That’s all you hear up here in the Northeast. Sandy was a 50 year or longer storm. You would swear we were getting hit with one every year with the constant hysteria.
Meanwhile, the politicians are still busy stealing the Federal aid while homeowners and business owners are still not rebuilt.
There were plenty of hurricanes that hit the Northeast in the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and earlier decades -- the difference is that the coastal areas weren't as built up or heavily populated back then. People were lulled into a false sense of security by the fewer major hurricanes that made landfall in the decades that followed. There is a reason that "hurricane lamps" and "hurricane shutters" were invented. In the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, being without electric power for a time wasn't as painful as it is today.