Storm Surge Communications

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USGS has built a pretty sweet map tool with HAZUS integration. Have a look at Scituate, Massachusetts (which is the only coastal one in here so far).

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This from NOAA’s StormSurge and Coastal Inundation website (http://www.stormsurge.noaa.gov/)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXuD75LUVoM

Good to have some background data on what storm surges were like in the past: NOAA has released an Inundation Analysis Tool.
There’s a lot of evidence that the future in coastal areas will look a lot like the past, only with more bad times. That once a century event might be more like once a decade by 2100. And brace for that “once a decade sto…[Read more]

Check out this cool video from Delaware Sea Grant. Good potential outreach product (and fairly easy to replicate in other areas). It’s not just big storm surge that causes trouble, after all. . .