The Raft has also played a role in Marvel’s small-screen projects. In the second season of Jessica Jones, the Raft is a consistent presence and viewed as the worst place for a person to be. If you are eligible for RAFT, you may receive up to $4,000 in benefits in a 12-month period to pay for expenses to avoid homelessness or rapidly exit homelessness. Families who have received funding from the HomeBASE program or are looking to receive HomeBASE funding can access a maximum of $10,000 from the two programs combined.
The RAFT is regularly featured in local, regional and national news outlets. For the most recent updates on RAFT localities and partners making change in their communities, please click the direct links below.
Virginia’s Proactive Plan to Tackle Coastal Resilience
The Environmental and Energy Study Initiative (EESI) reports on Virginia's Coastal Resilience Master Planning Framework. The article highlights The RAFT, as well as team member Elizabeth Andrews' contributions to state resilience efforts.
For state fiscal year 2020, which will run from July 1, 2019 – June 30, 2020, the RAFT program is funded at $21 million, with a requirement from the Legislature that at least $3 million be used to assist elders, unaccompanied youth, people with disabilities, and other households without children under the age of 21.
How The RAFT Contributed to One Community’s Resilience
To hear from past RAFT localities about their experiences with The RAFT process and the advice they have for other communities developing their own Resilience Action Checklists see this video interview and testimonial with Joy Marino of Onancock, Virginia.
American Bar Association's Environment, Energy, and Resources Law: The Year in Review 2019
The Environment, Energy, and Resources Law: The Year in Review 2019, ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources, is a summary of significant legal developments in 2019 in the areas of environmental, energy, and resources law. The RAFT is featured on page X-7 under Section III. Innovative and Collaborative Organizations and Tools to Resolve Environmental Issues.
Tree Planting on Saxis
These images posted by the Virginia Department of Forestry on flickr document a tree planting held in Saxis, Virginia on February 8, 2020 to prevent erosion and manage floodwaters. This event was catalyzed during The RAFT’s work on the Eastern Shore.
Increasing Climate Resiliency: Assessing Community Risk and Readiness
The Fall 2019/Winter 2020 issue of the Virginia Coastal Zone Management Magazine discusses The RAFT process in detail, describes its success supporting pilot localities and working at the regional scale on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, and highlights how communities have been supported to learn more about the Community Rating System under the National Flood Insurance Program. See pages 8-11 for more details.
Saxis Looks for Solutions to Rising Seas
Pamela D’Angelo, with Virginia Public Radio, reports on how Saxis, one of The RAFT’s Eastern Shore localities, is learning to live with water while seeking solutions to rising seas. The article discusses how Saxis was able to affect real change in their town with the support of The RAFT team and regional partners they connected residents with.
Climate Adaptation Working Group 2018 Annual Report
The Raft Of Man
The 2018 Annual Report of the Climate Adaptation Working Group highlights The RAFT’s success partnering with the Accomack-Northampton Planning District to serve seven localities on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. See pages 11-12 for more details.
RAFT Partnership Fortifies Town Against Storm Hazards by Turning Ideas into Action
Madeleine Jepsen, Science Writing Intern with Virginia Sea Grant, discusses The RAFT process in Cape Charles and how lessons learned here will inform The RAFT’s regional work on the Eastern Shore.
Is Accomack Ready for Coastal Flooding? Study Shows Gaps
This article in Delmarva Now describes The RAFT’s assessment of localities’ vulnerability to coastal flooding and how seven localities will receive one-year of facilitated resilience planning and implementation support.
RAFT Wachapreague
Film minion 2 sub indo. Dp gympac 2500 dl manuals. These images posted on Virginia Sea Grant’s flickr account highlight former RAFT team members, Angela King and Michelle Covi, presenting on The RAFT to Wachapreague’s Town Council.
The Rafters
Cape Charles update on Resilience & Adaptation Feasibility Tool (The RAFT)
The Cape Charles Mirror describes Cape Charles’ participation in The RAFT as one of three pilot communities.
Group Gives Accomack Supervisors Tips on Flooding Resilience
A presentation to Accomack County’s Board of Supervisors on The RAFT is described as well as plans to support the Eastern Shore region in developing greater resilience to coastal hazards.
Workshop Helps Cape Charles Prepare for Flooding
The Eastern Shore Post reports on a Resilience Action Workshop conducted by the RAFT core team for Cape Charles.
Remember those famous explorers your read about in the books? Inspired travelers mapping the earth? Proud pirates fearing nothing but lack of rome? You have a chance to join their ranks! Of course, you’ll start out small and humble. You won’t have a fully equipped ship with a team to withstand the fiercest of storms. But instead you can take a couple of friends with you! Discover the upbeats and downsides of surviving on a decrepit raft in the unknown spot of the ocean playing Raft online!
Your voyage is about to begin!
The game is a mix of genres and that what makes it’s so unique and exciting. There is an element of survival: your life is always at risk, your only hope and support in this huge dangerous water world is a slippery wooden board. You have to eat and drink, and fresh water only. You need to get a good night’s sleep and hide away from bad weather. Otherwise your days as a sea wolf are counted. Another genre is sandbox. You don’t only have to survive on your raft, you actually have an opportunity to improve it. The ocean is full of various materials that can be used to patch up holes, increase your living space and equip yourself with necessary stuff to lead a safe and more or less comfortable existence. Finally, there is a pinch of adventure – the sea is roamed by other players as well, some of them will turn out to be friendly and ready for a mutually beneficial exchange of supplies. But some will try to attack you, destroy your raft and collect what’s left of it. So what you also need to think about is your protection. Let’s now look at each aspect in detail.
The Raft Book
Survive, craft, explore!
The Rafting Company
Your journey starts when you come to your senses on that very raft, vaguely remembering that your ship crashed and realizing the only person you can now count on is yourself. Considering your options, you notice a hook in your hand. It has a rope attached to it. This naive device will allow you to catch your very first batch of materials to make your raft a little better. Just take a look: wood, barrels, boards, plenty of other objects are just floating pass you begging to turn into improvements for your new house on the waves. You can use drafts or experiment on your own. All resources are combinable, but the result of that combination is unpredictable. Maybe you’ll be lucky to mix gunpowder, who knows…
The Raft Of The Medusa
Crafting will also help you with satisfying your vital needs. You can make a container that will fill will nice, fresh, tasty water during the rain. And it will be raining a lot! You need a roof or at least a tent to hide under it when the weather freaks out. It’s a nice thing storms bring up swarms of fish – you can catch them using improvised spears, self-made nets and traps. There can never be too much food, so even if there is an overflow of it today, better store it in case tomorrow turns out much worse in terms of fishing. You’ll be surprised, but you can even set up a garden! It’s enough to look out for seeds and nuts the waves occasionally carry past you. With time, you’ll fill your raft with all sorts of upgrades, you’ll have furniture and all possible accommodations, maybe even a second floor!
But you know what, you’ll sooner or later get lonely. So why don’t you invite your friends to join the game? Each of them will have a raft of their own, you’ll be able to track each other, arrange marine meetings and of course help each other in a difficult minute. What else are friends for, right? Octoplus 2.5.2 crack. And at the end of your voyage, there is a beautiful tropical island ready to open its sandy and palmy embrace for you… There you can refill your supplies, restore strength and set out for new adventures! Your raft is already afloat, hurry up!