the most part was a lot less than advertised. and this just tells you how deadly and how expensive a northeast storm can be. again, if a level 4, category 4 or 5 goes through northwest florida, my home region, it depends on where it hits. it can knock down a lot of pine trees. you have something that devalves into a tropical storm can be devastating. if this had been a cat 2 or cat 3, i hate to think of the number of deaths, and i hate to think of the amount of money it would have cost. i think this clearly ends the conversation on was this hurricane overhyped. we think of hurricanes in the hollywood-type version, blown-out windows. we aeched, frankly anticipated, frankly, that this was going to be a disaster zone, a mess. while the intensity numbers were off, they can t yet anticipate i was with the hurricane hunters. they can t yet record how intense the storm is going to be as well as they would like.