December, 2011 - Richard A. Rula School of Civil & Environmental Engineering - Bagley College of Engineering

States of Disaster

The states in the southeastern part of the country have many names, but from the Volunteer to the Bayou, the Magnolia to the Yellowhammer, recently they’ve all simply been called states of disaster. This spring, the region was inundated by unprecedented weather events that caused widespread devastation. Snowmelt from a record-breaking blizzard in the Northeast…

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