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Broward s Resilience Dashboard includes the Flood Factor mapping tool to see what a property s future flood risk looks like.
The county modeled the new dashboard, armed with tools to check personal property flood risk, after its coronavirus dashboard was well received.
Broward County s recently unveiled resilience dashboard is a home page of sorts for environmental resources and in-progress projects to fight the effects of climate change.
You can also search through tabs about clean energy, beach renourishment, solar power and projects happening in specific cities across Broward.
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Miami Herald Homero Giviria, 76, walks past a flooded Aventura apartment on his way to work in December 2019.
When Hurricane Irma roared across South Florida in September 2017, winds cut off power to the elderly residents at the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills, leaving them in suffocating heat for more than three days.
As rooms in the 152-bed facility heated up, residents began having trouble breathing. Their temperatures soared. Fourteen people died, including Pedro Franco’s parents.
“It didn’t have to be that way,” said Franco, who sued the facility for negligence. It was 100 percent avoidable.”
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Miles Of Florida Roads Face Major Problem From Sea Rise Is State Moving Fast Enough? wlrn.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wlrn.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Originally published on February 9, 2021 3:21 pm
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection says local governments need to know their risk for sea-level rise. Some agencies are already making their own projections. The Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact estimates by 2040; seas will rise in some South Florida communities by more than three feet. We ve been challenged with issues of sea-level rise for more than a decade. It s just been a very hot topic the last 15 or so years, says Jennifer Jurado. She s Broward County s Chief Resiliency Officer and represented the Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact during a meeting today with lawmakers.