Wall Street Journal: Vermont towns battled historic floods, utility crews struggled to restore power to five million people along the East Coast, and big-city commuters coped with transit-system disruptions Monday as the rainy remnants of Hurricane Irene crossed from the U.S. into Canada.
The death toll climbed to 35 people in 10 states after a number of bodies were pulled from the floodwaters in the Northeast.
The storm never became the big-city nightmare forecasters and public officials had warned about. But it toppled trees and power lines and washed away roads and bridges-some of them well inland from the coastal areas that bore the brunt of Irene's winds.