Strange Things Writers Research

Today, I am researching hurricanes and specifically storm surges.  What kind of an effect would a storm surge have on the trench.  Could it reach the tiers?  What would happen to the people who were caught in its wake.  What if a tidal bore were occurring at the same time?  I love being a writer.  I learn such fascinating things.

A Writer's Secret Life

By Photographer: Caroline Rogers, U.S. Geological Survey [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

I joke with my friends that I hope a crime is never committed in which I am a suspect.  As a writer, when you hit something you do not have first hand knowledge of, you look it up.  Now, in this day and age there is a record of everything that you have looked up even if you clear your browser cache.  Only the top notch IT person knows how to really get that off your computer.