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Tropical storm Irene swept through the New York City area on Sunday morning lacking anywhere near the force that had been feared, but still power to more than a million people, toppling trees and causing sporadic flooding in some parts of the city.
Though the storm packed winds and heavy rain, it never dealt the kind of punch that forecasters had feared. There were no reports of major to skyscrapers, for instance, and officials said the flooding appeared to be limited. People anxious that they would see destruction out their windows, only to find a scene more typical after a major summer storm.
Still, even after the storm was downgraded to a tropical storm as it the Eastern Seaboard, it tossed floodwater onto the coastline of New Jersey and New York. The National Hurricane Center said the storm made landfall near Little Egg Inlet, north of Atlantic City, shortly after 5:30 a.m., and made it to New York City by about 9 a.m.
Flooding was reported around the five , with the storm surge overcoming sea walls in several places around the city. In Staten Island, several dozen people had to be from homes that had filled with water.
In New Jersey, more than half a million customers were power on Sunday, and the state’s largest utility, the Public Service Electric and Gas Company, that it could take as long as a week to restore electricity to all its customers. Connecticut Light & Power said 267,000 had lost power.
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