In NJ, we were still cleaning-up from Irene, which had decided to empowered the Ramapo River in my town to do a lot of home remodeling. And about a year later, Sandy hit. Just crappy weather for those two years. My kids weren't even allowed to go trick-or-treating in '11 and '12.
PS - The December 2008 Ice Storm, which I was in NH for, was worse than Snowtober. I went out that morning and nearly had to change my pants watching and hearing these 50 foot pine trees just snap all around us. We lived on a dead-end street on the townline and thus were without power for 2 weeks. Luckily for me, I already had a portable 5K power generator that I rigged to run through my dryer outlet and chained to a nearby tree. That allowed me to runt the well pump, furnace, refrigerator, oven, and a few electrical outlets. We took warm showers every other day when I turned everything else off and filled the hot water tank. I was also able to clear enough trees off the road with some help to be able to drive to the gas station (luckily I did not lose power with Sandy as it was impossible for over a week to get gas) and back daily to refill the pair of 10 gallon gas tanks I have. I was one of 3 houses (of maybe 30) on our street that had power. My wife was very appreciative. I did see a few people drive by the house slowly looking at my generator so on Days 2 and 3, so I hung a sign in front of the generator with 'it will take you longer to cut this chain than it will take me to aim and fire the Remington that I have' in large print. On day 4 or 5, a Cop stopped by to check to insure my generator would not 'spill' carbon monoxide into the house and did not say a thing about my sign.
