No, but it wasn’t a hurricane....hardly anyone experienced even a hurricane worthy gust. But as in most coastal storms (including northeasters), the damage is caused by water and not by wind. I have often thought that helped Obama win reelection and I read some part of a research paper that was published that claimed it helped sway a small sliver to vote for him, but I guess we will never know for certain.
The potential to saturate the ground so heavily that trees topple onto power lines even without heavy winds is possible with this storm where the ground is already saturated....Virginia’s already calling for state of emergency since they are already dealing with flood waters after their recent rain storms.
Republicans never quite forgave Chris Christie for the Obama huge when he visited NJ after Sandy. We’ll never know the actual electoral impact, but it didn’t help the GOP.