Water Resources of the United States
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2018 11:11:40 EDT
Summary: USGS CFWSC staff respond to Hurricane Michael Storm Surge
USGS CFWSC staff (26 hydrographers) are in the field today making discharge measurements, recovering storm surge sensors, and flagging high water marks along the Gulf coast as a result if Hurricane Michael fooding and storm surge. Moderate flooding is occurring at 3 stations and near flooding is occurring at 8 stations in the affected area. Large shifts are being observed at several sites due to large amount of debris and trees down in the river basins.