Since 2008, I have built this column by reporting, editorializing, hypothesizing and explaining the way that the weather, waves and climate of coastal New Jersey can create such pure joy and abject disgust for our communities. And so, I must admit I’m a bit surprised that no one has yet given that weeklong nor’easter a good name.

That storm somehow slipped away from any naming conventions. It wasn’t a tropical storm (technically almost, but more on that later).