[wardaddy]

nothing personal dear but 3-5 inches of rain is not remarkable..high but not a whole lot compared to comparable events...

Camille West Virginia rains in 1969 were 20 inches

Katrina rains up to 15 inches

Nashville floods 2010...15-24 inches

Grandaddy of all was Mitch who lingered over NE Central America and dumped SEVENTY FIVE inches of rain in 3 days...now that is remarkable and then some

I do appreciate your diligence but I am not alone in seeing hype in this storm from jump street

not that it helps those few folks actually impacted

a 3 foot surge is less than high tide in many spots worldwide that are further from the equator

[who knows what evil?]

Rain has stopped on the east side of New Hampshire; wind has abated to a gentle breeze. Several of my tomatoes have some bent stems...corn is listing to starboard. Sunny for the next seven days, though...time to repair the damage.

[dirtboy]

wardaddy, realize that Philly already had reported record one-month rainfall for any month this August before Irene came through.

Realize that the previous record was from when Floyd came through and flooded the crap out of the region.

Realize we have seen major flooding from Irene because, although Irene averaged two inches less than Floyd, the rain was on top of already-record rainfall, that in some drainage basins they saw record flooding.

And realize we are very grateful that there was no nearby frontal boundary like what happened with Floyd and Agnes to amplify the tropical rainfall, and realize that us in the NE are not just being wimps, but realized this could have been really, really bad and are grateful that it was just bad.