{"id":80931,"date":"2017-12-14T16:00:14","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T16:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/identify-hurricane-shelters-in-houston\/"},"modified":"2018-03-26T21:15:49","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T21:15:49","slug":"identify-hurricane-shelters-in-houston","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/analytics\/identify-hurricane-shelters-in-houston","title":{"rendered":"Identify Hurricane Shelters in Houston"},"author":6581,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[23341,24371],"tags":[35021,23551,24391],"industry":[],"product":[],"class_list":["post-80931","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analytics","category-public-safety","tag-houston","tag-location-analytics","tag-public-safety"],"acf":{"short_description":"Hurricane Harvey overwhelmed authorities trying to find shelter for the 300,000 victims seeking dry ground during that storm's record rai...","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Harvey.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-91394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Harvey.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Hurricane Harvey\" href=\"https:\/\/weather.com\/storms\/hurricane\/news\/tropical-storm-harvey-forecast-texas-louisiana-arkansas\">Hurricane Harvey<\/a> overwhelmed authorities trying to find shelter for the 300,000 victims seeking dry ground during that storm&#8217;s record rainfall in August and September 2017.<\/p>\n<p>A new <a title=\"Learn ArcGIS\" href=\"http:\/\/learn.arcgis.com\/en\/\">Learn ArcGIS<\/a> lesson, <a title=\"Find Potential Hurricane Shelters\" href=\"http:\/\/learn.arcgis.com\/en\/projects\/find-potential-hurricane-shelters\/\">Find Potential Hurricane Shelters<\/a>, could help authorities avoid the human toll of future storms like Harvey by identifying shelters before hurricanes can make landfall.<\/p>\n<p>In this 40-minute lesson, you&#8217;ll use <a title=\"ArcGIS Business Analyst Web and Mobile App\" href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/software\/businessanalyst\/get-started\/saas\">ArcGIS Business Analyst Web App<\/a> to compare locations of potential shelters in the greater Houston area with <a title=\"FEMA's 100-year-flood-plain \" href=\"https:\/\/msc.fema.gov\/portal\">FEMA&#8217;s 100-year-flood-plain<\/a> map. 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