SHAMOKIN - Superstorm Sandy left behind a litany of things when it passed through Northumberland County earlier this week: Fallen trees, downed power lines, damaged roofs.
It also left behind 4.63 inches of rain.
Four-day totals from Aqua PA's Roaring Creek Division were: Sunday, 0.35 inches; Monday, 2.53 inches; Tuesday, 1.61 inches; Wednesday, 0.14 inches.
That falls in line with forecasts that immediately preceded Sandy's arrival Sunday, with lower Northumberland County right on the border of either 2 to 4 inches or 4 to 6 inches.
It was less than the 6 to 10 inches originally forecast late last week as the storm passed the Florida panhandle and headed north up the East Coast.
The rain that came with Sandy was enough to cause some basements to become wet and some sizable puddles on roadways, but paled in comparison to what fell last September when Tropical Storm Lee caused historic flooding locally. The highest local total from Lee reported by the National Weather Service was 12.04 inches in Bear Gap, which fell over a 3 1/2 day period.
Lee's wrath left the Shamokin Creek channel in downtown Shamokin badly damaged, with a pending restoration project funded by the federal government at roughly $1.8 million.
This time, officials from the local sewer authority say the waters didn't make it wall-to-wall, a relief to those who feared the worst for an already battered creek channel in downtown Shamokin, not to mention in Ranshaw and Tharptown.
What Sandy lacked in rainfall was more than made up for in the punch packed by its high winds.
Lower Northumberland County lucked out compared to many communities to the east. More than 400,000 PPL customers lost power during the storm, and more than 180,000 remain without electric service as of early Thursday afternoon - the majority of whom live east of here, be it southeast, northeast or due east.
But an estimated 4,400 county customers lost power in the storm - about 2,300 in Shamokin and the townships of Coal, Ralpho, Shamokin and the Camerons - and caused more than minor inconvenience as 149 outages remained early Thursday afternoon.
According to measurements recorded at Northumberland County Airport, the strongest sustained winds recorded at the airport were 43.7 mph and the strongest gust at 57.5 mph.
That fell within National Weather Service estimates Tuesday of between 50 mph to 60 mph.
Peak gusts of 48 mph were recorded at both Williamsport and Harrisburg airports, according to the airports' personnel.