[lonestar]

Calling me a liar?

Are you familiar with Rita and Ike?...both stronger than Sandy.

[muawiyah]

I am familiar with a tropical storm called Agnes (name since retired) that was more powerful than those two storms combined.

Don't mistake CAT, based on windspeed in the tropical winds core, with total storm strength.

Sandy was a large hurricane with a lot of water that formed in a few hours just South of Jamaica. It ran into and was absorbed by a large Nor'Easter that was in turn part of a front that extended from the tropics to the arctic! This one storm center was 1000 miles wide. Try pi r squared for territorial extant. It was UNIQUE.

Ike and Rita had nowhere near the destructive force of Sandy ~ which is still spinning BTW!