Predicting Where Water Will Go In A Hurricane

Originally Published: April 2, 2014 -- 4:00pm, Inside Science News ServiceBy: Joel N. Shurkin, ISNS Contributor(ISNS) -- In most hurricanes the greatest damage is done not by the wind but from the storm surge, the mountain of water pushed by raging winds from the ocean to deluge the land.There is always a level of unpredictability when dealing with Mother Nature, but knowing where the water would go when a storm is bearing down on the coast would be useful, particularly in densely populated coas...