You can call it weak in terms of wind velocity but you would be missing the big picture. The problem was that three fronts met in one place, something that has never been recorded in this area. Toss in that it was a full moon and the utter devastation the area experienced makes sense
Wind statistics were never the point.
Correct, but you cannot call it the worse hurricane to hit the area. Historically there have been worse with higher winds speeds. So Sandy was not just a tropical heat driven hurricane event. There were plenty of other factors. IOW - The devastation had no correlation to global warming. And your area got hit with another one the previous year. That was the Year Bloomberg ordered the evacuation of New York and the Hurricane fizzled.