Superstorm Sandy in first sentence as alternate title It s now approaching the one year anniversary of the storm Before we get there I think we should settle whether or not to include the name Superstorm Sandy in the first sentence Superstorm Sandy gets a hefty 3 7 million Google hits compared to 15 million for Hurricane Sandy I believe the article does a disservice by not including the alternate name Just six days ago FEMA called it Superstorm Sandy the National Weather Service called it as such and it continues to be a regular name in the news see CNN At this point it s become a perfectly valid alternative name to the event and it should be treated as such in the first sentence as Hurricane Sandy unofficially known as Superstorm Sandy was the deadliest and most destructive hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season