Presentation #2
- Monsoon floods killed 59 in the past 3 days and 2,364 since June
- Authorities are using motorboats and military helicopters
- house collapse has killed 14 people
- 6 feet of deep water
- 4.7 in. fell in 5 hrs.
- Piermont's location is a penninsula in the Hudson River
- it is south of the tappan zee bridge
- piermont is on the west bank of the hudson river
- some ideas for peventing water damage are : water drainage, dam/ levees, water paths, more storm drains, lifting houses.
- some of these ideas may never work but water drainage and more storm drains are the most possible of them all
Presentation #3
Or reasearch project is to:
- Define a problem
- find a solution
- find a place in another part of the world with that problem
- look and compare their solutionns to our solutions
We have found out:
- Flooding in Piermont
- UNKOWN
- India (maybe chicago but we do not have much information
- UNKNOWN
Some other information is:
- The Brahmaputra River floods Northeast India
- 170 villages were in waist deep water
- "Kaziranga National Park, home to tigers, elephants, panthers, bears, and the world’s largest population of one-horned rhinoceroses, was also more than 50 percent flooded, said BBC."
- Rain flooded the Mahanadi River in Orissa India
- "Not only is the Mahanadi clearly swollen in this image, but its northern neighbor, the Brahmani is also flooded. "
- The Brahmani river has flooded almost 1,850 villages and is said to be the worst flood in 50 years.
- The floods killed 29 people and affected mor than 4 million