Cinema Corner

Lest We Forget

This is an assembly of video clips going back to the catastrophic Dutch flood of 1953. The videos are clustered under six (6) headings;

1) Storm surge/Sandy video montage and other local Background

2) Storm Surge Explained

3) Storm Surge Barrier Deployment, New Bedford and other New England Hurricane Barriers

4) NY-NJ-LI Storm Surge Protection

5) International examples

6) Sandy era videos

7) Panel Archive

Section 1. Storm surge/Sandy montage, and other local background videos

These Five Videos show the catastrophic Dutch Flood of January 1953

A link to view an additional slideshow showcasing the damages from the 1953 Flood. https://allthatsinteresting.com/north-sea-flood#21

An additional article discussing the 1953 Flood. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/arcadia/north-sea-flood-1953

Dutch Flood 1953

Storms and Floods hit Europe 1953

Hundreds Die in Dutch Floods

Rotterdam & the 1953 North Sea Flood Disaster

Hurricane Sandy Hits the Surfside Motel in Howard Beach

What the Lowlands can teach about warding off high water

Section 2. Storm Surge Explained

Understanding Past Storm Surges, Predicting Future Storms in New York Harbor and Long Island

Presented to the SoMAS community by Professor Malcolm Bowman, Hamish Bowman, and Keith Roberts.

Understanding Storm Surge

Storm Surge Explained in 3D

Not All Storm is the Same

Storm Tracker

Section 3. Storm Surge Barrier Deployment; New Bedford and other New England Hurricane Barriers

Various newscast segments including before/during Sandy, showing deployment of both harbor gates and adjacent landside deployable barrier (which required a not insignificant effort and might put some of the deployable aspects of Big U-like projects in a realistic light). Protection afforded to New Bedford during Sandy provides implicit comparison with both NY-NJ Sandy experience and background re: some of the deployables that might be needed for local projects.

Hurricane Barrier Holds Strong

Fox Point Barrier Withstands Sandy

New Barrier Cam Installed at Fox Point

A Rare LOOK Inside The Hurricane Barrier - New Bedford, MA

Section 4. NY-NJ Storm Surge Protection

Examples of Conceptual Regional Storm Surge Barrier Systems presented at the 2009 Conference "Against the Deluge: Storm Surge Barriers to Protect New York City". Conference sponsored by the Infrastructure Group of the Metropolitan Section of ASCE; Environmental Sciences Section of the New York Academy of Sciences; Department of Civil Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of New York University. Publication sponsored by the Coasts, Oceans, Ports, and Rivers Institute of ASCE March 30-31.. https://ascelibrary.org/doi/book/10.1061/9780784412527