Even though I only found this out by checking the NHC website, apparently Irene was starting to go extratropical Saturday night and had hurricane-force winds something ridiculous like 150 miles to the east of the center. It didn't have an eye, or much of one. It was one bizarre, lopsided storm.

I'm not sure what kind of winds everybody else got. There are towns to the north, west, and east of us that got major flooding, but we only got a few tree limbs down...it's kind of eerie. We're not near any major rivers or bodies of water. We did get very heavy rain, though.

I think some of the wind damage in eastern CT was actually caused by a tornado.