{"id":2786,"date":"2009-09-26T09:26:55","date_gmt":"2009-09-26T13:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/where-and-why-flooding-happens.html"},"modified":"2009-09-26T09:26:55","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T13:26:55","slug":"where-and-why-flooding-happens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/where-and-why-flooding-happens.html","title":{"rendered":"Where and why flooding happens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/a>\nMichael E. Kanell and Ty Tagami, writing in the AJC about\n\nMore than 16,000 flood-related claims filed in Atlanta area<\/a>,\nquote Robert Klein, professor of risk and insurance at Georgia State University:\n
\nMoreover, the maps that set out those high-risk areas are \u201cwoefully\ninadequate,\u201d he said.\n

\nMaps should be recalibrated to account for continued development and\nsprawl, he said: destruction of trees, paving of roads and parking lots,\naddition of new homes to older areas and landscaping all change the way\nwater drains \u2014 or doesn\u2019t drain.\n<\/blockquote>\nAnd maybe somebody should do something about that continued development and sprawl.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael E. Kanell and Ty Tagami, writing in the AJC about More than 16,000 flood-related claims filed in Atlanta area, quote Robert Klein, professor of risk and insurance at Georgia State University: Moreover, the maps that set out those high-risk areas are \u201cwoefully inadequate,\u201d he said. Maps should be recalibrated to account for continued development […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[21,55],"tags":[372,300,6066,304,2155,2821,1183,8711,310,6065,1167,155],"class_list":["post-2786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-planning","category-water","tag-atlanta","tag-development","tag-drains","tag-flooding","tag-insurance","tag-maps","tag-paving","tag-planning","tag-risk","tag-robert-klein","tag-sprawl","tag-trees"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-IW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}