![Photo of Jamie Rhome, now acting director of NOAA’s National Hurricane Center, measuring the impact of storm surge from Hurricane Florence at a heavily damaged home in New Bern, North Carolina on September 26, 2018. (Image credit: NOAA) Photo of Jamie Rhome, now acting director of NOAA’s National Hurricane Center, measuring the impact of storm surge from Hurricane Florence at a heavily damaged home in New Bern, North Carolina on September 26, 2018.](/sites/default/files/styles/landscape_width_1275/public/2023-02/PHOTO-Jamie-Rhome-measuring-storm-surge-height-following-hurricane-Flolrence-091418-New-Bern-NC-NOAA.jpg?h=0af4b82a&itok=353nemJV)
When Hurricane Florence crossed the North Carolina, coast on September 14, 2018, it brought hurricane-force winds and — as forecasted — strong storm surge. Jamie Rhome, now acting director of NOAA’s National Hurricane Center, measures the impact of storm surge at a heavily damaged home in New Bern, North Carolina on September 26, 2018. (Image credit: NOAA)