Which of the following best explains how a hurricane can increase an area’s susceptibility to future storms?
a. storm surges cause massive damage to buildings along coastlines.
b. hurricanes often flood coastal communities.
c. hurricane strength winds cause large amounts of property damage.
d. erosion caused by hurricanes can leave coasts more exposed to storms.

The question is asking which of the following best explains how a hurricane can increase an areas susceptibility to future storms? What were are looking for are long-term effects (flooding is rather short-term) that would change the shape and form of the landscape. Human structures sometimes, but rarely protect the landscape from the storms - it can protect the people inside those structures though. But for the landscape what matters is d. Erosion caused by hurricanes can leave coasts more exposed to storms.- hurricanes can remove a lot of soil that can function as a protection for the areas next to it.

Correct answer choice is:d.  Erosion caused by hurricanes can leave coasts more exposed to storms. Explanation:

Important erosion, rapture, and removal of solids happen through storms. Beach erosion is a typical consequence of the high waves that transpire when hurricanes pass onto land. The decline of sand makes the beach to grow narrower and deeper in elevation. Storm loops take the sand offshore, keeping and depositing the sediment in great sandbars.