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"New Hurricane-Strength Scale Could Send Earlier Warnings"...Q&A discusses how the I.K.E. scale takes into account the surge produced by storms that the old SSS scale did not...(article source located here)

USA Today article-"New hurricane scale puts more focus on storm surge"... discusses the dangers of storm surge and how the Saffir-Simpson Scale does not relate enough information concerning storm surge...(article source located here)

Houston Chronicle-Eric Berger's article "If Ike was ‘only' a 2, how accurate is storm scale?..." discusses with Bill Read the public need for a better system that more accurately describes the storm strength and surge.

SciGuy - Eric Berger's article "Hurricane season goes bye-bye. So might the Saffir-Simpson scale as we know it, too." discusses efforts to modify the Saffir-Simpson scale to better account for storm surge values. (article source located here)

SciGuy - Eric Berger's article "Ike's destruction points way to new warnings." discusses a proposal to develop a new scale for classifying hurricanes that better accounts for storm surge. (article source located here)

WeatherBrains - Listen to the podcast of Dr. Mark Powell discuss Integrated Kinetic Energy scale and Surge Destructive Potential

Time For a New Hurricane Rating System? - Capital Weather Gang

Validus Holdings, Ltd. Provides Information on the Financial Impact of Hurricanes Ike and Gustav - Zibb.com

SciGuy- Eric Berger's article "Can we do better than the Saffir-Simpson scale?" discusses concerns about the adequacies of the Saffir-Simpson scale. (article source located here)

Insurers’ Hurricane Loss Estimates Off By Billions

IBHS Warns: Hurricane Ike is Much Stronger Than it Appears- Stock Market News - Duedee

McClatchy Washington Bureau | 09/12/2008 | Mississippi paper, recalling Katrina, urges Texans to flee

Americans need a better way to assess the risk of hurricanesSaffir-Simpson categories contribute to casualties

Lancashire reveals hurricane hit but upbeat on investment returns

Ike's storm surge an extreme danger to Texas

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