People are ordered to flee Florida as Hurricane Milton approaches - or see their homes swallowed by the devastating storm surge. Evacuation orders are in place for more than a million people as the state prepares for what could be the worst storm to hit the state 'for over a century'.
When Hurricane Milton reaches Florida's Gulf Coast, the immense and powerful storm could generate life-threatening storm surge of up to 15 feet in a region that's particularly flood-prone, our colleagues at NBC write.'The Florida west coast is very sensitive to storm surge. It doesn't take much to push water over land that would be dry,' said Cody Fritz, the Storm Surge Unit team lead at the National Hurricane Center. 'It's extremely vulnerable.
While winds are the primary cause of storm surge, it's also affected by a storm's angle of approach, the shape of the ocean floor and the low pressure within a storm, which slightly aids the bulging effect.Because of the way storm surge can quickly inundate coastal locations and penetrate well inland, it's typically one of the deadliest threats from a hurricane.Part of the problem is the region's topography.
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