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onlyme1984 t1_iu8vmne wrote

Reply to comment by PSEOL in 10 years ago by ReggieNJ

You’re not wrong, but at the same time nobody imagined it would be as bad/destructive as it was. Yes they warned us, but we never saw anything of that magnitude before.

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PSEOL t1_iu8y3tq wrote

And a graphic from NHC wouldn’t have changed that…

Let’s not pretend the NHC just stopped reporting information once the storm was extratropical, because that wasn’t what happened.

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this_my_reddit_name t1_iu94fk5 wrote

Yeah, I can't say I know where this hate for the NHC is coming from. I do know that there's some debate in the weather enthusiast community as to if Sandy made landfall as a hurricane or extra-tropical storm. Sandy making landfall as a named tropical cyclone would have upped the insurance deductibles a lot of homeowners would have had to pay. I know my deductible is pretty significant if such an event were to occur. It's significant enough to where I would have to weigh making the repairs out of my own pocket or paying the deductible and making a claim. There's a "conspiracy" theory that states the scientists downgraded Sandy to extra-tropical just before landfall under pressure from the government to keep insurance deductibles down. Yeah...I don't know about that one.

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onlyme1984 t1_iu9hcth wrote

I wasnt referring to the NHC reporting - wouldn’t have changed a thing you’re absolutely right. I just meant that despite all the warnings regardless of what type of storm they said it was nobody was prepared for what hit us.

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this_my_reddit_name t1_iua2q24 wrote

You know, part of it was definitely this mindset that "oh, Irene wasn't that bad, it's just the news media blowing it out of proportion again!"

In a way, the worst thing that could have happened to us was Irene. I remember we went all out preparing for Irene. We were nervous, the fire department rode around telling us there was a mandatory evacuation, and - in our area - it was a big nothing burger. Power was out for a few days and nothing else happened really. Then a year later Sandy hit and - in the middle of it - we came to the realization that Sandy WAS the real deal. I had water lapping up against the tires of my first ever brand new car. I was convinced I was about to lose it to the surge. Thankfully, the water started receding before that. My neighbors weren't so lucky.

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ismokeweedle t1_iu9mbkx wrote

My family had seen our fair share in Puerto Rico so they took it pretty seriously. Hurricane Georges trapped us in our neighborhood bc of flooding, no power/ water for weeks. I was in Louisiana during Sandy, my family leaving the coast gave me some peace of mind.

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