MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — The storm that had been Hurricane Irene crossed into Canada overnight but wasn't yet through with the U.S., where flood waters threatened Vermont towns and big city commuters had to make do with slowly reawakening transit systems.
The storm left millions without power across much of the Eastern Seaboard, killed at least two dozen, and forced airlines to cancel about 9,000 flights. It never became the big-city nightmare forecasters and public officials had warned about, but it caused the worst flooding in a century in Vermont as well as damages across several states.
Below and on the following pages are some images of the effects of Hurricane Irene as it made its way north from the North Carolina coast and into New England.
A home on Fairfield Beach Road is submerged in Pine Creek in Fairfield, Conn., as treacherous weather caused by Tropical Storm Irene blew through the area on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/The Connecticut Post, Cathy Zuraw)
Streets of Asbury Park, N.J. are flooded after Hurricane Irene moved through the area Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. Rivers and creeks surged toward potentially record levels late Sunday as Irene, just the third hurricane to come ashore in New Jersey in the past 200 years, charged to the north and left behind a mess — and a sense that the state got off relatively easy. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)
A person searches for anyone who may be occupying the building as raging flood waters from Tropical Storm Irene cross Route 100, closing the main road to traffic in Waitsfield, Vt., Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Sandy Macys)
Residents watch as water rushes over the Ascutney Mill Dam on Kennedy's Pond in Windsor, Vt., Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. A weakened but dangerous Tropical Storm Irene dumped up to half a foot of rain in places, flooded roads, knocked down trees, and left more than 165,000 New Hampshire homes and businesses in the dark before blowing out of the state on Sunday. (AP Photo/The Valley News, James M. Patterson)
Storm damage is seen after Tropical Storm Irene passed, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011 in Westbrook, Conn. Irene weakened to winds of 60 mph, well below the 74 mph dividing line between a hurricane and tropical storm. The system was still massive and powerful, forming a figure six that covered the Northeast. (AP Photo/Fred Beckham)
A shrimp boat is bashed against the dock of Daniel's Seafood at the shoreline of the Pamilco River near Aurora, N.C., Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011 after Hurricane Irene hit the North Carolina coast. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
A destroyed home sits near the shoreline of the Pamilco River near Aurora, N.C., Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011 after Hurricane Irene hit the North Carolina coast. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
Paige Martin, far left, and Anna Knecht Schwarzer watch from a bench at the Transit Center as the Whetstone Brook floods downtown Brattleboro, Vt. on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. The remnants of Hurricane Irene dumped torrential rains on Vermont on Sunday, flooding rivers and closing roads from Massachusetts to the Canadian border, putting parts of two towns underwater and leaving one young woman swept away and feared drowned in the Deerfield River. (AP Photo/The Brattleboro Reformer, Chris Bertelsen)
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