[dirtboy]

There are three factors that affect storm surge:

One other factor - the nature of the ocean floor just off the coast of the area to the right of where the eye makes landfall. Surge tends to get amplified in shallow waters...

[Chairman_December_19th_Society]

One other factor - the nature of the ocean floor just off the coast of the area to the right of where the eye makes landfall. Surge tends to get amplified in shallow waters...

Conceded. I was talking about what happens to the water after it crosses the MSL shoreline, but you are absolutely right.