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Sandy was becoming a superstorm. while it had hurricane force winds and pushed that wall of water called storm surge towards the coastline by the time it made landfall it wouldn't be a hurricane technically. >> of all the disasters we deal with hurricanes are the one we map and spend a lot of time trying to figure out who is at riching and get the messaging out there for them to evacuate with time to leave. >> reporter: the message may have been missed. there wasn't a hurricane warning because, again, technically sandy wasn't one. to avoid what it felt would be confusion and misrepresenting th...