For most people along the East Coast, the recent nor’easter was a nightmare. But for surfers, there was one very different side to the storm. New Jersey novelty-wave specialist Ben Gravy captured the payoff in his latest video, scoring clean, powerful surf after days of violent weather battered the coast. The footage shows groomed walls, hollow sections, and legit barrels—the kind of East Coast conditions that can appear for only a few hours once a major storm’s winds finally cooperate. Check out the recap below. Surfline had forecast overhead to locally double-overhead swell across the Northeast, with western Long Island among the areas turning on once winds swung offshore. Offshore, the storm was producing something much uglier. The National Weather Service estimated seas around 20 feet off Ocean City, Maryland, noting that individual waves could have approached 30 feet. Several communities endured eight to 10 consecutive tide cycles of moderate-to-major flooding.…