About a month ago, I began the process of asking for support for the blog from readers. To date 8 people have responded, which is nice, but more would be welcome.

Regarding content, you may find it interesting to know that the most popular topics covered recently in the blog postings (based on the page view hit count) are as follows:

FEMA
Hurricane Sandy
Floods/Flood Damage
Mitigation
Earthquakes
Natural Disasters and Climate Change
Sequestration

In the four years that I have been writing the blog, I have published 645 postings, which have received almost 59,000 views.  What remains to be done is some analyses of the postings and most popular topics so that future postings can be planned that will  be of  interest to the readers.

Lifting a Town to Escape the Next Storm

But four months after Hurricane Sandy almost obliterated downtown Highlands, an unlikely idea with one enormous historical antecedent seems to be taking hold here: Don’t just raise the buildings. Raise the town.

After all, officials in the modest, largely working-class community note, something quite similar was done, with the most rudimentary technologies, to save Galveston, Tex., which was raised as much as 17 feet after more than 6,000 people perished in the great hurricane of 1900. Yes, even the proponents here concede, it will be a long shot to persuade the federal government to spend more than $25 million to raise Highlands’s downtown 10 feet as a permanent solution to flooding, storm damage and rising seas.

New:

Feb. 27: From Gov Exec.com.

Feb. 26: this article about disaster preparedness the effects of less funding.