Jindal noted that the levees and flood walls in southeast Louisiana held up to the storm's wind and rains, to the relief of citizens and officials alike, but that water did overtop New Orleans' Industrial Canal.
There is the rubbish that comes from the land, delivered by run-off, storm water drains and the wind-blown rubbish that people leave behind.
One Crestron client in the Gulf Coast has a weather vane and cameras that detect wind and automatically shut storm windows in the event of a hurricane.
The site records the wind strength of hurricane and tropical storm winds, and strike probabilities.
The direction of the wind matters, too, because wind blowing to shore can drive a storm surge and lead to coastal flooding.
"In general, look it up first by whatever means, " he said, noting sharks falsely popped up in photos after Sandy, swimming in front yards and down streets, along with doctored images of dramatic storm clouds and wind whipping around the Statue of Liberty.
The storm hit California and Arizona on Monday with strong wind and rain, knocking out power to thousands and kicking up a dusty haze in the metropolitan Phoenix area.
Emergency officials in New Jersey said they were monitoring a coastal storm, expected to bring lashing rain, wind, snow and possibly coastal flooding to the region hit by super-storm Sandy in October.
He rode out the storm on the roof of a transport truck after the wind and flood jerked him out of his shoes.
"The brunt of the storm itself was intense but short -- there was very strong rain and wind for about 15 minutes, at which point the rain cleared and the lightning show began, " said Matthew Burke, a CNN iReporter who photographed lightning sprawling across the New York City skyline.
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