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WASHINGTON (AP) — An unusual nasty mix of a hurricane and a winter storm that forecasters are now calling "Frankenstorm" is likely to blast most of the East Coast next week, focusing the worst of its weather mayhem around New York City and New Jersey.



"The Perfect Storm only did $200 million of damage and I'm thinking a billion," said Jeff Masters, meteorology director of the private service Weather Underground. "Yeah, it will be worse."

But this is several days in advance, when weather forecasts are usually far less accurate. The National Hurricane Center only predicts five days in advance, and each long-range forecast moves Sandy's track closer to the coast early next week. The latest has the storm just off central New Jersey's shore at 8 a.m. on Tuesday.

As forecasts became more focused Thursday, the chance of the storm bypassing much of the coast and coming ashore in Maine faded, Cisco said.

The hurricane center's Franklin called it "a big mess for an awful lot of people in the early part of next week.
Damage from Katrina was in the 100 billion range
New Orleans is about 1500 miles away from where this one is hitting, they are used to storms like this down there every once in a while.

The densely populated East Coast is not, and rarely sees this type of severe weather.

We usually get the remnants of these hurricanes as they fade away up the coast, this one appears to be a direct hit.

Very rare for this far up the East Coast, usually they might hit the Carolina's but hardly ever north of that. This one is going to hit WAY north of that, where there are a shitload of people and other things that can be destroyed. Much more so than down south.