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🌪️ Storm and Flood Preparedness for Apiaries

An interactive 3D apiary yard where you dial up wind speed and floodwater level to see whether strapped-down, elevated hives with a windbreak survive a storm.

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A 3D apiary yard where rising floodwater and gusting wind test a row of hives — watch how tie-down straps, a raised stand and a windbreak barrier decide whether the colonies stay put or go over.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Hive lean scales with effective wind force after any windbreak shielding, straps cut that force dramatically, and flood clearance is simply stand height minus water level — the same maths a beekeeper uses when siting an apiary.

🎮 How to Use

Push wind speed and floodwater level up to stress-test the yard, then toggle straps and the windbreak, and raise the stand height, to bring the risk badge back to Safe.

💡 Did You Know?

Many UK beekeeping guides recommend strapping hives before any forecast gust above roughly 25 mph and siting apiaries at least 300mm above the highest recorded local flood level.

⚙ Under the hood

An interactive 3D apiary yard where you dial up wind speed and floodwater level to see whether strapped-down, elevated hives with a windbreak survive a storm.

stormfloodapiaryhiveswindwater levelsimulationThree.js

3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install