----> Hurricane SANDY. Possible catastrophe for New York City and Boston! <-----

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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.

The destruction won't be anywhere near katrina. The reason the guy picked the "perfect storm" as a comparison is because of the relatively low damage associated with it. By saying this is 5x that of the perfect storm gives off the impression that this is some sort of doomsday bullshit that people are feeding into. I mean its not sensational news if they say "this storm could do 1% of the damage katrina did". Its typical misleading jounalism.

A billion dollar damage is very minimal (and those are high extimates).