Hurricane Helene's storm surge inundated neighborhoods on Siesta Key, leaving businesses and residents with conditions unlike anything most had seen on the picture-perfect island barrier island ...

Aiden Bowles was stubborn, so even as Florida officials told residents of the barrier island north of St. Petersburg that Hurricane Helene’s storm surge could be deadly, the retired restaurant ...

In any tropical storm or hurricane, the biggest danger is not the wind. It's the water. Storm surge, the massive amount of relentless water that comes ashore during a hurricane and up into rivers ...

After first hitting Florida's Big Bend region on Sept. 26 with 140 mph winds, torrential rain and a far-reaching storm surge, Helene moved inland, inundating parts of Georgia, South Carolina ...

With catastrophic storm surge expected along Florida's coast when Hurricane Helene slams ashore Thursday, northern Gulf Coast residents Gene and Margaret Taylor understand better than anyone about ...

That's storm surge. It's more deadly and destructive than wind and can make a significant impact far from the center of a storm.. The most common way to measure a hurricane's strength is the ...

Bolivar Island faced major destruction from Hurricane Ike's storm surge in 2008 When a hurricane threatens the United States, a lot of attention is focused on the path and the wind speed.