Tampa's hurricane luck may finally run out Sunday, in a disastrous way
Tampa, Florida, has avoided a direct hit by a major hurricane since 1921. That luck appears likely to end on Sunday, and it may do so in disastrous fashion.
Tampa-St. Petersburg is a rapidly-growing, low-lying metropolitan area of nearly 3 million, with a coastline that is highly vulnerable to storm surge flooding from a tropical storm or hurricane. If the forecast track of Hurricane Irma verifies, and the storm's center passes just to the west of the city, then onshore winds will pile up water into Tampa Bay.
This could lead to a reasonable worst case scenario of having 6 feet or more of surge inundation in homes, businesses, and critical infrastructure such as parts of MacDill Air Force Base, where U.S. military operations in the Middle East are overseen, according to maps from the National Hurricane Center. Read more...
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