The Houston Hurricane Simulator

On September 11th 2008 the National Weather Service issued a severe alarm to Houston residents,

ALL NEIGHBORHOODS, AND POSSIBLY ENTIRE COASTAL COMMUNITIES, WILL BE INUNDATED. PERSONS NOT HEEDING EVACUATION ORDERS IN SINGLE FAMILY ONE OR TWO STORY HOMES WILL FACE CERTAIN DEATH.

The alarm was issued because of the imminent threat of Hurricane Ike, which at the fourth dimension was heading straight towards key Houston. Luckily, on September 13th, Hurricane Ike shifted course of teaching as well as eventually hitting province a picayune N of the city. The tempest withal caused $30 billion inwards impairment as well as killed at to the lowest degree 74 people inwards Texas.

The Texas Tribune as well as ProPublica debate that it is alone a thing of fourth dimension earlier a perfect tempest will hitting Houston, potentially killing thousands of residents.

Hell as well as High Water is a mapped visualization of the dangers Houston faces from a hereafter hurricane. The mapped interactive simulates the probable effects of a number of potential storms on the metropolis of Houston. Each of these simulations overlays the rail of a potential tempest over a satellite persuasion of the city. These tracks are thus animated to exhibit the probable flooding events that could accept house inwards Houston if such a tempest hitting the city.

The Texas Tribune argues that non plenty has been done to protect the metropolis from potential hereafter storms. doc Bill Merrell, a marine scientist at Texas A&M University, believes that the metropolis needs to laid floodgates at the entrance to Galveston Bay. He predicts something volition hold upwards built - iv years after the adjacent devastating hurricane.