Q & A with NHC - Rick Knabb, Ph.D.
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cypresstx on 7/1/2012, 7:09 pm
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/qa/201207_rick_knabb.php
What is the one thing you would like to do here?
I would like to be able to look back ten years from now at 2012 and say "Wow, look how far we've come and how much people understand all of the hazards that a hurricane poses". Not just the wind, but the water-related hazards -- the inland flooding from the heavy rains, and especially the storm surge hazard. Storm surge is the main reason people are ordered to evacuate from the coastal areas. It's the one weather-related hazard that can kill the most people, and we don't even have a specific warning for it -- a specific storm surge warning. We have a hurricane warning, but the hurricane-force-winds often do not occur at the same places or same times as the storm surge. Hopefully, we can work toward a new warning in the not-so-distant future that will better help get the message out about storm surge. |
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