According to the U.S. National Hurricane Center, surges are often the greatest threat to life and property from a hurricane.
The Army Corps of Engineers' plan to reduce Jersey Shore bayfront flooding no longer includes flood walls and storm surge ...
Katrina makes landfall in Louisiana at 6:10 a.m., but the flooding of residential areas ... which make up the easternmost length of the ring of hurricane-protection levees surrounding St. Bernard ...
WHAT IS A STORM SURGE? As a hurricane approaches a coast, the churning winds force ocean water up onto land. Atmospheric ...
The Minor family, pictured in 2005, prevailed in a Hurricane Katrina lawsuit filed against ... ruling established that insurers must prove flooding caused the damage or pay the claim, but that ...
2005—the eve of Hurricane Katrina. From his cell, Schwarz watched the jail flood. As the flooding worsened, deputies left, trapping him for four days without food, electricity, or ventilation in ...
The flood waters washed the body to Unicoi ... Helene was the deadliest hurricane to hit the U.S. mainland since Katrina in 2005.