You fail to realize a major flaw in the Saffir-Simpson scale - its failure to forecast surge with 'weaker' storms. Katrina, Chaley, Ike and now Sandy had surge two levels higher than their Saffir-Simpson scale would otherwise indicate. Some meterologists have a new scale called IKE - Integrated Kinetic Energy - which figures out the total energy of the storm and is a bettery predictor of surge. And Sandy had the highest IKE ranking in history. Which is why its effects were felt as far away as the Midwest and its surge impacting from NC to Rhode Island.
So much for your notion that it was a weak storm. BTW, it's kinda hard to hype an approaching tornado, since you typically don't have more than 20 minutes of warning for such, and there was plenty of media coverage afterwards.
I really think you just don't like our neck of the woods up here. Please, if you are going to keep pretending this was not a significant event, just stay off the threads. You and a few others sniping about the media attention being overblown got this one wrong.
The media attention is overblown.
I’m still waiting for the death toll to be as bad as Joplin
What kind of warning was the media giving? Besides naming it Frankenstorm, did they give any advice as to what to do? How to prepare for it? or did they just say "the big one's coming"?
I don't have a TV and the radio was not giving much warning up here. There was just a mention on Friday that the Gilboa dam was filled to capacity and something had to be done about that. This storm acted the same way as Irene. The difference being that the Gilboa dam had been emptied so we were not flooded by the creek.