By Teresa Elliot,Alex K. Tang
On December 1-4, 2007, a sequence of storms with hurricane-force winds and heavy rains lashed the U.S. Pacific Northwest, hitting southwestern Washington and northwestern Oregon particularly difficult. those storms dropped 37 cm (14.5 in) of rain with gusts as much as 206 km/h (129 mph). The storms triggered significant flooding and landslides, taking 5 lives and inflicting wide harm to infrastructure through the region.
This TCLEE file discusses intimately the consequences of the Pacific Northwest Storms on lifeline infrastructure platforms: highways, electrical energy, water, wastewater/stormwater, telecommunications, coasts and waterways, and emergency reaction. Chapters specialise in a specific process and supply an outline of the system’s functionality, following by way of a dialogue of the process, its harm, the emergency reaction, and get well. each one bankruptcy finishes with observations and recommendations.
This monograph may be of specific curiosity to civil engineers, managers, planners, and govt officers charged with retaining lifeline infrastructure structures in the course of severe wind occasions and different traditional hazards.
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