* Rungholt – Wadden Sea in Germany, sunken during the " grote Mandraenke ", a storm surge in the North Sea on January 16, 1362

storm surge and killed 250 people

* 1985 – Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10, 000 people.

* 1997 – The Maeslantkering, a storm surge barrier in the Netherlands that is one of the world's largest moving structures, is opened by Queen Beatrix.

In a geomagnetic storm, a surge in the flux of charged particles temporarily alters Earth's magnetic field, which induces electric fields in Earth's atmosphere, thus causing surges in our electrical power grid s. Artist's rendition ; sizes are not to scale.

* 1839 – A cyclone slams India with high winds and a 40 foot storm surge, destroying the port city of Coringa ( which has never been completely rebuilt ).

* 1950 – The Great Appalachian Storm of November 1950, otherwise known at the time as the " Storm of the Century ", strikes New England with hurricane force winds resulting in massive forest blow-downs and storm surge damage along the Northeast coast including New York City.

This storm surge barrier protects Rotterdam against north westerly Beaufort Force 10 to 12 storms.

One well-circulated but unevidenced answer to the paradox is that Pytheas is referring to a storm surge.

This triggered storm surge, strong winds, and waves on the more vulnerable western coasts of St. Kitts and Nevis, causing significant beach erosion and flooding.

Some meteorological conditions, such as deep depressions that cause tropical cyclones, can generate a storm surge, called a meteotsunami, which can raise tides several metres above normal levels.

The storm surge sweeps fishing villages out to sea, over 2, 000 people die.

* November 25 – Category 5 Typhoon Nina smashes the Philippines with winds and a devastating storm surge, causing destruction and 1, 036 deaths.

* May 25 – Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10, 000 people.

* November 25 – A disastrous cyclone slams India with terrible winds and a giant 40-foot storm surge, wiping out the port city of Coringa ; 300, 000 people die.

On August 28 – 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina pushed a massive storm surge into Mobile Bay, measuring high at Bayou La Batre ( Alabama ), with higher waves on top, and high at Mobile, at the far northern end of Mobile Bay.

The geomagnetic storm – like E3 pulse ( from the test designated as " Test 184 ") even induced an electric current surge in a long underground power line that caused a fire in the power plant in the city of Karaganda.

Flooding near Key West, Florida, United States from Hurricane Wilma's storm surge in October 2005.

A storm surge, from either a tropical cyclone or an extratropical cyclone, falls within this category.

Following the storm, a long, high seawall was constructed to protect the city from floods and hurricane storm surge.

Tropical cyclones can result in extensive flooding and storm surge, as happened with:

The United States Geological Survey states that the highest point in Jacksonville is only 40 feet ( 12. 2 meters ) above sea level, making the area susceptible to flooding and storm surge.

The works consist of dams, sluices, locks, dikes, levees, and storm surge barriers.

The aim of the dams, sluices, and storm surge barriers was to shorten the Dutch coastline, thus reducing the number of dikes that had to be raised.

Beginning three days after the vessel grounded, a storm pushed large quantities of fresh oil on to the rocky shores of many of the beaches in the Knight Island chain.

Jesus referred to the pair collectively as " Boanerges " ( translated " sons of thunder ") being that although their nature was of a calm and gentle manner, when their patience was pushed to its limits their anger became wild, fierce and thunderous causing them to speak out like an untamed storm.

The storm pushed the Susquehanna River to a height of nearly, four feet above the city's levees, flooding downtown with nine feet of water.

On August 29, 2005, the area was devastated by Hurricane Katrina, with a local storm surge of nearly and higher waves that engulfed Bayou La Batre and pushed over 23 shrimp boats and the cargo ship M / V Caribbean Clipper onto shore.

Verrazanno ’ s stay in this magnificent place was interrupted by a storm which pushed him north towards Martha ’ s Vineyard.

A winter storm in the northeast United States caused the airline to delay the departure of the airliner for thirty minutes to allow for connecting passengers to board the flight, so Flight 965 pushed back from gate D33 in Miami at 5: 14 pm, and then taxied to runway 27R, but seasonal congestion caused the Boeing 757 to take off two hours late.

This storm pushed his ship far to the north until he reached the eastern coast of Iceland.

A storm surge estimated to have reached destroyed several structures along the coast and pushed up to inland.

The Hanlan family originally lived at the east end of Toronto Island, but a severe storm in 1865 pushed their little house into the harbour.

