Ironraven,
I've been watching this unfold from the other side of the pond. If this much damage has been done by a "mere" - and I had better not hear anyone to use that term in front of the bereaved - tropical storm, one shudders to think what an "average" hurricane would have done. Or a Katrina.

One interesting point worth noting is the attack of acute post storm sheeplitise. As in it did not come to the worse therefore everyone has over reacted.
Might make an interesting subject for the next FEMA meeting.