j.mp/175Rzso

If you’re doing an sea level rise work, it’s worth checking out.

Sea Grant Law Center has released a cool new handbook for planning for community resiliency. Check it out. http://us.stormsmart.org/2013/04/08/another-great-resource-for-community-resilience-planning/

Since I live in a “surge” zone in Jackson County, MS, during Hurricane Isaac I was carefully monitoring the Surge Prediction function for the storm at noaa.gov. It was updated frequently, gave precise information at useful resolution, and in the end was spot-on accurate for my site. I will definitely use this in future storms.

Here’s a quick way to figure out hurricane based erosion. Well done, USGS.
St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center

For those on today’s call, the correct date/location for the Mississippi Smart Growth conference is November 7 and 8 at the Hard Rock Casino in Biloxi. More details as we get them.

“The Senate on Thursday unanimously passed House Bill 773, which removes an exemption for hunting and fishing camps and farm structures from meeting floodplain regulations. Last year, FEMA warned that unless the exemption was removed by May 5, the state could lose its NFIP certification and 88,000 property owners would lose their federal flood…[Read more]

JACKSON — State lawmakers are working to change a law that could cause the state to be booted out of the National Flood Insurance Program and put thousands of homeowners, and their mortgages, at risk.

Another rough day for Mississippi: Mississippi ranks last in building standards
A report that rates Mississippi far worse than other coastal states at mandating and enforcing building standards should be a wake-up call for policy makers, Robert Hartwig of the Insurance Information Institute said Monday.

Mississippi to be booted out of National Flood Insurance Program? Anybody have an inside scoop on this they can share?
CLEVELAND, Miss. — The federal government has rejected a request for a waiver from a flood mitigation ordinance for hunting and fishing camps located in the Mississippi Delta.