[Popman]

——Sandy was no joke in terms of damage done never mind duration.-——

“Super Storm Sandy” ( I hate that term) was a joke. It wasn’t even a hurricane when it made landfall...

The damage done was mostly bad timing from wind surge and high tides and poorly planned development with decades old building codes on the beach front...

I would hate to hear the whining if they experienced a real hurricane like Andrew...

I empathize with the people who lost everything, but it could have been much, much worst on a scale they don’t understand...

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[ripnbang]

——Sandy was no joke in terms of damage done never mind duration.-——

“Super Storm Sandy” ( I hate that term) was a joke. It wasn’t even a hurricane when it made landfall...

The damage done was mostly bad timing from wind surge and high tides and poorly planned development with decades old building codes on the beach front...

I would hate to hear the whining if they experienced a real hurricane like Andrew...

I empathize with the people who lost everything, but it could have been much, much worst on a scale they don’t understand...

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Yep...high population density in an area that hadn’t experienced something like that in some time, with poor building codes and generally being prepared. Coupled with a nanny media in a media rich environment and the need to bolster the global warming myth during a highly charged Presidential election.

[Olog-hai]

Well, I wasn’t comparing it with Andrew, which was a monster, but was still less costly to the US either way. Also, nothing really matched Sandy’s range in terms of diameter thus far.

The neologism “superstorm” is an example of the worst of tasteless media hyperbole, too.