Mets/Mods:

I have a question about storm surge from Hurricane Katrina. Was the storm surge above the forcasted height? I'm thinkin that the storm surge was higher than predicted because of the surge's momentum from the time that Katrina was a Cat 5 storm. I realize that the height of the storm surge is related to wind speed and the coastal geography. I'm wondering if the surge was under estimated by citizens because it was "only" a Cat 4 storm hours before landfall, when in reality, the storm surge height was "lagging" behind the sustained wind speed due to the momentum of the storm surge.

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