What the researchers put in a parenthetical note, residents of Florida’s Big Bend felt in flooded roads and homes reduced to debris: The Big Bend faces high risks of storm-induced flooding but ...

• WUFT News: Storm surge frequency is rising, but Big Bend still a black box. "The stretch of coastline between Apalachicola and Cedar Key flares neon red on flood risk maps but goes dark on ...

It’s expected to be a major hurricane in the eastern Gulf today with landfall in the Florida Big Bend tonight with a life-threatening storm surge. Storm surge could be as high as 4 to 7 feet in ...

In the Big Bend fishing village of Steinhatchee, ... The storm surge shoved buildings off their foundations. Linda Wicker lost the restaurant she had owned for 20 years.

A slow-blooming tempest that stalked Florida this week became Tropical Storm Debby on Saturday afternoon and is expected to hit North Florida's Big Bend area as a Category 1 hurricane, weather ...

A storm surge warning is the likelihood of life-threatening water that’s rising and moving inland from the shoreline within a specified area within 36 hours of a storm’s arrival. A warning could be ...

The largest national park in Texas may soon get even bigger. Big Bend National Park could soon expand by more than 6,000 ...

Storm surge is especially dangerous because it often happens quickly and can reach places that have never flooded before. It can also occur ahead of the storm's center, giving little time for ...

“A wave hitting a structure in a hurricane is like getting hit with an SUV or something. And it’s happening every few seconds,” Haus said. Storm surge can level coastal buildings and create ...

The storm surge figures seem miniscule upon first glance: less than one-millimeter more per year for the eastern Gulf. By contrast, sea level rise in the area is three and a half times that amount.

By analyzing data from the past 70 years, scientists discovered trends related to changing storm surge levels. The Southeast and Gulf coasts are some of the worst hotspots.