Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - DW - 20171123:09:21:00
Out at sea violent winds of a hurricane push surface waters towards the coast the sea level rises creating a destructive super wave called the storm surge. in hurricane sandy's case other natural factors may decide to ation. what is the stage of the tide when the hurricane hits and for sandy it hit high tide but also there was a full moon every two weeks there's an extra strong tide we say a spring tide and it just so happened that not only was the tide high but there was extra high tide due to the moon and then the storm hit and that's why the so. damaging.
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