NHC not holding back in their latest update on Hurricane Laura: "Unsurvivable storm surge with large and destructive waves will cause catastrophic damage"
Just, incredible incredible stuff. Hurricane Laura will alter history for this part of the Gulf Coast.
NHC just boosted the storm surge forecast to historic levels in Louisiana. 20ft of surge would put Hurricane Laura into rare territory in the 140-year recorded history of hurricanes on the Gulf Coast, on par with Ike (2008) and Galveston (1900). This is a dire emergency.
The current forecast would rank Hurricane Laura as high as 5th all-time in a list of the highest storm surges from 1880-2010 along the US Gulf Coast.
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Hurricane Laura is now in the same company as Camille (1969), Katrina (2005), Ike (2008), Rita (2005), and Galveston (1900) as one of the biggest hurricane threats in recorded history on the US Gulf Coast. That is terrifying.
