N.Y.U. officials said that, storm warnings notwithstanding, there was every reason to expect the Smilow building to be protected; the building was designed to withstand surges 20 percent higher than had historically occurred.
Because of the secrecy constraints, the lawyers argued in a letter to the commission dated Dec. 8, there could never be a full public airing of how the $700 million plant, which would be 1,200 feet long and 180 feet wide, would be designed to withstand hurricanes, surging tides, accidents or attacks.
It's political correctness gone mad! Dr Joshua Reiss from the centre for digital music at Queen Mary, University of London has come up with a device designed to pre-empt surging sonic aggression before it gets hot under the collar.
That data was fed into a computer program known as a slosh (for Sea, Lake, and Overland Surge from Hurricanes), which is designed to predict storm surges... New York City has a much greater potential for surge-related disaster than officials had previously suspected.
In this paper, we propose a large-scale nationwide ridesharing system named CountryRoads, which is designed to resolve the surge of homeward-bound persons during holiday seasons.
Coral Group and other existing Fon investors also contributed to the round which is designed to meet the surge in demand for WiFi from smartphone and tablet users, and to expand in the US and other markets.
Idealized experiments are designed to simulate storm surge with different domain sizes under various hurricane intensities, radius of maximum wind (RMW), translation speeds and landfall directions, coastal ocean bottom slopes, and continental shelf extents.
Mr. Romski said that a heavy-duty, sophisticated drainage system, designed to handle flood surges, was instrumental in mitigating flooding.
Nearly seven years after flood waters from Hurricane Katrina gushed over New Orleans, $14.5 billion worth of civil works designed to block such surges is now in place — a 133-mile chain of levees, flood walls, gates and pumps too vast to take in at once, except perhaps from space.
The technology inside a power supply consists of a lead-acid battery, some circuitry designed to even out surges and lulls in the power, and a switch that detects a lapse in incoming power and automatically turns to the battery for backup.
