Tampa General Hospital Senior Vice President of Facilities and Construction Dustin Pasteur explains how they used an ...

Before the storm ... high and close to the wall as possible but within reach to avoid injury. Even just a splash of surge sludge can contaminate anything porous or previously unsealed.

After Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built a $15 billion levee and surge protection system ...

WASHINGTON D.C., DC — We all experience strong winds and heavy rain but if you always lived inland you may never have experienced storm surge. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

As we brace for hurricane season, words like "hurricane-force winds" and "storm surge" are coming up in casual ... structure and even an exterior wall. Fallen trees and other debris can block ...

How far inland can Hurricane Milton’s storm surge go? Category 5 Milton formed in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday and is expected to make landfall today in west-central Florida. According to the ...

It's the water. Storm surge, the massive wall of relentless water that pushes ashore during a hurricane and up into rivers and bays, often causes the most damage and the most deaths. The battering ...

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Hurricane Helene broke records for storm ... surge that compounded the already elevated sea level. The storm itself added another four feet of water, Weisberg said, sending waves “over the sea ...