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feet or more above normal sea level. While the hurricane-force winds die down as the storm moves over land, the vast quantities of water within the system can cause major flooding well inland from the coast.
Last September, Hurricane Hugo ripped through the islands of the northeastern Caribbean before making its final landfall on the coast of South Carolina. With total damage estimates as high as $10 billion and a death toll of 49 people, Hugo was the most costly hurricane in history.
Residents of South Carolina’s coastal areas returned to scenes of unimagined devastation after Hugo’s landfall. However, hurricane damage was not confined to the coast. The weakened storm moved
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