When the storm came, homes crumbled into pieces and were carried away by floodwaters. Others were leveled in place by toppled trees, leaving little evidence of what stood before. Roads broke apart. Cars were tossed about. Boats landed on residential streets. Majestic trees that had lined neighborhoods for decades were uprooted after being pummeled by unrelenting rain and wind. The catastrophic storm made landfall in the state on the evening of Oct. 29, 2012, killing at least 38 people, many of whom died in the days after the storm, and causing some $29.4 billion in property damage.