Sentences with phrase «hurricane storm surge»

The court also upheld State Farm's flood exclusion as applying to hurricane storm surge, and said that the anti-concurrent cause language in State Farm policies overturns a common law doctrine of property loss causation called «efficient proximate cause.»

A study by CoreLogic estimates more than $ 103 billion worth of property is at risk from hurricane storm surge — only New York City has more exposed property.

For example, restricting development of land in flood plains and in coastal locations affected by hurricane storm surge is an effective adaptation strategy regardless of how climate changes.

Or the Turkey Point nuclear expansion, in which Florida Power & Light toys with the idea of adding two new reactors to their coal / gas / nuclear plant 25 miles outside Miami — even though it is extremely exposed to sea level rise (and potentially hurricane storm surge.)

If an operator proposes a site that is too close to an earthquake fault, or too close to oceanfront that is vulnerable to a tsunami or hurricane storm surge, or downriver from a huge dam that could burst, then the NRC should reject the bid.

It is possible to estimate, for example, excess deaths due to increased hurricane storm surges in places like Myanmar or Bangladesh due to the higher sea level on which the hurricanes «(typhoons» in oceans in those regions) have started.

Not exact matches

The storm surge — the quick rise in water caused by a hurricane's strong winds — crested several feet at the height of the storm on the Texas coast.

Harvey's devastating hurricane - force winds, storm surge on the Gulf Coast, and landmark flooding inland combined to make it a catastrophic event for Texas.

He estimated that insured losses for the global industry would total between $ 20 billion and $ 30 billion, which would put the storm on a similar scale to Hurricane Sandy, whose storm surge caused flooding in New York in 2012.

Irma is not expected to linger over the U.S. mainland as long as Hurricane Harvey, a phenomenon that led to record rainfall and storm surge in areas of Texas and Louisiana.

Parts of South Florida are under hurricane and storm - surge warnings as of Friday morning, with surges of 5 to 10 feet expected.

Some areas in Puerto Rico are expected to see 20 inches of rain and 6 to 9 feet of dangerous storm surge (often the most deadly component of a hurricane).

Some areas of Puerto Rico saw around 9 feet of storm surge, the coastal flooding that is often the most deadly component of a hurricane.

«Maria's core is moving over Puerto Rico, with life - threatening wind, storm surge, and rainfall impacts continuing over the island,» the National Hurricane Center stated Wednesday.

For example, the largest storm surge recorded before Katrina was about 22 feet, during Hurricane Camille in 1969.

With the flooding from the hurricanes and storm surges, people have been coming into contact with coastal water, and potentially with Vibrio.

When Hurricane Irma was advancing toward Florida in early September, weather officials were looking at a very scary scenario: an extremely powerful Category 4 or 5 storm hitting with 150 mph winds, flooding rains, and up to 15 feet of storm surge for coastal cities like Miami and Tampa.

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For instance, in 2008, hurricane Ike caused a big storm surge around Galveston, TX, a day before it made landfall.

Along the East Coast, hurricane Sandy produced a massive storm surge in 2012.

Immediately after Hurricane Irma's eye passed over the Florida Keys, massive damage to the Lower and Middle Keys was apparent where hundreds of homes and businesses were destroyed by high winds and a huge storm surge.

Hurricane Harvey became the nation's first Category 4 landfall in almost 12 years, hammering the Texas Gulf Coast with an extremely dangerous combination of torrential rainfall, storm - surge flooding and destructive winds.

The fiercest hurricane to hit the U.S. in more than a decade spun across hundreds of miles of coastline where communities had prepared for life - threatening storm surges — walls of water rushing inland.

Diesel demand surged after Hurricane Harvey knocked offline more than 20 percent of U.S. refinery capacity at the peak of shutdowns, but demand was strong even before the storm, according to executives and analysts.

Storm surge — the mass of water hurricanes push onshore from the ocean — will have a higher bed of water that will rush farther inland and destroy more property.

