The Pittsburgh Urban Flooding Journal
Chronicling the stories behind flooding in the Pittsburgh region.
Last week, another national report was released covering the national chronic and epidemic illness of urban flooding. The report is titled “Urban Flooding Moving Towards Resilience” and was released by the Association of State Floodplain Managers Foundation. Click here if you care to read the full report. I’m going to post my personal highlights and …
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If you’ve been reading this blog you should know by now that I have deep insatiable desire for numbers, math, coding, engineering, making colorful interactive maps, David Letterman top ten lists and Seinfeld episodes. I also really enjoy reading great non-fiction history and biographical writing. Writings that peel off the external layers of the onion …
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Good news, this blog was featured in an article last week published by Public Source and Environmental Health News about the challenges of regional flooding. If you have not read it yet, get busy doing so. It’s great. Click here or here. I think it goes without saying, and obvious to all, that press coverage …
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“In time and with water, everything changes.” – Leonardo da Vinci c. 1513 To me, the essence of Leonardo da Vinci’s timeless artistic works was his ability to capture the beauty of movement. He was able to take a single snap shot in time and bring his subjects to life with the stroke of a …
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This one is going to be a quickie but goodie blog post. This past weekend I spent a little time doing a big update to the flooding archives webpage. If you don’t know what this is feel free to click on the link. Upon viewing it should be pretty self explanatory. It’s a table that …
Halloween 2019 broke all-time rainfall records across the Pittsburgh region. With the historic rainfall brought widespread flooding across the Pittsburgh region primarily in the western portions of Allegheny County. Rainfall totals were upwards of 2.5 inches in some places according to radar rainfall estimates. The “official” rainfall at the Pittsburgh National Weather Service recorded 1.98 …
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Some of you may have been wondering why no posts for the past couple weeks. Well you need not fret no more. I’m back and ready to deliver more content to my thousands upon thousands of blog subscribers. Okay dozens. Okay seven of you. This one’s going to be a bit of a long one …
Flooding is a problem in our region and Allegheny County. Check out my previous blog post to get a sense for how much it’s a problem. But it’s a national problem. Make no mistake about it, most of the nation has a flooding illness. Our region is by no means alone in combating its flooding …
I like to compare the experience of surfing Twitter to the outbound lanes of the Fort Pitt tunnel. When you get down to it, Twitter is a lot like trying to jam four lanes of 50 mph highway traffic into a two lane hole. We are trying our best to make this situation work smoothly …
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Firstly, before we get to the subject matter at hand. I’ve received many heart felt positive reactions from close friends and colleagues since I launched this blog a week or so ago. Many of these folks are individuals I’ve met over the course of my career in which I have a great deal of respect …
The Pittsburgh Urban Flooding Journal