I'm going to take a philosophical view here. I would speculate that Hashem brought hurricane sandy upon the east coast to give decent, intelligent Americans a chance. How so? Well, for all those in NY and NJ affected by the power outages, the gas lines, the flooding etc, what SHOULD they have learned from that experience: The ineffectiveness of Big Government in times of crisis. It flies in the face of the entire Democratic point of view, but it is the reality. Big Government programs are wasteful, inefficient, bleeding out the sustenance of the american workers, and in times of true crisis are very limited in what they can ACTUALLY do to help.
So a smart person should have seen through all the photo ops and radio talk about obama shaking this baby's hand and cradling this elderly victim in his arms. And getting sumo wrestled by this NJ governor. A smart person should have seen that was all facade and meaningless and taken the true lesson here: We pay out our rear ends in taxes and there isn't much point to most of the wasteful and excessive govt programs (excessive is the key word here) which Obama and company only want to expand.
So what was the noreaster that came a week later? Perhaps a punishment for overwhelmingly supporting the evil muslim once again in the election! Unfortunately, these things happen collectively, so even good people suffer along with the evil imbeciles. That's my take on it.