Is there a difference between a Hurricane and a Super Storm. For example Hurricane and Super Storm Sandy? Thank you.

This is not a legal question but I believe a hurricane is stronger than a storm. Sandy had been downgraded by the time it reached the New York metropolitan area.

Dear Brentwood Tenant: A "super storm" is a media created expression to take the place of explaining that the tropical cyclone named "Sandy" was no longer a meteorological "hurricane" because the system had lost irs tropical storm status due to its merger with a secondary low pressure system ( a "storm") but because the resulting system contained powerful winds and was driving an immense storm surge to low lying coastal terrain, simply saying Sandy is "down graded" to less than a hurricane ( sustained winds in excess of 74 mph) would have created a false sense of security, and great risk to life, that sustaining the motion that great danger was still posed by this weather lead to "super storm". Also, the tremendous destruction caused by the storm needed to separate this weather system form a mere hurricane into a force greater than that of a defined hurricane, hence "super storm". Super storm, unlike hurricane is not a meteorologic defined event.

The term superstorm was created to avoid classifying Sandy as a hurricane for insurance purposes. Many insurance policies have exclusions for hurricanes and the government was able to provide more assistance and relief by decatagorizing the storm from hurricane to "super storm". Hurrican is also a technical term that has to due with the speed of sustained winds. I believe that by the time the storm made landfall the sustained winds were no longer strong enough to categorize the storm as a hurricane.