Photo by Ronnie R

Some of the images of the havoc wrought by Hurricane Sandy are unshakable: New Jersey communities under six feet of water, Lower Manhattan deluged and blacked out, a tanker ship breeched on Staten Island.

In D.C., the one place everyone expected to be mired in murky, post-storm depths stayed above water. The Bloomingdale neighborhood prepared for Sandy by stocking up on the free sandbags the District government distributed last weekend, but anticipated that like many times this summer, Rhode Island Avenue NW between Third and North Capitol streets would become a swimming pool.

But the city’s pipes were able to handle yesterday’s rainfall, D.C. Water General Manager George Hawkins said at a post-hurricane press conference with other city leaders. “The volume of the flow never exceeded the capacity of the pipes,” he said.

Instead, Bloomingdale is flood-free today, with only the sporadic leaky ceiling or basement. Nothing terribly exciting happened in the neighborhood during Hurricane Sandy, well, except that guy.