IT WAS STILL OVERHYPED !!!
It was a Cat 1 hurricane. It was not a ‘SuperStorm’.
A Cat 5 hurricane such as Katrina or Rite were ‘SuperStorms’.
“I live in NJ. People are dead and homes and businesses are completely destroyed. Not overhyped!”
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.