“Forecasters said Sandy was a rare, hybrid ‘super storm’ created by an Arctic jet stream wrapping itself around a tropical storm.
“The combination of those two storms would have been bad enough, but meteorologists said there was a third storm at play – a system coming down from Canada that would effectively trap the hurricane-nor’easter combo and hold it in place, amplifying the inland flooding effects.
“Moreover, the storm was coming ashore at high tide, which was pulled even higher by a full moon.”
From “Sandy strengthens as it nears East Cost; Wall Street shut,” Daniel Trotta and Tom Hals, Reuters
Embattled Farmers 
Can’t wait to see how Mitt will spin it all over the next few days . . .
I’m kind of hoping that the shutting down of Wall St for two days might force the powers to think about climate change.
At last.
Nope, won’t happen.