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Column: 'Unsurvivable' may not be a word, but it sent a clear message about Hurricane Laura
Rudi Kiefer
The days before the August 27 arrival of hurricane Laura at the Louisiana Coast brought a new term to the news. “An unsurvivable storm surge” was how the National Hurricane Center (NHC) characterized the coming disaster. Even though the word “unsurvivable” wasn’t in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary yet, it sent a clear message to coastal residents to get out of the area.