Irene flooding left Vt. home on unexpected island
The Miami Herald Sunday 22nd January, 2012
Already a killer storm, Irene sloshed through the New York metropolitan area Sunday, briefly flooding parts of the city and severing power to a million people but not provoking the doomsday urban disaster that had been feared. Diminished to a tropical storm and racing to its own overnight demise in New England and Canada, Irene killed at least...
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