O. H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory

Coastal-engineering wave lab at Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA.

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Source	Author	Role	In one line
Hurricane vs. Tiny House	Practical Engineering	setting	Two scale houses, one storm surge: the elevated one survives.

Hurricane vs. Tiny House — Practical Engineering (2025)

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The OH Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory is one of the largest facilities of its kind in the world. Since the 1970s, this lab has supported cutting-edge research into coastal engineering challenges like sediment movement, tsunami behavior, and wave-structure interactions.

• Role: setting
• In the article: The narrator watches two one-third-scale houses, at different elevations, hit by simulated storm surge in the lab’s Directional Wave Basin. The lower one collapses; the raised one is barely damaged. The test answers the question raised by Hurricane Ian’s flood claims in Fort Myers: how high is high enough.
• Why it matters: The experiment, and so the article, happens here.