In the 1812 Louisiana hurricane storm surge from the Gulf pushed all the way into the River, and there was widespread death and destruction.

As the crew approached the summit of Marcy, they encountered an October snow storm with ice and freezing rain ; despite urging by his guides and assistants to wait for better weather, Colvin pushed on despite the danger of becoming trapped in Panther Gorge.

A long period of storm pushed the water to unprecedented heights, still higher than those at the flood disaster of 1953.

The white man turned out to be a shipwrecked lumberjack by the name of Thomas Pamphlett who, along with John Finnegan, Richard Parsons, and John Thompson had left Sydney on 21 March 1823 to sail south along the coast and bring cedar from Illawarra but during a large storm were pushed north.

On August 19 Hurricane three formed southwest of Haiti and battered the Caribbean with heavy rains and a 5 ft storm surge. Hurricane three was pushed away from the south by a high pressure system and strengthened to a category 1 hurricane west of Virginia.

Civil Defense has far to go and many problems to solve, but is it not in the best spirit of our pioneer tradition to be not only willing, but prepared to care for our own families and help our neighbors in any disaster -- storm, flood, accident or even war??

According to the Lanercost Chronicle, Alexander did not spend his decade as a widower alone: " he used never to forbear on account of season nor storm, nor for perils of flood or rocky cliffs, but would visit none too creditably nuns or matrons, virgins or widows as the fancy seized him, sometimes in disguise.

Hurricane Katrina caused over $ 80 billion of storm and flood damage

One night a bad storm hits the village and there is a flood.

These relatively positive results are despite some concerns about local storm sewers and waste treatment plants frequently overflowing untreated sewage into local waterways due to flood conditions and antiquated infrastructure.

* 1287 – December 14 – A fringing barrier between the North Sea and a shallow lake in Holland collapses during a heavy storm, causing the fifth largest flood in recorded history which creates the Zuider Zee inlet and kills over 50, 000 people ; it also gives sea access to Amsterdam, allowing its development as an important port city.

* December 14 – A huge storm and associated storm tide in the North Sea and English Channel, known as St. Lucia's flood in the Netherlands, kills thousands and reshapes the coastal line of the Netherlands and England.

Cities have often grown onto coastal and flood plains at risk of floods and storm surges.

A civil defense siren ( also referred to as an air raid, civil defence, tornado, tsunami, fire, flood, weather, time, curfew, earthquake, storm, police, emergency, hurricane, or other outdoor warning siren / whistle / horn / alarm ) is a mechanical or electronic device ( modern-day sirens are electrically powered whether they are electronic or electro-mechanical ) for generating sound to provide warning of approaching danger and sometimes to indicate when the danger has passed.

The even more massive St. Lucia's flood occurred 14 December 1287, when the seawalls broke during a storm, killing approximately 50, 000 to 80, 000 people in the fifth largest flood in recorded history.

Pre-Disaster Mitigation grants are available to acquire property for conversion to open space, retrofit existing buildings, construct tornado and storm shelters, manage vegetation for erosion and fire control, and small flood control projects.

The island of Strand vanished in the Burchardi flood, another disastrous storm in 1634: subsequent to this storm surge, there were many small islets instead of Strand.

In 2006, after a rain storm left the area saturated, the Blackwater River crested at close to 23 feet, the highest crest since 1940 excluding the flood in 1999

The flood was the result of a storm which distributed a large amount of water throughout the watershed in which Franklin resides.

* 1682 A very violent storm of rain, accompanied with thunder and lightning, caused a sudden flood, which did great damage to the town of Brentford.

Once the repairing stopped, it became easier for waves to get through ; in 1953 a large storm, measured at 5. 12 metres above ordnance datum ( see North Sea flood of 1953 ) hit the North Norfolk coast and the shingle ridge was mostly destroyed.

Even though large section of the sewer system were replaced in the late 20th century, a moderate rainstorm will cause the storm drain system to back up and flood town streets.

The record height at the New Milford flood gauge is 12. 36 feet set during a storm on April 16, 2007, and the previous second-highest level of 11. 45 feet had been set during Hurricane Floyd on September 16, 1999.

The landing stage was, however, completely destroyed by the storm flood of 1953.

In 1422 a Commission of Sewers was appointed to restore the banks and drainage between Fletching and the coast, which may indicate that the Ouse was affected by the same storm that devastated the Netherlands in the St Elizabeth's flood of 1421.

* A storm surge, or tidal surge, which can cause waves that breach flood defences