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What does that mean for potential damage? Is there some kind of measure of how far inland water can travel?
by blackeyeblitzar 2y ago
What does that mean for potential damage? Is there some kind of measure of how far inland water can travel?
- Vecr 2y ago"Almost unthinkable" according to the Project Phoenix report.
- foxyv 2y agoMost of Tampa Bay is less than 50 feet above sea level. It's not quite as bad as New Orleans, but it's not good. A comparable storm would be the 1921 Tampa Bay hurricane that made landfall in a very similar way when Tampa was not nearly as populated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1921_Tampa_Bay_hurricane https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1921_Tampa_Bay_hurricane
- mjrpes 2y agoZoom in on Tampa on this Category 4 flood map and see the utter devastation that this amount of flooding will cause: https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/203f772571cb48b1b8b50fdcc3272e2c/page/Category-4/ https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/203f772571cb48b1b8b...
- perihelions 2y agoThere's a specific storm surge forecast map for this storm, https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at4+shtml/092140.shtml?inundation https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at4+shtml/092140.s... https://slosh.nws.noaa.gov/psurge2.0/ https://slosh.nws.noaa.gov/psurge2.0/