Presentation # 2 & #3 India and Piermont

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:

1. Define a problem
2. find a solution
3. find a place in another part of the world with that problem
4. look and compare their solutionns to our solutions

We have found out:

1. Flooding in Piermont
2. UNKOWN
3. India (maybe chicago but we do not have much information
4. 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

Week 4

Ever progressing, we're 4 weeks in meaning we've had only 4 or 5 meetings .. i'm trying to imagine if we had 4 meetings in one or two weeks, could we be where we are now?

The build team is really striding. We're all hoping the robot is going to work. I think we should have a backup plan as well. They all want to build, so they should.

We're all gearing up for missions, and making our planning as solid as possible. Each team is adjusting to the coming robot, and there's still much to do. The robot team has to speed up.

Bret and his research team are really picking up a lot of information about this project, from flooding in chicago to india. Now we have to find some experts in the field to find out how they deal with it and come up with a solution of their own. So two parts of the project are down. I really want to have a wonderful creative solution and presentation for them to knock'm dead.



this week we have two meetings, and saturday meetings to come in october, november and december. As busy as we are, we need to have a little fun