Or last week. While the east coast was getting hit hard, the western lake shore suburbs of Cleveland also had 75+ mi/h winds and 7 inches of rain from the west side of Sandy.
The last people got their lights (lost on the 29th/30th) back on November 5th. Utility trucks had to be called in from Missouri since the locals were sent to NY. Huge trees uprooted or with snapped trunks and lots of good size evergreens knocked over onto houses and wires. My daughter's internet (AT&T, blah!) is still out due to a tree.
Most people outside of the area didn't hear about it. Here's a map from Accuweather showing the tiny little dark area in N. Ohio right up against the lake, about 1/3 of the way in from the east.
Speaking of January, if you want to read a fun Cleveland blizzard story, check out the storm of January 25-27th, 1978. Lowest non-tropical mainland pressure ever recorded up to that time (28.28 inches) in the US. Wind gusts of 111 mi/h on Lake Erie.
Lot of great stories from those 3-4 days. Not a lot of snow, maybe 10-15 inches, but it's almost impossible to measure it under those conditions. Our front lawn was bare grass due to the wind, but other parts of the yard were buried. The drifts were 25 feet in places and hard as rock.
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/cle/wx_events/Blizzard78/blizzard/blizzard78.html