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There are myriad risks associated with a storm surge, or the flooding and tsunami-like conditions caused by low pressure weather systems.
Consider that the deadliest storm surge on record, which happened in 1970 during the Bhola cyclone near the Bay of Bengal, killed roughly 500,000 people, and that the Hurricane Sandy storm surge in 2012 resulted in flooding as high as 14 feet in New York City.
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Elana Ashanti Jefferson
Elana Ashanti Jefferson serves as ALM's PropertyCasualty360 Group Chief Editor. She is a veteran journalist and communications professional. Reach her by sending an e-mail to [email protected].
