Hurricane Center has on-line tool to show storm surge

Are you curious as to how vulnerable your home or property is to storm surge?

The National Hurricane Center has recently created a new education and awareness tool where anyone living in hurricane-prone coastal areas along the U.S. East and Gulf Coasts can evaluate their own unique risk to storm surge.

Approximately 22 million people in the U.S. are vulnerable to storm surge.

It’s responsible for about half the deaths in the United States due to tropical cyclones, and many evacuation routes become inundated in a variety of scenarios.

The on-line map makes it clear that storm surge is not just a beachfront problem, with the risk of storm surge extending several miles from the immediate coastline in some areas.

Florida has a particularly large vulnerable population, with about 40 percent of its residents at risk to storm surge flooding.

The on-line tool should help you decide when you need o evacuate from a major storm and help you choose the best route to evacuate that will be least impacted by flood waters.

To check out the map for yourself, follow the link we’ve posted at oysterradio.om and on the oyster radio facebook page.

http://noaa.maps.arcgis.com/apps/StorytellingTextLegend/index.html?appid=b1a20ab5eec149058bafc059635a82ee

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