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[QUOTE="CONN78SEJ, post: 4043643, member: 10604"]
The surge did, not the winds. Do you know what a hurricane’s surge actually is??? A hurricane storm surge is a bubble of water at sea that moves with the storms forward motion. The top of that bubble sits right underneath the hurricanes eye. The bubble is a function of the hurricane’s barometric pressure, the lower the barometric pressure the bigger or higher it gets. As the hurricane moves onshore the bubble moves along with it, and that is what causes the surge and all the flooding. The steepness of the pressure gradient, or how fast the pressure falls as you go toward the eye also determines the steepness of the surge or bubble. Remember that a hurricane is a circular area of low pressure or a depression in the atmosphere (troposphere) with winds spiraling in toward it, it’s like water flowing down a circular depression in the ground, the steeper the gradient, the faster it will flow in toward the center. With the steepness of the circular depression in the ground analogous to the pressure gradient in a depression in the atmosphere. Hope that makes sense.
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