A storm tide is a tide with a high flood period caused by a storm. Storm tides can be a severe danger to the coast and the people living along the coast. The water level can rise to more than 5 m (17 ft) above the normal tide. Compare to storm surge. The tide is the regular rising and falling of the oceans surface caused by changes in gravitational forces external to the Earth. ... A flood (in Old English flod, a word common to Teutonic languages; compare German Flut, Dutch vloed from the same root as is seen in flow, float) is an overflow of water, an expanse of water submerging land, a deluge. ... COAST, an acronym for Cache On A STick, is a packaging standard for modules containing SRAM used as an L2 cache in a computer. ... A storm surge is an onshore rush of water associated with a low pressure weather system, typically a tropical cyclone. ...
For the protection from storm tides, long and high dike systems have been built, especially in the Netherlands, northern Germany and Denmark. Storm tides are a regular occurrence in these areas; usually, there are several storm tides each Winter. Most of them do not cause significant damage. A dyke (or dike) is a stone or earthen wall constructed as a defence or as a boundary. ...
Big storm tides were in
1362 (Groote Manndränke – big drowner of men), which created a great part of the wadden sea and caused the end of the city of Rungholt.
East coaststorm surges have been extremely devastating in the past, such as the events of 31 January to 1 February 1953 which killed more than 300 people in the U.K. Sea defences in eastern England were raised and strengthened after the 1953 event, but they are nearing the end of their 50-year lifetime.
The model considers the combined effects of astronomical tide, storm surge, wind-wave processes, non-linear interactions and the physical environment of the coastal zone and is capable of representing both the generation of a flood wave and its propagation inland.
To complement the extensive knowledge of damage from slow-rise flood depth, this study investigated damage from the lateral pressure from flood depth differential between the inside and outside of a residence and flood velocity.
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