About in hurricanes. people look at the wind, the wind is dramatic, you can get a hurricane that can do damage, but a storm surges where they are saying if you are in a directly hit area could be not survivable in this case. a storm like nothing they have seen since the 1800s, with blocked roams, home destructions, massive power outages. so, how to storm surges work? think about that big swirling storm we talk about all the time. every place that it is contacting the water, it is pushing water in front of it. so, if you are out in deep water, out here it pushes the water in epic circular motion. well, so what? because it s deep enough and just keeps growing down into the water, it does not matter. but when it gets into a more shallow area it runs out of space, and the water that is being pushed on the parts going towards gland could go down anymore, and it starts going and word. and the result is, then you have this surge of water that starts pushing and. the longer and shallower the r