This Hurricane Sandy happened in the minds of members of the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) in Westchester County, New York, 15 years ago this month.

The webpages created at the time to war game this imaginary Hurricane Sandy are still online. The main page reads in part:

Hurricane Sandy is a fictitious hurricane based on a real one: the Hurricane of 1938. The following National Weather Service advisories and storm tracks are based on data from that storm and are being used as stimuli for an Amateur Radio emergency communications drill. They were produced at a training seminar at the National Hurricane Center in Miami, FL.

The first, fake Hurricane Sandy was an exercise for ham radio enthusiasts to practice relaying vital information should a situation identical to the real Hurricane Sandy ever occur, destroying more conventional lines of communication.

The mock-ups they created of National Weather Service bulletins about the storm make for eerie reading now, as the budding superstorm forces evacuations around Long Island Sound and closes the stock exchange:

...LARGE AND POWERFUL HURRICANE SANDY MENACING THE ATLANTIC
SEABOARD...AT 5 AM EDT...0900Z...THE HURRICANE WARNING IS EXTENDED NORTHWARD
TO ROCKLAND MAINE. A HURRICANE WARNING IS NOW IN EFFECT FROM CAPE
LOOKOUT NORTH CAROLINA TO ROCKLAND MAINE.

The ARRL drill involving Hurricane Sandy certainly seems strange now, but similar coincidences have occurred in the past. After the Titanic plummeted to the bottom of the North Atlantic in 1912, someone remembered that a little known author named Morgan Robertson had written a novel many years before that was eerily similar to the tragedy.

The Observer checked Internet Archive versions of the pages related to the fictional Hurricane Sandy to ensure this was not a hoax.

They have been online and unchanged for a decade and a half.

It's cool, Miley, we know that dude is lying.

Los Angeles police were called to Miley Cyrus's home in Studio City, California early Saturday where they confronted an allegedly scissor-wielding man who claimed he was married to the singer.

Police told the Associated Press that "employees" in the residence made the call. When the authorities arrived, the man met them at the door.

Officers didn't believe the man, identified in one report as Jason Luis Rivera, when he claimed he was intimate enough with the 19-year-old singer to hang out in her house at 4 a.m., carrying scissors--that'd be strange even if couple really was married. So, inevitably, things got weird:

[Los Angeles police Lt. Brian] Wendling says the suspect then repeatedly threw himself against an outside wall as if he was trying to break into the house. Cyrus was not home at the time.

Police say Mr. Rivera, age 40, attempted to hide in nearby shrubbery, to no avail.

The Observer uncovered a MySpace page for a Jason Luis Rivera who closely resembled the man seen in the photo published by OnTheRedCarpet.com. He listed his occupation as "poet" and his top three friends were ideal sister wives for the alleged delusional stalker about town: Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato and Amanda Bynes.

As of Saturday afternoon, the intruder had not been formally charged.