The storm surge is something else. I went through Betsy in 1965 while at
Keesler AFB for training. We were about 75 miles from the eye and we had 95
gusting to 105 mph winds. At least that is what we were told. You can not
tell there is a gust of an extra 10 mph when the wind is blowing 95 for a
4-5 hour stretch. We had about a 6-9'' surge in the back bay of Biloxi.
There was a 5' wide coil of tules (cat tails) circling the bay. We were
cleaning up housing by hand, but they said stay away from the tules. Loaded
with water moccasins. Being from the San Francisco area, and used to big
waves in the Pacific, and then go to the gulf that was normally flat calm,
and see the huge breakers coming ashore as well as huge tide swing, was an
eye opener. That was a Cat 3 storm and I saw in NO iself 12" I-beam girders
from bill boards twisted like corkscrews and then bend 90 degrees. Now
change the power 10-20 times.

"Starbucks" wrote in message
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JohnH,

The storm surge from Hurricane Katrina is estimated at 27 ft. 3 times the
storm surge that caused the flooding in the Netherlands.

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansas...n/12580121.htm



"PocoLoco" wrote in message
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On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 17:25:03 -0400, thunder
wrote:

On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 12:20:36 -0400, PocoLoco wrote:


Call the Dutch. They know how to build dikes that work.

Not always.

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclop...-Flood-of-1953

My friends tell me they've gotten more proficient in the last 50 years!
Who said
they didn't have high tidal surges?

I think the new guy in charge is named Hans Brinker, but I'm not sure.
--
John H

"All decisions are the result of binary thinking."