Well said . That is why people will be continually amazed by surge in storms like Sandy . Top level winds meh . Fetch ..enormous
Perfect storm fetch sent humongous swells to palm beach county over 1400 miles away . Swell jumped from about 4 feet to 15 feet on bouys in several hours .
Since you are probably one of the only folks who may find it interesting ..Youtube vids of Bill at Schoodic point @ Arcadia looked like the biggest east coast surf I’ve seen filmed .
**Also continuing this tangent , one of the coolest swell phenomena I think you would appreciate occurred in Delray Beach Florida with cat 5 Hurricane Isabel well ESE . Delrays swell window is NE swell to NNE about 50 degrees to 25. It is blocked to the SE and E by the grand Bahamian bank . Except for a tiny swell window that alligns with the new providence channel in between two Bahama islands to the East . The channel is about 10 miles wide and open from a 100 degree angle swell .
The beaches a few miles south of delray saw 2-4 foot swell that sort of looked refracted and the city of delray itself saw 12-15 foot swells. I was there that day after checking out minimal surf 5 miles south i was shocked as I pulled up to Delray , it sounded almost like 15 second bombs going off front photographers lined the beach , and the swells looked like the size of “houses” just lined up as far as you can see to the horizon . Was crazy . This is a research paper on the phenomena that day
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/241223741_How_the_Swells_of_Hurricane_Isabel_Impacted_Southeast_Florida