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Old 11-01-2012, 12:19 PM   #1
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Turns out the triviality of this storm totally depended on where you were. In the NoVA suburbs of DC, lots of 'meh' and 'well that was interesting!' and some flooding, downed trees and power outages, not unlike the aftermath of a rough batch of summer thunderstorms.
The Derecho of 2012 was far far worse for NoVA than this hurricane was.
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Old 11-02-2012, 11:38 AM   #2
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The Derecho of 2012 was far far worse for NoVA than this hurricane was.
Yeah but we were in its rather large bulls-eye. We weren't for this one, we got a glancing blow on the weaker side of the system. That's what I'm saying, the seriousness of the impact totally depends on where you were.
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