A powerful storm surge can cause long-term damage by sweeping away roads, eroding beaches and contaminating land with salt water, harming wildlife and agriculture. WHAT WAS THE DEADLIEST STORM ...

A storm surge is water that is pushed onto shore by a hurricane. It is rarely a "wall of water" as often claimed, but rather a rise of water that can be as rapid as several feet in just a few minutes.

The Army Corps of Engineers' plan to reduce bayfront flooding no longer includes flood walls and storm surge barriers, instead focusing on elevating more than 6,000 threatened structures and ...

But what is storm surge? As the pressure inside a hurricane falls, the water levels rise. As a hurricane approaches land, the wind pushes that water onshore — and that is storm surge.

STORM SURGES In contrast, a storm surge happens when strong winds from a storm near directly push seawater onto land. This results in higher, more forceful waves slamming into the coast.

WHAT IS A STORM SURGE? As a hurricane approaches a coast, the churning winds force ocean water up onto land. Atmospheric pressure from the storm also helps squeeze the water ashore. The shallower ...