The media attention is overblown.
I’m still waiting for the death toll to be as bad as Joplin
And you are comparing apples and oranges. Tornadoes give little warning. Hence the high death toll. With hurricanes, you can get out of the way if you are smart enough.
Oh, and BTW, Sandy killed a total of 160 people.
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=2284
Death toll: 160 (88 in the U.S., 54 in Haiti, 11 in Cuba)
So I guess you’ll have to find yet another way to belittle what went down.