Are these tall buildings designed to take a hurricane? I can't help but thinking of a tall building flooded part way up with winds and waves battering at the exposed part. What about the foundation? Wouldn't the building topple due to a soft, water-laden foundation and all that force acting on it?
Water is basically incompressible. You know what a belly flop feels like. What about all that beating on the buildings? I wouldn't feel safe in one.
You raise several good points. New Orleans is not built on bedrock.
Maybe we watch too many disaster movies!
The Twin Towers were supposed to be indestructible.
I was on the White Oak River in NC during Hurricane Bertha. Long story short, I stayed cause my grandparents were idiots and wouldn't leave. You CANNOT stop water, and it is very destructive. The wind is horrific too. I saw a 100 yard pier lifted up by the wind, and then destroy several others. The storm surge is faster then a blink of an eye, and the storm strikes quick, and once it starts you might as well forget about evacuating.