Amateur video captured a car being swept away in Bennington, Vermont. The floods, triggered by Tropical Storm Irene, caused massive damage across the state.
(Aug. 30)

I have a friend in northern Maine that tells me he only got a couple inches of rain and 45 mph winds out of Irene. One of his daughters lives in Brattleboro Vermont, where flooding was a big problem.

Flooding in downtown Brattleboro, VT on August 28th, 2011 after Hurricane Irene.

From 230 miles above the Earth, cameras on the International Space Station captured new views of powerful Hurricane Irene as it churned over the Bahamas at 3:10 p.m. EDT on August 24, 2011. Irene is moving to the northwest as a Category 3 hurricane, packing winds of 120 miles an hour. Irene is expected to strengthen to a Category 4 storm as it heads toward the Outer Banks of North Carolina, the Eastern Seaboard and the middle Atlantic and New England states.

Hurricane Irene unleashed its winds and rain Saturday on eastern North Carolina, raking coastal villages and reaching well inland to topple trees, flood towns and leave hundreds of thousands without power. (Sat night Aug. 27 from AP Service)

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