[aruanan]

Hurricanes make a large dome of water, the storm surge.

The principal cause of the storm surge is wind. That's on the leading edge of the hurricane as it approaches land. If a hurricane were to approach directly to the northeast an area like the panhandle of Florida where it breaks to the Florida peninsula, the area on the panhandle side of the hurricane will have a lowering of water due to the wind blowing away from the land; the land on the peninusular side will experience a surge due to the wind blowing toward the land.

[chris37]

That is not necessarily the case, aruanan. From my understanding, storm surge is caused by both wind and low atmospheric pressure. Underneath the hurricane, the level of seawater is actually raised up. While the hurricane is in deeper waters, wind is able to blow some of this water away, but as it approaches shallow waters, the mountain of water builds up as it cannot escape, and then comes ashore as a rapidly rising tide.

But it is the rising sea out in the open that concerns me, because that water is sucked upwards. It is here that I am worried deep pools of escaped methane could come into play. Maybe it will not happen. I certainly hope that this is the case, I don’t want to see anything like this.