Storm surges come miles inland. It’s not just people on the beach. Most of the gulf coast is fairly flat and filled with other waterways. What you’re looking a

Storm surges come miles inland. It’s not just people on the beach. Most of the gulf coast is fairly flat and filled with other waterways. What you’re looking at is anybody potentially within 30ft of sea level where any contiguous <30ft elevation is connected to water. I’ve known people 20 miles inland to be flooded by storm surges because they lived near a river, and the hurricane pushed all the water up the river. The wind is not as big a concern, but also still does a lot of damage. During one major hurricane I evacuated 150 miles inland and still didn’t have power for a week. One person in the town I evacuated to was killed by a falling tree.