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SI Advance: When the remnants of Hurricane Ida barreled through New York City, Staten Island saw levels of rainfall not witnessed in recent memory. Residents in parts of the borough spared from the worst of Hurricane Sandy’s wrath now found themselves vulnerable to a different type of flooding. A report issued last Wednesday by Rebuild by Design and One […]

NY1: Darinko Mrvica and his family have lived in his well-manicured brick home in Whitestone, Queens, for 40 years. The basement floods about every four, he said. During Hurricane Ida, water from the intense rainfall spilled over the top of his sunken driveway, climbing halfway up his garage doors and causing one of them to

City Limits: The Adams administration released a plan Thursday to address heavy rainfall in the immediate lead-up to and aftermath of an extreme weather event—nearly a year after Hurricane Ida, when flash-flooding took the lives of 13 New Yorkers. As part of the new initiative, dubbed Rainfall Ready NYC, the city updated its flood maps and outlined

NY Daily News Opinion, by Amy Chester and Lot Locher: Last summer, back-to-back heavy rainfalls broke two records 10 days apart, leaving 13 New Yorkers dead. This week, Mayor Adams unveiled a new interactive flood map and action plan so that all New Yorkers can reduce their own risk to heavy rainfall. As climate change brings with it even

Longmont Times-Call: The Boulder County commissioners this week approved an initial slate of 10 projects to address disparities exposed by the pandemic using American Rescue Plan Act relief money. Projects include providing direct cash assistance to families with young children, creating a new mental health services navigation hub and supporting affordable housing projects. The projects, totaling

Examiner Plus: In November, New York voters have the opportunity to greenlight a landmark $4.2 Environmental Bond Act, which, if approved, will provide communities across the state with much-needed dollars to fortify themselves in the fight against climate change. New Yorkers have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to voice their support for building resilience and mitigation strategies

Newsweek: There are a million ways to die in New York City but drowning in a rainstorm is not something many New Yorkers have ever worried about. That changed last September when the remnants of Hurricane Ida hit the Big Apple, unleashing 80- mile-an-hour winds and dumping three-and-a-half inches of rain in a single hour, almost

Longmont Leader: A $1.5 million infusion of “seed money” for an early childhood community village in southeast Longmont is one of the proposals being weighed by the Boulder County Commissioners, who will decide where to distribute  pieces of $63 million in American Rescue Plan Act relief money. The early childhood center would encompass training for

Daily Camera: Providing direct cash assistance to low-income families, investing in affordable housing projects and creating a mental health community response team are among the proposed Boulder County projects to address disparities exposed by the pandemic. Three working groups, tasked with developing ideas to spend the just over $63 million in American Rescue Plan Act