How can this sentence be corrected?Hurricanes can cause a lot of damage because of high winds, rain, and storm surge.

There are a couple of ways to approach this.  Initially, I
would say that the sentence is not entirely wrong.  I think that it can be refined and
based on the different versions offered, you might be better suited to select which one
captures the meaning you want.  In the end, language is subjective in terms of the
selection of words and phrases to convey what is in our mind, so I think that being able
to select from an array of options might allow you to be able to fully capture what is
present in your mind's eye.  One thing you might want to start adopting is eliminating
"a lot" in your writing. Changing that to, "much" or "a great deal of" each time you
wish to you use "a lot" will help out "a lot" (Sorry, bad joke.)  It will help out a
great deal in clarity of your writing.   The new sentence, then, could read, "Hurricanes
can cause a great deal of damage because of high winds, rain, and storm surge."  I would
also suggest that the last noun is changed to a plural one, as in "storm surges" because
hurricanes bring out more than one storm and the previous nouns have been pluralized
('rain" is more collective, than anything else.)  The other thought I had was placing
the more vivid parts of the sentence in front to grab the reader:  "As a result of high
winds, rain, and storm surges, hurricanes can cause a great deal of damage."  These and
the other options provided might be able to help bring out more richness in
writing.