Over 300,000 people lost power.

Trees were torn up

Trees were splintered

Lots of streets looked like this.

Lots of vehicles met this fate

Many buildings were damaged by falling trees

Lots and lots of downed trees

Downtown was heavily damaged

Many windows in the cities taller buildings were blown out.

The boardwalk behind our hotel

The pavement near our hotel

The boardwalk behind our hotel

Many houses lost siding

More homes damaaged

Some houses lost roofs.

Notice the roofs (or lack thereof) on the dormers

Even the Golden Arches sucumbed

Want fries with that?

Some houses lost windows or even roofs.

Bye-bye roof

Many boats on the waterfront were damaged, some even sank.

Another sunken sailboat, notice the damaged buildings

Other boats rode the storm-surge ashore....and stayed there.

How strong were the winds? How much wind does it take to blow railroad cars off the tracks? This was directely across the harbour from our hotel room!