Plans to build a 12-mile tidal barrier across The Wash has won support from British Gas owner Centrica despite a backlash from green campaigners over the scheme.
Closer to the earth, we get a bigger tidal range. so hire high tides and lower low tides. with the higher high tides, that can set the stage at a hire base level for the storm surge which is simply the hurricane pushing the water from the gulf of mexico in this case up on to land. so if we assume these values assume that storm surge occurs at high tide, so that is why we re expecting 1 0 to 15 feet f the storm surge. and on top of that, the devastating breaking wave action that can be very destructive. michael brennan, keep at it. i know a lot of folks will be relying on the up gates that you provide. thanks for joining us. our cnn team is on the ground up and down florida s gulf coast. we have carlos suarez in tampa and also meteorologist derek van dam is in clearwater keeping an eye on things there.