HURRICANE Irene left a trail of widespread power outages, broken trees and flooded buildings — plus megatons of ripe, ready-to-harvest fruit on the ground up and down the East Coast. After rains of 2 to more than 10 inches, the deluge in river valleys from Virginia to Maine was still receding as this article was being written. Federal Emergency Management Agency officials were already pegging Hurricane Irene losses at more than $ 14 billion.
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