Articles Tagged with ''storm surge''

New York City has broken ground on another initiative meant to protect a neighborhood from storm surges. 

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plan calls for a 12-ft elevation storm surge wall to ring the Charleston Peninsula.

Plans for a multiple lines of defense strategy to protect the Texas Gulf Coast from hurricanes and storm surge moves to Congress for approval with the release of a final feasibility report and final environmental impact statement from the Corps of Engineers and Texas General Land Office that proposes $28.87 billion in coastal protection projects.

After fast growth from Category 2 to Category 4 in two days, storm made landfall near Cameron, La., early on Aug. 27, but earlier predicted "unsurvivable" storm surge was less than anticipated.

In a few weeks, workers will begin to dismantle the temporary pumps and floodgates that have been in place along the New Orleans lakefront since the year after Hurricane Katrina.

Now a tropical depression with heavy rainfall, storm slows to a crawl and builds significant flood risk across Carolinas and SW Virginia; power still out for 450,000 Duke Energy customers.

South Carolina safety experts fan out to assess dams whose failure would pose the most risk to population and evacuation routes