The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Nanoputian8128 on 2025-02-17 01:09:32.
Firstly, apologies if this type of question is not allowed on this sub.
I am currently doing a PhD, my research being using machine learning for hurricane risk modelling in the US. In the past I have relied on many (very excellent) datasets from FEMA for building ML models for my research.
Unfortunately, I have not been aware about this federal data purge (I am not from the US). I only realised a few days ago when I tried to download some datasets from FEMA and I got a message saying I am not able to connect. These datasets are essential for the current research paper I am working on. The one dataset that I especially need is below (there are many others that would be good to have, but this is the one I really need).
https://tools.hazards.fema.gov/hazus/maps/data/NationalDB/HazusInventoryNationalData.zip
This is what I have tried so far to download this data:
- Copy link in my browser (Chrome) - says I cannot connect.
- Based on a post from this sub, I tried downloading from this link using the Internet Download Manager (IDM) - says the IDM does not have permission to access.
- Used the Internet Archive to find an archived version of the webpage and tried to download from there - below is the link from the Internet Archive, it begins to download, but after ~30 mins the download fails (don't know why). https://web.archive.org/web/20241230204840/https://tools.hazards.fema.gov/hazus/maps/data/NationalDB/HazusInventoryNationalData.zip
- Tried to download the above link using IDM - after initially downloading quickly, it has become stuck on 73% status for several hours now. I assume it has failed. Again, not sure why.
Would anyone know how I can download this dataset? Even an older version of this dataset would be okay, better than nothing. Any help would be much appreciated!
Edit:
I forgot to mention, another post in the sub mentioned the below tracker of federal data that has already been saved. I had a look, however the dataset I need is not there unfortunately.