Tropical Storm Irene Anniversary

2 years ago today...this happened:



What a crazy storm that was. It had like 3 landfalls. Tremendous flooding. In fact, Irene caused more damage in my home town than Sandy did. Go figure.

What do you all remember best about this storm?

Irene was interesting. Most of my town evacuated, but my family stayed. Had some heavy rain, a little wind, a good nights sleep and it was gone. Never lost power, had only minor flooding around town, no problems what so ever in my house.
Other places especially north got hit hard. Especially up in Vermont and upstate NY. They got slammed with inches upon inches of rain.
The NHC did a bad job if i remember correctly with the intensity forecast with this one. I remember watching tv a few days before saying it was going to be a 100mph hurricane when it was near the area. I think i got a max wind gust around 60.....if that

Winds were definitely not much of an issue with this storm. However, rain was. A lot of areas saw 5-6 hours straight of heavy rain. Northern NJ flooded severely since they have many rivers (including my town). Many homes destroyed due to flooding. Sandy, for us, did more wind damage. Did not get much rain (maybe 2 inches).