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Talking heads keep pounding that Oct 29, 2012 Cat 1 Hurricane Sandy is an "unprecedented super-storm" for New York,...
Talking heads keep pounding that Oct 29, 2012 Cat 1 Hurricane Sandy is an "unprecedented super-storm" for New York, with winds gusts 90 mph and 13.7 ft storm surge at Battery Park, NYC.

Wikipedia says otherwise
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_York_hurricanes

13.7 ft storm surge in indeed high, but not unprecedented.

Sep 21, 1938 -- The New England Hurricane of 1938 (AKA "The Long Island Express") makes landfall on Suffolk County (Long Island) as a cat 3 hurricane with wind gusts of 125 mph and storm surge of 18 ft, killing ~700 people throughout New England.

Wind gusts of 90 mph are even less unprecedented:

Sep 21, 1938 -- The New England Hurricane of 1938 (AKA "The Long Island Express") makes landfall on Suffolk County (Long Island) as a cat 3 hurricane with wind gusts of 125 mph and storm surge of 18 ft, killing ~700 people throughout New England.

Sep 14, 1944 - The 1944 Great Atlantic Hurricane makes landfall on Long Island with wind gusts of well over 100 mph, breaking previous wind records in NYC.

Aug 31, 1954 - Hurricane Carol makes landfall on Long Island and produces wind gusts of 120 mph on Montauk Point, Long Island.

Oct 10, 1954 - Hurricane Hazel - wind gust of 113 mph at Battery Park, highest ever recorded in New York City.

Sep 11, 1960 - Hurricane Donna makes landfall on Long Island as a Category 2 hurricane. Sustained winds of 100 mph on eastern Long Island and 70 mph (110 km/h) winds on western Long Island are reported, with gusts of 115 mph.

Sep 21, 1961 - Hurricane Esther.  Wind gusts of 108 mph on Long Island.

Sep 27, 1985 - Hurricane Gloria makes landfall on Long Island as a Category 2 hurricane. Wind gusts of up to 100 mph.

It only makes sense to call Sandy "super-storm", if the others were "super-duper-storm, hyperstorm, etc...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_York_hurricanes

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