Sentences with phrase «than a storm surge»

If the marine organisms had been scooped up from below sea level and dumped on the elevated promontory, something much bigger than a storm surge must have pounded the coast of ancient Crete.

Not exact matches

In the meantime, the company has had to spend more than $ 60,000 raising and rebuilding the bulkheads, installing reinforced pilings that can withstand big storm surges, raising electrical sockets up to waist level, and rebuilding its repairs warehouse with waterproof materials, like impermeable sheetrock and rigid foam insulation.

Maria, however, blew out windows at some hospitals and police stations, turned some streets into roaring rivers and destroyed hundreds of homes across Puerto Rico, including 80 percent of houses in a small fishing community near the San Juan Bay, which unleashed a storm surge of more than 4 feet.

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.

It was Category 5 with 185 mph winds and storm surges bringing waves 20 feet higher than normal tides.

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.

Dangerous storm surge — possibly higher than the surge during Matthew — can be expected from northern Florida to southern South Carolina, especially along the Georgia coast (see Figure 5).

The Smilow, which opened in 2006, can withstand a storm surge of about 3.7 meters — 20 % higher than that expected from a once - per - century flood, according to the NYU.

«We conclude that coastal communities are facing a looming crisis due to climate change related sea - level rise, one that will manifest itself as increased frequency of Sandy - like inundation disasters in the coming decades along the mid-Atlantic and elsewhere, from storms with less intensity and lower storm surge than Sandy,» Sweet said.

With high winds and record - breaking storm surges in some areas, Sandy has claimed more than 100 U.S. lives, caused billions of dollars in damages and stranded travelers across the country

«Approximately 90 percent of outaged customers would have power restored in less than 26 days and 80 percent in less than 22 days, depending substantially on storm surge effects.»

«The influence of rising oceans is even greater than the overall amount of sea level rise because of storm surge, erosion and inundation,» said Carlson, who studies the interaction of ice sheets, oceans and the climate system on centennial time scales.

Official figures show that in 2013 alone, storm surges caused direct economic losses of more than 2.8 billion yuan ($ 452 million) and forced hundreds of thousands of people to leave their homes behind.

Compounding the threat of the storm surge are higher tides than normal because of today's full moon.

This means that, relative to whatever the local sea level is in the future, the risk of huge storm surges could be lower than it is today.

The Dubai case was particularly astounding to the researchers given that the models suggested even a moderate - intensity storm could generate an extremely high surge, and that under the right circumstances, a strong storm could reach intensities far greater than even the most intense storm on record with a surge up to 23 feet (though these would be 3 to 20 times rarer than a 10,000 - year storm).

Even if hurricanes change very little over the coming century, sea level rise means that storm surge events will be worse than they are today.

Because of sea level rise, the storm surge was more intense than it would have been in a non-climate changed world, NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco says.

The storm caused dangerous flooding and storm surges and left more than 6 million people without power.

Intervals between hurricanes (winds greater than 65 knots, high tides, storm surges and heavy rain) vary from between 3 to 6 years.

Storm surge is more a function of the surrounding landforms than the cyclone itself.

If the 1821 Hurricane were to happen today, it would cause 50 % more damage than Sandy and potentially cause more than $ 100 billion in property losses stemming from storm surge and wind damage.

Burma's minister for relief and resettlement, Maung Maung Swe, said more deaths were caused by the cyclone's storm surge rather than the winds which reached 190km / h (120mph).

However, it's not just the absolute rise in sea level but the accompanying storm surges that would occur with any rise and the resultant flooding of all unprotected low lying lands, which are at higher elevations than the absolute rise.

The opinion piece asserted, «Harvey was almost certainly more intense than it would have been in the absence of human - caused warming, which means stronger winds, more wind damage and a larger storm surge.»

Along the East Coast, El Niño - related atmospheric «teleconnections» help establish a more zonal (west - to - east) jet stream and storm track, which results in higher - than - normal storm surge frequencies along much of the Mid-Atlantic Coast (see related research by Sweet and Zervas, 2011).

The deposits revealed that these early storms were more frequent, and in some cases were likely more intense, than the most severe hurricanes Cape Cod has seen in historical times, including Hurricane Bob in 1991 and a 1635 hurricane that generated a 20 - foot storm surge, according to Donnelly.

It also shows that although floods and storm surges pose major threats, droughts are «misery in slow motion,» with costlier impacts that run deeper and longer than previously believed.

Since the cost of storm surge for Katrina alone was over $ 80 billion, such a system would have paid for itself more than 10 times over, simply from that one hurricane.

According to our analysis of southeastern Florida, 37 of 222 major substations and two small power plants in the mapped region could be exposed to flooding from a major storm today; the number of exposed substations more than doubles by 2050 and more than triples by 2070 as sea level rise drives storm surge higher and farther inland.

To estimate the trend in landfalling storm counts, we count the number of large surge events greater than 10 units in 1 y, which is roughly equivalent to hurricane categories 0 — 5.

Two recent events contrast existing vulnerability to extreme events: Hurricane Irene, which produced a broad swath of very heavy rain (greater than five inches in total and sometimes two to three inches per hour in some locations) from southern Maryland to northern Vermont from August 27 to 29, 2011; and Hurricane Sandy, which caused massive coastal damage from storm surge and flooding along the Northeast coast from October 28 to 30, 2012.

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.

In the Northeast United States, sea levels are rising up to four times faster than the global average, making this area more vulnerable to storm surge and flooding.

From 1635 through 1954, New England was hit by at least five hurricanes producing greater than 3 m storm surges in New England.

The rare monster tropical cyclones (the term for hurricanes, typhoons and other tropical storms) could inundate coastal areas with storm surges greater than 15 feet (4.6 meters), and could even surpass 30 feet (9 m) in some regions of the world.

Rather than focusing on big - ticket solutions such as storm - surge barriers, Rosenzweig calls for a range of initiatives, from increasing redundancy in the electric grid to sealing off tunnels and making coastal areas more resilient to flooding.

Strong storm surge almost always reduces buildings to piles of rubble, and usually kills more people than wind in a hurricane.

Keep in mind that the majority of the destruction caused by hurricanes is due to flooding, even more so than the initial storm surge.

A report earlier this year by CoreLogic, a financial analysis and advisory company, identified more than 6.5 million homes in the US at risk of storm surge damage, with a total reconstruction value amounting to $ 1.5 trillion.

The I'm - not - calling - it - a-friggin-Frankenstorm (aka Hurricane Sandy) is by all accounts, from the near hysteric mainstream media to the more sober yet appropriately serious, concerned (and usually more accurate than everyone else) folks at Weather Underground, a big deal, with potential devastating rain, wind, and high storm surges made worse by the coincidence with the full moon.

But even if such promises are fulfilled, European cities could face sea level rises of more than 50 cm by 2100, enough to put properties and lives at risk in cases of extreme storms and tidal surges.

With rising sea levels due to manmade climate change, storm surges from tropical storms and hurricanes are already capable of doing more damage than they used to.

For example, when Hurricane Sandy pushed a record - high storm surge into New York Harbor, the surge rode on top of seas that were already about a foot higher at that location than they were in 1900, due to both climate change - related sea level rise and land subsidence.

This hurricane brought a storm surge greater than 10 feet to the city, which caused extensive damage.

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Islamorada's iconic Cheeca Lodge Resort & Spa resumed operations Friday, more than six months after Irma's storm surge devastated the resort's lobby and landscaping and destroyed a 525 - foot - long...