{"id":1818804,"date":"2023-09-27T14:19:53","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T18:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1818804"},"modified":"2023-09-27T14:19:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T18:19:53","slug":"the-cbc-on-inaccessible-flood-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/09\/the-cbc-on-inaccessible-flood-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"The CBC on Inaccessible Flood Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Better flood maps could save lives. Why are they so hard to find?\" width=\"760\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2Nciej4VX7M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>As the <abbr title=\"Canadian Broadcasting Corportation\">CBC<\/abbr>&rsquo;s evening news program <em>The National<\/em> reports, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2Nciej4VX7M\">flood maps can be incredibly hard to find<\/a>, with even municipal maps requiring an <abbr title=\"non-disclosure agreement\">NDA<\/abbr> to view in some cases. Now this story focuses on Halifax, Nova Scotia in the wake of flash flooding this summer; the situation elsewhere in Canada may be quite different (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cehq.gouv.qc.ca\/zones-inond\/rapports-carto.htm\">Quebec&rsquo;s flood maps<\/a>, for example, are available online, though only in French).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the CBC&rsquo;s evening news program The National reports, flood maps can be incredibly hard to find, with even municipal maps requiring an NDA to view in some cases. Now this story focuses on Halifax,&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/09\/the-cbc-on-inaccessible-flood-maps\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[131,878,74,889,523],"class_list":["post-1818804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-weather-and-climate","tag-canada","tag-flood-maps","tag-flooding","tag-halifax","tag-nova-scotia","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1787367,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/05\/quebec-flood-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1818804,"position":0},"title":"Quebec Flood Maps","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"21 May 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"In my neck of the woods we've been dealing with some pretty severe spring flooding. And as is often the case, existing flood maps are not up to handling the new normal imposed by climate change. Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac, a community near Montreal, was hit hard by flooding this spring, but only\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Weather and Climate&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Weather and Climate","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/weather-and-climate\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1787554,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/08\/quebecs-updated-flood-maps-prove-controversial\/","url_meta":{"origin":1818804,"position":1},"title":"Quebec&#8217;s Updated Flood Maps Prove Controversial","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"1 August 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"In the wake of serious and devastating spring flooding in 2017 and 2019, the Quebec government issued proposed flood zone maps that marked areas where rebuilding and new construction would be put on hold. There was immediate pushback: as CBC News reported last month, the maps included substantial areas of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Weather and Climate&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Weather and Climate","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/weather-and-climate\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/flood-maps-fort-coulonge-1024x576.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/flood-maps-fort-coulonge-1024x576.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/flood-maps-fort-coulonge-1024x576.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/flood-maps-fort-coulonge-1024x576.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1845072,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/10\/why-fema-flood-maps-are-contentious\/","url_meta":{"origin":1818804,"position":2},"title":"Why FEMA Flood Maps Are Contentious","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"19 October 2025","format":"link","excerpt":"Two recent articles on the contentiousness that breaks out at the local level when FEMA updates its flood maps. Jordan Wolman\u2019s piece in the Commonwealth Beacon focuses on the disconnect between FEMA\u2019s maps and actual flooding risk in Massachusetts (as has been noted before, FEMA flood maps are based on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Weather and Climate&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Weather and Climate","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/weather-and-climate\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5588,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2013\/06\/alberta-flood-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1818804,"position":3},"title":"Alberta Flood Maps","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"21 June 2013","format":"link","excerpt":"This is a list of maps related to the flooding in southern Alberta (Calgary, Canmore, Bragg Creek, High River, Okotoks, etc.). This list will be added to as needed. Feel free to contribute additional links in the comments. Evacuation zone maps from the City of Calgary, in PDF format. For\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Disasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Disasters","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/disasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6254,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/12\/mapping-the-halifax-explosion\/","url_meta":{"origin":1818804,"position":4},"title":"Mapping the Halifax Explosion","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"6 December 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"Today marks the 100th anniversary of the Halifax Explosion, which took place when a French cargo ship laden with explosives collided with another ship in Halifax Harbour. The resulting blast killed around 2,000 people and devastated the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia; it was the largest artificial explosion of the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Disasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Disasters","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/disasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/cbc-halifax-explosion-1024x569.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/cbc-halifax-explosion-1024x569.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/cbc-halifax-explosion-1024x569.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/cbc-halifax-explosion-1024x569.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4692,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/08\/fema-flood-maps-dont-account-for-future-sea-level-rise\/","url_meta":{"origin":1818804,"position":5},"title":"FEMA Flood Maps Don&#8217;t Account for Future Sea Level Rise","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"28 August 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"NPR last month, reporting on a problem with FEMA's flood insurance maps: they're not keeping up with reality. \"FEMA's insurance maps are based on past patterns of flooding. Future sea level rise\u2014which is expected to create new, bigger flood zones\u2014is not factored in.\u00a0So some communities are doing the mapping themselves.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Weather and Climate&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Weather and Climate","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/weather-and-climate\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1818804"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1818806,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818804\/revisions\/1818806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1818804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1818804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1818804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}