Friday, June 20, 2008

Mosquito Flats Picture - Flood Boundaries


Mosquito Flats Picture - Courtesy of Douglas W. Jones

I took the lines from the FEMA floodplain map for the neighborhood and
superimposed them on an image of the neighborhood from Google Earth.
The FEMA map alone is a problem because it isn't easy to visualize where
the houses are relative to the abstract street and floodplain lines.

Since this flood was about a foot over the 500 year line, based on where
it came on Normandy Drive and Grenada Court, the 500 year line on the
FEMA map is a good line to follow to see which houses were likely to have
water up near their first floor level.

-- Doug Jones

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