That is rough. I witnessed levels of water not seen in decades. It never really made news. Lots of destruction downstream.
This storm along the coast should be an advisory at best. People have been so dumbed down that they will cringe at the thought of thunder.
I picture my 80+ year old uncle who was a lifeguard at the Jersey shore 60 years ago and has lived there before and since and whose father lived there long before (was the mayor of their town), who knows the birds in the yard and the geese that fly over every day twice a day and who fishes in the ocean, checking his surroundings, the wind, the size and quality of the surf, and he is getting himself and my aunt the heck out of there in the car of the first son to come down and get them.
He might check the forecast from White Plains, but they could check with him. He could tell them there’s something coming this way.
An idiot calls others dumb.