Just now looking at TV shots of large swaths of New Jersey still underwater ~
BTW, I"ve been relocated myself, even lived through a tropical storm here with two weeks of rain. Then there was hurricane Hazel ~ it made it all the way to Indiana, but on a trail of destruction, and it rained for about a month. This storm was so big it was still blowing and flooding Eastern states and it too was in Indiana ~ and Illinois and Wisconsin ~ created 25 ft high waves on Lake MIchigan. Only reason you don't hear much about damage around the Great Lakes is there are only a few parts where people actually have structures down on the shoreline ~
Tornadoes are far worse. Been through several of those. Our neighborhood was hit with one 12 blocks wide that bounced from one street to another ~ and left us alone. All our neighbors to the East and West found their homes turned to trash ~ all their stuff scattered everywhere. The lucky ones simply had their roofs turned end to end. We may have lost a couple of tiles, but our good fortune in the midst of destruction was rare.
Tornadic winds are far faster and more powerful than hurricane winds, but a single tornado, unlike even a weak hurricane, is not likely to shut down a state.
The most amazing thing to us is that the Jersy beach houses aren't on stilts...they sit on the ground.