i-have-n0-idea t1_iu8xniu wrote on October 29, 2022 at 2:04 PM

Reply to comment by PSEOL in 10 years ago by ReggieNJ

Yeah. We almost stayed because we were fine with Irene, But when they said 12 foot storm surge, we weren’t going to risk it. Storm surge is nothing to F with. Got 2 feet of water on our first floor. Would have been terrify to watch that come in. My street has never had that kind of water before. Crazy.

mdp300 t1_iu9acuf wrote on October 29, 2022 at 3:40 PM

I definitely remember some government agency, maybe National Weather Service, issuing very serious warnings because they didn't want to think it would be like Irene again.

A_Downboat_Is_A_Sub t1_iu9ew00 wrote on October 29, 2022 at 4:13 PM

They showed their storm surge forecast map for Sandy to Chris Christie and he thought they were joking, so he told them to come back "with the real map". An hour later they presented him with the same map, and that's the moment he knew it was going to be really bad.