2B.10B: Consequences of Coastal Flooding and Storm Surges

• UK 2013 Storm Surge

  • 1400 homes flooded
  • Rail services disrupted
  • 2 deaths
  • Cost of damage - £100m
  • Parts of Newcastle flooded
  • 200km/hr winds
  • 18,000 evacuated
• Bangladesh 2007 Cyclone Sidr Storm Surge

  • 4234 dead and missing
  • $29.6m damage to roads etc
  • 1.5m houses damaged
  • Total cost $1.7bn
• Happisburgh 2013

  • 15th century church (St Mary the Virgin) and 1790 lighthouse
  • 2013 - high tide and storms
• USA 2012, Hurricane Sandy

  • The landfall of hurricane Sandy in New Jersey and other US states with a storm surge of up to 4 m
  • US $70 billion in damage (e)
  • 6 million people lost power (s)
  • 350,000 homes in New Jersey were damaged or destroyed (e)