inches ever rain. that will also bring us some inland flooding. so how rare is this for the east coast, jeff? well, you know, we get storms through out florida. we get them in the carolinas. it happens quite a bit. we have had plenty of active seasons. but for the storm to make it up into new york city, the new england area and hold its hurricane status, there have probably only been, you know, han handful of those in history. they have, i believe, hurricane edna in the 50s. hurricane express in the 30s. and what is known as tropical storm or storm number 6, before we started naming the storms. i got ahead mif self. there was hurricane bob in 1991. but i mean, overall, when you think about this, it is a very rare occurrence for this storm to make it all the way up into the northeast, new england area, and i think that s why so many people are concerned. because so many people don t know how to prepare, they don t