Number	23587
Subject	Natural Disaster
Source	Register (Mobile, Ala.)
State	AL
Year	2007
Publication Date	6/10 - 6/12
Summary	"This series revealed how seriously inaccurate federal flood maps for coastal Alabama have contributed to hurricane flood losses, encouraged unsafe construction, and influenced people to forego flood insurance." FEMA’s flood maps drastically underestimate the reality of coastal flooding in large areas of Alabama; the author used GIS to show that floods in the area are six to nine times more frequent than federal predictions.
Category	Contest Entry
Pages	38
Keywords	environment; hurricane; GIS; FEMA: disaster relief; insurance; mapping
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