Iowa Flooding Datasets and Economic Impact Data
June 13th, 2008by Sean Gorman
With all of the havoc being wreaked by flooding in Iowa and across the Midwest we thought it would be useful to post up some of the data we’ve been collecting as the disaster unfolds. It is a small thing but hopefully helpful to folks in the community responding. My sister who lives in Iowa has been filling sandbags till the wee hours trying to keep the water our of the Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids. I figured this was the least we could do.
All dataset coming in will be tagged iowa-floods and you can see all of them at the tag page for the on Finder!.
Currently we have only a few datasets but several more will be up shortly:
USGS, Real-time Streamflow, USA, 6-13-08
USGS WaterWatch, Daily Streamflow Map, USA, 6.12.2008
BEA, Farm Income by County, 2006
BEA, Farm Employment by County, 2006
Digital Flood Insurance Rate Data for Johnson County, IA
500 Year Flood Zone for Johnson County, IA
Red Cross, Midwest Sites and Shelters for Iowa Flooding, June 17th 2008
The data is available in KML, Shapefile, and .CSV file formats.
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June 13th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Iowa Flooding “Reconnecting Families and Individuals”
For Immediate Release:
Iowa USA
Friday, June 13, 2008
NOKR is asking anyone that may have a missing or potentially injured family member due to the flooding situation in Iowa to register this person with the Next of Kin Registry.
Register at: http://www.nokr.org
Registered contact information will be passed on to area emergency officials responding to this disaster.
The NOKR organization has initiated contact with the Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management office to offer any assistance possible to help reunify individuals and families displaced by this tragic flooding.
The Next of Kin Registry (NOKR)
Can be found in the following area in Iowa
State of Iowa website (Public Safety Services)
http://www.iowa.gov/state/main/safetyservices.html
US Governments Portal USA.gov (Under Family Services)
http://www.usa.gov/Government/State_Local/Health.shtml
Next of Kin National Registry
About NOKR:
The Next Of Kin Registry (NOKR) was established as a FREE tool for daily emergencies and national disasters. NOKR is an emergency contact system to help if you or your family member is missing, injured or deceased. NOKR provides the public a free proactive service to store emergency contacts, next of kin and vital medical information that would be critical to emergency response agencies. Stored information is only accessible via a secure area that is only accessible by emergency public trust agencies that have registered with NOKR.
NOKR encourages every township, county, municipality, city, state and nation to take ownership of the NOKR. This resource belongs to you, your citizens and to your emergency agencies. Take the NOKR registration forms and add your own identifying symbols.
NOKR is a humanitarian organization. As part of our mission to society NOKR has created a trusted safeguarding system for all personal emergency contacts worldwide. NOKR does not own the information we store, this information belongs to the registrants and is made available securely to registered emergency agencies during times of urgent need.
NOKR is a non-partisan; non-profit 501(c)(3) dedicated to bridging rapid emergency contact information. NOKR was established in January 2004, for daily emergency situations.
The NOKR’s system is used during daily emergencies and was utilized for the following national and global disasters.
2004 Asian Tsunami
2005 London Bombing
2005 Hurricane Disasters
2005 Mudslide Guatemala
2006 India Train Bombing
2006 Indonesia Earthquake
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2007 Virginia Tech College Shooting
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Some of the medias are interested only in Live coverage of the videos about the disasters of Floods,Earthquakes, accidents,etc.I didn’t saw a media man helping people who are in trouble. It is shameful.As a citizen it is also our duty to help others.
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