Please get a few things through your head:
a) “Category” refers ONLY to wind speed in the said storm, not anything else - not pressure, not width and breadth, not movement speed, nothing. It is very simplistic.
b) “Superstorm” does NOT refer to the “hurricane” by itself, per se. It was used to describe the tropical cyclone mixed with the front from the west.
This dismissive attitude it irritating.
Look up Agnes. That was what I feared here. A “minor” storm by doctrinairs like yourself, but so huge in impact over a HUGE area, not just a few hundred miles of coastline. It was certainly major in scope, if not as much in scale as Katrina. Which wasn’t as major in scope. Except for the fact apparently massive permanent residency changes were made.
I don’t give a crap what “category” it was. I never ever discussed category, extent, etc.
You said it was “overhyped.” I said it wasn’t! There is major destruction to property and land and deaths up and down the Jersey coast and in New York.
Also, it has nothing to do with those who evacuated and those who did not. Thousands of people who evacuated are safe but have no home now. Those with or without homes have been displaced because they are not permitted to return to their property. Children have no schools, and repairs to gas and electric lines might take 6-8 months. That’s the latest word.
Again...it was not overhyped!