Dr. Kim Wood

There's a couple complicating factors here.

So you're going to have widespread trees falling on roads, power lines down.

All kinds of infrastructural elements that we rely on for day-to-day life has been thwacked.

And often these places, you know, waters may have receded, but then you've got all these damage soaked places, mold issues, all kinds of things.

So like the impacts are felt far and wide for a long time.

So the water can be bad from that perspective, but like kind of in the moment, the power of water cannot be underestimated because water,

One foot of moving water can knock over a person.

So, you know, just add feet and you're adding impact.

You've got the winds on top of that.

So it's hard to kind of differentiate the water from the wind in that context, especially if you also get hit with a tornado warning at the same time.

Because getting away from water, you go up in a house.

Getting away from a tornado, you go down in a house.

Well, what do you do when you have both?

That's one reason why evacuation can be encouraged for some of those most vulnerable areas.

But not everyone can evacuate.

But then you have a situation like Hurricane Florence in 2018.

where it dumps a lot of rain.

Oh my God.

Yeah.

So it really is a multifaceted hazard, highly dependent on where you're located.