Not sure if I can show offsite url's Mike but this one is a fantastic video of what storm surge really is. The waves just keep stacking and stacking and stacking as they keep coming in but they never really go out like normal wave action. The last part of the video really showed what it was really about. People need to understand that the Gulf Coast took over TWENTY FEET of storm surge during Katrina. Whole houses (and their owners) were gone, leaving only concrete pads to indicate where there used to be a home(and a family).

Anyways> Link that shows Storm Surge right up close and personal. Last part of video really shows the worst of it.