According to storm surge expert Dr. Hal Needham, Hurricane Donna also brought a storm tide of 4 - 8 feet in Biscayne Bay, just south of Miami, and we can expect that Irma might bring similar water levels.

NHC had not yet issued a storm surge watch for the coasts of northern Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina as of 5 pm EDT Friday, but I expect the surge will be at least 3 - 5 feet in much of this region, which is lower than the 4 - 8 foot levels observed last October during Hurricane Matthew.

Southwest Florida has seen a number of large storm surges from hurricanes that rival the predicted 8 — 12» storm surge from Hurricane Irma.

Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey was making the rounds in Brevard County around noon Sunday as Brevard waits for the arrival of heaving winds and storm surge from Hurricane Irma.

«We're still under hurricane watch and it looks likely we'll have substantial rain, storm surges and wind speeds that could be pretty severe».

Besides being a backwater town, Galveston was vulnerable to the overwater to the storm surges of category 3, 4 and 5 hurricanes.

The Great Colonial Hurricane of 1635 arrived as a surprise and took many lives with it, including, according to the report of the Massachusetts governor John Winthrop, those of eight Native Americans taken by the storm surge while «flying from their wigwams.»

Homeowners affected by Hurricane Katrina were contesting the language of their insurance policies in regards to storm surge or ground flooding.

I think the best piece of advice I can offer for traveling with small children is to have very low expectations of what you'll do while on your trip and be very flexible to go with the flow, even is that flow is the storm surge of a hurricane 5 tantrum.

The eye of Hurricane Maria is located over eastern Puerto Rico on Wednesday morning, bringing sustained winds of 150 mph and a possible storm surge of 6 - 9 feet.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - As plans progress for a buried seawall to protect the East Shore from storm surges, $ 2 million in federal funds for Hurricane Sandy relief will kickstart the design phase of the project.

BY MICHAEL CAHILL PHOTOS BY TOM MCGUIRE AND DYLAN SKRILOFF Hurricane Sandy blew through Rockland County on this week, with high winds and a record storm surge.

Many of the 23 people killed on Staten Island during Hurricane Sandy in 2012 died in low - lying neighborhoods behind the boardwalk that were swamped by the ferocious storm surge.

The storm surge and waves from Katrina also obliterated the Chandeleur Islands, which had been affected by Hurricane Ivan the previous year.

THE speed at which a hurricane progresses across the ocean may help forecasters predict which areas are at risk from flooding by storm surges.

Causing an estimated $ 108 billion in property damage, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans on Aug. 29, 2005 and flooded 85 percent of the city after its levees were breached by a surge of storm and coastal waters.

An 1821 hurricane scored a direct hit on the city, producing an estimated 10 - to 11 - foot storm surge.

Hurricane Sandy barreled into the U.S. East Coast on October 29, bringing heavy rains, high winds and severe storm surges from the Carolinas to New England.

It would then take only one big storm surge to breach the seawall, just as hurricane Katrina sent floodwaters racing past New Orleans's levees.

More worrisome still was a subsequent study examining the physics of hurricanes and storm surge.

«When people look at the impact of hurricanes on coral reefs, they often look at physical damage or breakage of reef frameworks by waves and storm surge,» Correa said.

If engineers were to spray about 10 million metric tons of sulfur dioxide droplets into the stratosphere each year between 2020 and 2070, the number of storm surge inundations produced by large hurricanes each year after 2070 drops by about half, the researchers report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The National Hurricane Center's new maps, released as the storm approached the U.S., predicted the location and severity of the surge

And last fall's Hurricane Sandy along the U.S. East Coast has kept USGS scientists hopping, assessing storm surges, the effects of erosion, and the pulses of sediment and pollutants thrust into waterways by the storm.

This data will help determine damage from the surge and improve models of flooding in the future, which could help provide a better picture of where future storm waters will go and who needs to be evacuated ahead of hurricanes.