I never seen such a storm surge in my life!
At many places there was talk of a high storm surge.
The storm surge on areas of the Texas coast was small.
Almost everything else was swept away in the storm surge.
The island was literally cut in two by the storm surge.
"A lot of the damage would be caused by the storm surge."
The majority of the damage was caused by storm surge.
Had they been in their homes when the storm surge came, few of them would have survived.
They are open and allow free passage but close when the land is under threat of a storm surge.
These gates can be shut when a storm surge is expected.
It is regularly washed over by large storm waves, particularly in winter.
Despair washed over him, colder and deeper than any storm wave.
You read what Robinson said about not being able to distinguish breakers from storm waves.
However, the drift line is likely to move inland under assault by storm waves.
But as discussed earlier, storm waves act more to remove sediment offshore than along it.
The marina is completely protected from storm waves and the sea.
Sometimes, though, storm waves send sand far offshore, into deep water where wave action cannot reach it.
The storm wave sweeps inland, taking with it 20,000 ships and thousands of people.
At the Battery, the water was about six and a half feet above mean sea level, the backwash of the storm wave.
The storm waves pass over the structure, a concrete wall with a curved top facing the beach.