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From Effects of Hurricane Igor in Maine, by Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/):
...Over Maine's entire south coast, Hurricane Igor produced a massive storm surge, peaking at 22.9 feet at Belfast, at the head of Penobscot Bay. Although Igor never made landfall in Maine, it paralleled the state's south coast as a powerful Category 4 hurricane with its center never more than 55 miles from shore, causing massive flooding in southern Maine, a situation exacerbated by a high tide occurring as Igor passed by Maine and by the up to 57 inches (145 cm) of rainfall the state received from the hurricane...
...Igor's enormous circulation produced sustained hurricane-force winds over the entire state, peaking at 145 mph (233 km/h) in southern Sagadahoc County and 150 mph on Monhegan and Ragged Islands several miles offshore, with a gust to 171 mph (275 km/h) recorded on Monhegan Island...
...Over 70,000 homes were destroyed in southern Maine by the strong winds and storm surge, and another 52,000 in the central and northern parts of the state, accompanied by 2,200 deaths and damages totaling over $6.7 billion (2010 USD, $7.4 billion 2014 USD)...
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From Thousand Year Storm: Hurricane Igor and its Aftermath, by Meryl Fitzgavin:
...Although Igor never made landfall in Maine or New Brunswick, the hurricane's massive winds and enormous wind field produced Category 3 and 4 winds over the southern coasts of both the state and the province as it tracked to the east-northeast, close offshore...
...It is exceedingly fortunate that few people lived on the scattered rocks off the southern coasts of Maine and New Brunswick, as Igor's enormous storm surge crashed completely over these scattered rocks, virtually wiping any trace of human settlement there off of the face of the Earth. The plantations at Monhegan and Matinicus Isle were utterly destroyed, and the lighthouses at Monhegan Island, Matinicus Rock, Ragged Island, and Mount Desert Rock were all destroyed, as was the Canadian-operated light on disputed Machias Seal Island...
...The massive damage inflicted by Igor was an abrupt wake-up call for the National Flood Insurance Program, which had only avoided being plunged deeply into debt due to the fact that very few of the properties flooded out by Igor were insured under the Program; in January 2011, Congress passed the National Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2011, better known as the Lynch-McLaughlin Act, which designated large portions of the Eastern Seaboard as Special Flood Hazard Areas (SFHAs) and also required that NFIP premiums be adjusted to reflect the real risk of flooding, which would sharply increase premiums for residents of many coastal areas; however, it allowed uninsured people who had been flooded out of homes in the new SFHAs on or after 1 January 2010 to purchase flood insurance retroactively, greatly assisting them in their efforts to rebuild, and it also permitted people lacking the ability to pay the higher premiums to continue to pay their preexisting, lower premiums if they were either enrolled in the Program as of 12 January 2011 or were retroactively enrolled after the passage of the Act...
...Building codes were also updated considerably as a result of Igor, with many coastal and valley areas now requiring that basements and all other floors partially or fully below ground level either be capable of being made watertight, or else have watertight, pressure-resistant bulkheads to seal off all equipment vulnerable to water damage (required, when tested under real-life conditions, to successfully exclude water from the enclosed area for 72 hours while submerged to a depth equalling their intended depth below ground level plus 6.1 metres [20 feet] in turbulent, debris-carrying water flowing at a speed of 40.2 kph [25 mph]), with hundreds of thousands of houses being substantially rebuilt to meet the new codes...
...Other new requirements included those that all new residential or office construction, all other permanent construction with an intended maximum occupancy of 20 persons or more, and all construction intended to contain, for any length of time, any kind of hazardous material as rated by the United States Department of Transportation (with the exception of materials in classes 1.5 [Blasting Agents], 1.6 [Extremely Insensitive Explosives], 2.2 [Nonflammable Gases], and 9 [Miscellaneous]) be supported by solid piers extending down to and embedded in solid bedrock, or, if no solid bedrock exists within 30.5 metres (100 feet) below ground level, by steel or reinforced-concrete piers or friction piles extending at least 22.9 metres (75 feet) below ground level, be capable of withstanding a sustained 193.1 kph (120-mph) wind against the exterior surface of any of its walls for 36 hours and suffering either no or only minor structural damage as a result, and have either double-layered or triple-layered windows capable of withstanding a sustained 193.1 kph (120-mph) wind against their exterior surfaces for 36 hours without either breaking or coming loose from their frames and capable of withstanding the impact of a 22.6 kg (50-pound) object moving at 160.9 kph (100 mph) against any part of their exterior surfaces without giving way...
...Greater New York City suffered grievous damage from Igor; although the storm's centre passed far to the east of the Big Apple, the most populous metropolitan area in the United States was hit by sustained Category 2-intensity winds, with gusts of up to 244 kph (152 mph) being recorded in Brooklyn, thanks to Igor's enormous wind field, and Igor's massive storm surge and rainfall produced vast amounts of flooding in the metropolis, with the geometry of New York Harbor funnelling the surge up the Hudson and East River valleys and partially backing up the water flowing down the Hudson, both effects combining to amplify Igor's effect on the city out of proportion with the wind, rainfall, and storm surge recorded in the coastal areas to the east and west of the bay...
...Much of Manhattan was flooded, with the reclaimed land concentrated in the south of the island suffering the worst; in many of the reclaimed areas the erosion from Igor's massive flooding was so severe as to leave the areas submerged even after the floodwaters subsided...
...Even in the areas not eroded below water level, the East Side, having been considerably flattened out during the growth of the City, suffered severe damage, with thousands of buildings being destroyed and, in several areas, the roads themselves being washed out completely, leaving behind debris-strewn, gently sloping mudflats...
...Manhattan's subway network was almost entirely flooded, completely destroying many of the stations, shorting out electrical lines, wrecking trains, and in four places even causing the collapse of the tunnels themselves, damage totalling over US$900,000 to repair, and that even now in 2014 has not yet been fully repaired, with eight stations still not operational and re-excavations only recently completed for the last and longest of the collapsed tunnels...
