Daniel is an amazing young man and we wish him all the best. He has always been kind to my children…Read More and a volunteer in our community. My husband and I are lucky to know this family! We are happy to help in anyway possible to make Daniel's homecoming happen!
It's WHAFIS, not WHALIS, and it MUST be incorporated in the overland wave propagation modeling. I've…Read More been telling you this for weeks @Spooner. I offered to discuss it, but you were caught up on some sand blaster theory. BFE's will certainly be affected. As a sidebar, the author of the link mentioned mixed up the mapping terms. We currently have effective maps or FIRM's which establish BFE. The maps (ABFE)that were released in December and adopted as the state building code (+ freeboard) are advisory (incomplete and wrong). Working maps are due out in a few weeks followed shortly thereafter by preliminary maps, which are the maps that can be appealed. Approximately 18 to 24 months after the release of the preliminary maps there will be new effective maps (new FIRM's) with new BFE 's. If the preliminary maps are not drastically different than the ABFE's, you can count on a mass of appeals, and quite likely, protracted litigations.
@Spooner, I have something that you may want to read. Go to the Borough of Mantoloking website. On…Read More the right hand side is a column entitled Post Sandy Information. Near the bottom is a tab called "uncategorized". Click on it and there is a letter used as the Boro response to ABFE. It is very telling and makes a lot of sense.
Congrats, Pat. You deserve this. Despite all you've been through, you kept it going with your job,…Read More your writing, and all the "chronicles" that expressed the plight of the Sandy victims in a way that no one else could. That has been so appreciated.
You always did a great job !! Congratulations on your next journey in Life!! Thanks for keeping…Read More us informed!! I hope this posting isnt rejected