Lol I don't wanna hype this up at all or anything but this look at day 5 on the GFS kinda looks like the
The overall z500 near the east coast isn't that dissimilar from the January 2000 event however a few minor details mean the difference between nothing and a monster. Namely, this s/w in the southern stream cutting off sooner & amplifying more and the northern stream slowing down just a tick, that's really the difference here. Certainly hard to get big coastal lows in the right place w/o much greenland blocking, sure overrunning events are easy to come by in a pattern like this (relatively speaking haha), but w/o a -NAO, it's pretty difficult to get a monstrous Miller A.