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    <title>Lessons from Hurricane Ike</title>
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    <namePart>Bedient, Philip B.</namePart>
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    <publisher>Texas A&amp;M University Press</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2012</dateIssued>
    <edition>1st ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>viii, 194 p. : col. ill., col. maps.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>An introduction to Gulf Coast severe storms and hurricanes / Philip Bedient and Antonia Sebastian -- Hurricane Ike / Philip Bedient and Antonia Sebastian -- A brief introduction to the meteorology of tropical cyclones / Jeffrey Lindner -- Flood prediction and flood warning systems / Jeffrey Lindner, David C. Schwertz, Philip Bedient, and Zheng Fang -- Predicting storm surge / Clint Dawson and Jennifer Proft -- Using social vulnerability mapping to enhance coastal community resiliency / Walter Gillis Peacock, Shannon Van Zandt, Dustin Henry, Himanshu Grover, and Wesley Highfield -- Emergency management and the public / Bill Wheeler -- Emergency evacuation and transportation planning / Carol Abel Lewis -- Lessons in bridge infrastructure vulnerability / Jamie E. Padgett and Matthew Stearns -- Hurricane impacts on critical infrastructures / Hanadi S. Rifai -- Land use change and increased vulnerability / Samuel David Brody -- Steps to the future / Jim Blackburn, Tom Colbert, and Kevin Shanley.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">edited by Philip B. Bedient.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
  <note>Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.</note>
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    <topic>Hurricane Ike, 2008</topic>
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    <geographic>Texas</geographic>
    <geographic>Gulf Coast</geographic>
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    <topic>Hurricane protection</topic>
    <geographic>Texas</geographic>
    <geographic>Gulf Coast</geographic>
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    <topic>Emergency management</topic>
    <geographic>Texas</geographic>
    <geographic>Gulf Coast</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Storm surges</topic>
    <geographic>Texas</geographic>
    <geographic>Gulf Coast</geographic>
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