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I am noticing that any serious damage done by this storm is limited to a pretty tight area. NYC had some flooding, a bunch of row houses were burned down by the same fire in Queens, and now this levee. Anything else I’m missing?

Yes, you're missing the great majority of the damage. NYC and environs is photogenic and sells copy, but the damage is widespread. And that's the storm surge and initial storm damage.

What's left of Sandy is still in the process of dumping absolute sh*tloads of rain on land; there's going to be widespread damage from streams flooding next plus the usual power outages, fallen trees etc from what's still a strong storm.

Was this, at a national scale, a non-event? Seems like the Colorado fires were a MUCH worse disaster.

There are far more people in the affected area than the Colorado fires, and there's going to be the additional effect of supply shortages and probably rioting too (sometimes I hate humanity). To be perfectly clear- I'm not saying the Colorado fires weren't/aren't a big deal- but the scale of this storm is simply larger.

One of the problems we face is that the media hypes every large storm there is, so after all the false-alarms, well, it's like the Boy Who Cried Wolf. At the moment, it would appear that the Wolf actually showed up this time.

I hope it didn't; I'd rather be wrong about widespread destruction existing than right about it.