MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show September 3, 2019 01:18:00
Serious. >> it's typically not the wind that's the most serious. it's ordinarily the water. in this case, that storm surge, wave action, all things associated with a storm that stays offshore, it can not only cause tremendous erosion of dunes and all the protective mechanisms along the coast, it can actually at high tide come flooding in and flood areas and just cross over some areas and put water in other areas that it doesn't leave quickly. so there are just so many different impacts that a storm can have even when it's that far offshore. >> we've seen this in the last few years with storms ...
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