Storm’s Push North Leaves Punishing Inland Floods - ABBY GOODNOUGH and DANNY HAKIM

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/30/us/30vermont.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

While most eyes warily watched the shoreline during Hurricane Irene’s grinding ride up the East Coast, it was inland — sometimes hundreds of miles inland — where the most serious damage actually occurred. And the major culprit was not wind, but water.

As blue skies and temperate breezes returned on Monday, a clearer picture of the storm’s devastation emerged, with the gravest consequences stemming from river flooding in Vermont and upstate New York.