answer:While the Northeast doesn’t get hit by a hurricane every year, neither does any other particular part of the US. Some years even Florida and the Gulf Coast are spared. So although we don’t get them “frequently”, we get them often enough that they aren’t unknown here. I expect we’ll be getting some gale force winds and a lot of rain in northern Connecticut on Sunday night. (Last year I tried to sail in the remnants of Earl in Massachusetts, but we didn’t get much breeze inland then; I ended up just sailing in the rain. It was still a nice early evening sail, though.) I’m looking forward to that. The coastal damage and storm surge the comes with the storm… well, that’s just part of what has to be planned for on the coast, and good luck to those folks who don’t evacuate. No sailing for me this time, I think.