[Mad Dawgg]

"I call BS on that if there's no source. Not a slam ... that's just too high."

Apparently she has lost contact with them in the last hour or so so I can't get the source but I am telling Mom the same thing 50 Foot is just waaay too high. I would think we would have to be Cat 5 or above for that kind of surge.

[dirtboy]

Apparently she has lost contact with them in the last hour or so so I can't get the source but I am telling Mom the same thing 50 Foot is just waaay too high. I would think we would have to be Cat 5 or above for that kind of surge.

The world record for surge, I believe, is 49 feet or so for a cyclone that hit Australia many years ago.

[Abigail Adams]

Oh, I just found this:

The National Hurricane Center is forecasting a 20-foot surge — a rapid rising of water inundating areas and moving inland — for a large swath of Texas and the Louisiana coasts. Above that, the center predicts “large and dangerous battering waves.” Waves could be 50 feet tall, said hurricane center spokesman and meteorologist Dennis Feltgen.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,420783,00.html

[mstar]

50 Foot is just waaay too high. I would think we would have to be Cat 5 or above for that kind of surge

Correct me if I am wrong. I had read St. Bernard Parish had a 64 ft wave during Katrina. Surge along with waves could do this. It is not about Cat 2 or Cat 5, it is about the pressure.