SAMANTHA GROSS and BETH FOUHY The Associated Press NEW YORK – Stripped of hurricane rank, Tropical Storm Irene spent the last of its fury Sunday, leaving treacherous flooding and millions without power , but an unfazed New York and relief that it was nothing like the nightmare authorities feared. Slowly, the East Coast surveyed the damage , up to $7 billion by one private estimate. The center of Irene crossed into Canada late Sunday, but for many the danger had not passed. Rivers and creeks turned into raging torrents tumbling with limbs and parts of buildings in northern New England and upstate New York. Flooding was widespread in Vermont, and hundreds of people were told to leave the…
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