🌎 Creating better disaster modeling tools for rural communities by crowdsourcing flood photos & surveys! 💦 Focus: MI's Baraga & Houghton Counties
Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula
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💧 As our climate continues to move to more extremes, frequency of intense storms increase.
💧We develop flooding & coastal disaster resilience tools to inform Keweenaw emergency managers, local officials, and other community members ➡ linktr.ee/RuralHazTools – at Houghton, MI
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(1/2) A campus like Michigan Technological University is a place of growth - not just academically, but physically! Development along the Portage Waterway offers unique views and research access, but requires consideration of the realities of changing water levels...
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Utilizing the Rural Hazard Resiliency Visualization tool offers organizations like MTU the ability to understand how their locations in the Keweenaw interplay with the landscape and water should flooding and rising waters occur ➡️ linktr.ee/RuralHazTools
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Unseasonably warm weather and heavy rain can bring on sudden flooding conditions across our roads and near homes. 💧 See how your home and travel routes can be impacted: linktr.ee/RuralHazTools
Two seasons in less than a day: System brings potentially soaking rain through Wednesday morning, then snowy changeover in the afternoon driven by cold northerly winds.
Forecast: uppermichiganssource.com/202…
NWS Alerts: uppermichiganssource.com/wea…
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Letting the evidence speak. 🗣
As you layer on Inland Flooding data over the map in our GIS Visualization Tool, you'll see how predictions match what happens to our reality...
#GIS #Keweenaw #floodplanning – at Houghton, MI
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Conditions on Lake Superior can change at a moments notice. 🌊
Having knowledge about its long and short term forces could save your home or your life. ➡️ wupcoastalhazards.org/
#ClimateChange #LakeSuperior #GreatLakes #Keweenaw – at Houghton, MI
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🆘️ Emergency plans, who needs 'em? 🙋♀️ Everyone!
[1/3] Familiar roads throughout the Keweenaw, like M-203, provide essential passage to homes, work, and play.
With our GIS visualization tool, it's possible to see how inland flooding (highlighted in blue) – at Michigan, USA
No mystic arts, just hard science and data right at your fingertips.
Future proof:
🚧 new construction or infrastructure
🏠existing property or potential home purchase
🚗emergency escape routes
See how flooding can effect your plans with our tool ➡ mihazard.ml/
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FEMA flood maps versus the Rural Hazard Resilience Tools visualization GIS map. From "No data" to a wealth of rich, customizable information.
Research and community collaboration pays off. Planners, road commissions, citizens, emergency workers... this tool is free for all!
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💲Lower Cost 🌎 Greater Accessibility ⤵️
Traditional flood mapping can incur huge expense for rural communities, but combining remote sensing data and citizen engagement will update flood maps at a significantly lower cost!
Discover RHRT Today! ➡ linktr.ee/RuralHazTools – at Houghton, MI
June 17th, 2018.
While the Keweenaw slept, the rains fell. On that Father's Day, summer rain brought a flood that caused more than $100 Million worth of public infrastructure damage... not to mention the lasting emotional toll and heartbreak to residents of the Keweenaw. (1/5) – at Houghton, MI
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See the work in action! The #GIS Visualization Tool allows to you create and view models based on the current research.
Tools like this allow emergency planners and community leaders to make more informed decisions about where #naturaldisasters like #flooding may occur! #NSFGOV – at Houghton, MI
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🗺️ Community photo submissions. In-depth scientific research. Collaboration. All together, we're making tools to allow emergency managers and other leaders make more informed decisions about where flooding may occur.
Explore and Create Your Own Models: mihazard.ml/ – at Michigan, USA
Heavy rains and thunder throughout the Keweenaw last night through this morning. Heavy water accumulation can wash over roads or cause flooding - keep an eye out and record any flooding you witness at the link in our Bio!
Scattered showers and storms will continue day as a system moves through. These could produce heavy rain and strong winds. Behind this snow develops tomorrow with lake effect snow ramping up this weekend!
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💧Rainfall. ❄️Fast-melting snow. ✅Know what steps to take to prepare yourself before, during, and after a flood to protect your home and family ⤵️ – at Houghton, MI
Travel safely today - wet and slushy!! – at Michigan, USA
WINTER STORM UPDATE: Wet heavy snow increases across the west and central counties. Hazards: strong wind gusts 45+mph, limited visibility, lake shore flooding, power outages, and slushy roads.
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Rain and wet heavy snow on our way. Should temps rise, melting snow accumulation can contribute to flood or washout conditions.
Remember to report any flood you see with us!
A winter storm will bring wet heavy dense snow to the area from tonight through Tuesday. Snowfall amounts could push near two feet in some higher elevations. Impacts include difficult travel & widespread power outages from wind gusts near 50mph.
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Severe thunderstorms have been seen today, and rain in slated for the remainder of the week. Be on alert, and if you see/experience flooding, report it with us!
#Keweenaw – at Houghton, MI
A Severe Thunderstorm Warning is in effect until 10/12 9:15AM EDT for the highlighted counties. If you are in the path of this storm, take cover immediately. #906wx
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Floods are the most prevalent natural disaster in America, and it doesn't just happen in the height of summer... Fall brings chilly rains and rapid snowmelt can cause flooding.
What do you do when standing water has accumulated over your well pit? ⤵️ – at Michigan, USA
"CIVIC Innovation Challenge summit provides us an opportunity to share the work that we have been doing for a year to the Federal Agencies and highlight the needs of rural communities."
- Dr. @Tom_oommen | @michigantech
#civicinnovation #ruralresilience
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From the Keweenaw 🛫 to Washington D.C.!
The WUPPDR team and Dr. @Tom_oommen (@michigantech) are presenting this project to the National Science Foundation (@NSF) at the Civic Innovation Challenge Showcase.
#ruralresiliency #floodhazards – at Washington, DC
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