[wildandcrazyrussian]

That would have taken some journalism with enough curiosity to spend two minutes to find a website with direct weather data such as

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=44065

which is a buoy ten miles out at the entrance to the NYC harbor area, and showed 32' (thirty-two foot) waves as the hurricane was coming ashore that evening. (Now it shows the usual 5' range.)

[basil]

This must be horrendous for all of those people.

The best I can do is pray for them.