[lonestar]

You obviously haven't seen pictures of the TX coast after Ike came ashore. Where houses are damaged on the NJ beach, they were GONE after Ike.

I live 70 miles inland and Rita left a big pine tree on my house; seven uprooted huge trees in my yard; we had no electrcity for three weeks.

I have expericenced hurricanes all my life.

Christie is acting like a big, fat sissie!

BTW, all names are retired after being used to name a hurricane.

[muawiyah]

Obviously you are unfamiliar with the phenomenon of flood damage ~ as compared to wind damage. Your insurance agent is. Speak to him about it.

In any case, this particular cyclonic weather phenomenon was about 1000 miles wide. That's just short of 800,000 square miles, which is 3 TIMES the total area of Texas!

Ike, in comparison, was about 1/4 the size of the total area of Texas.

That makes Ike 1/12 the size of Sandy!