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AP Explains: How storm surges build up, destroy and kill

WASHINGTON — Behold the awesome power of water. That’s why it’s so scary.” Florence’s storm surge will probably be 7 to 11 feet above ground in parts of North Carolina, according to the National Hurricane Center. Even if a house is elevated 10 feet, with that kind of storm surge, “there’s a good chance there’s going to be water inside of it,” Needham said. “These bays, these rivers and these inlets, there’s so much storm surge the water is being literally forced to flow the opposite direction,” Graham said. I had to be there.” The worst storm surge comes in with a hurricane’s eye, and it arrives “with a lot of debris to batter you, and it’s not particularly survivable,” Masters said.

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