Maine
The combined impact from a Nor'easter just one day before Daisy hit, and Hurricane Daisy, caused severe flooding in Maine, when rain fell for 65 consecutive hours in some locations. Rainfall from the two systems caused record rainfall in some areas in Maine. Flooding caused by Hurricane Irene's heavy rainfall washed out two bridges on State Route 27 in Carrabassett Valley.
| Wettest tropical cyclones and their remnants in Maine |
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| Precipitation | Storm | Location | Ref | ||
| Rank | mm | in | |||
| 1 | 251.7 | 9.91 | Irene 2011 | St. Baxter Park | |
| 2 | 240.5 | 9.47 | Daisy 1962 | Portland Int'l Jetport | |
| 3 | 221.5 | 8.72 | Floyd 1999 | Poland | |
| 4 | 209.8 | 8.26 | Donna 1960 | Sanford 2 NNW | |
| 5 | 209.3 | 8.24 | Bob 1991 | Portland Int'l Jetport | |
| 6 | 193.9 | 7.61 | Hanna 2008 | Bar Harbour | |
| 7 | 148.6 | 5.85 | Belle 1976 | Brunswick | |
| 8 | 141.2 | 5.56 | Gerda 1969 | Saco | |
| 9 | 133.4 | 5.25 | Bertha 1996 | West Rockport 1 NNW | |
| 10 | 128.3 | 5.05 | Charley 2004 | Grand Falls | |
Read more about this topic: List Of Wettest Tropical Cyclones In The United States
Famous quotes containing the word maine:
“The surface of the ground in the Maine woods is everywhere spongy and saturated with moisture.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Midway the lake we took on board two manly-looking middle-aged men.... I talked with one of them, telling him that I had come all this distance partly to see where the white pine, the Eastern stuff of which our houses are built, grew, but that on this and a previous excursion into another part of Maine I had found it a scarce tree; and I asked him where I must look for it. With a smile, he answered that he could hardly tell me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)