Every time I hear the expression, “super storm sandy”, it irritates me a bit.
I don’t doubt that it did a huge amount of damage but that is because the area was vulnerable not because it was a super storm. It was a minimal hurricane and maybe not even a hurricane at all when it hit.
That is far from a super storm.
Likewise. You build on a bunch of sandbars and a good storm will wipe you out. It wasn’t a super anything, it was stupidity matching up with probability.