Obviously with Hurricane Ida coming it’s all over the news. They’re saying storm surges could be several feet. I understand if it breaks a dam or a levy how the water can get that high. But how can a Hurricane bring so much water inland?
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1) Winds are literally pushing the ocean onto the land. This is the storm surge and what causes a lot of the initial damages.
2) There is a massive amount of rain in the storm. This leads to flooding further inland as more rain falls than the existing drainage system can handle, as well as makes flooding down stream worse as they are already flooded from the storm surge.
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