What kind of storm was it? Consider these anecdotes from the nor’easter that blew through starting Friday and finally pulled away Monday:

• At about noon Saturday, members of the harbormaster’s office got a 911 call about a potentially dangerous situation out on the water — the supposed disappearance of two kayakers from the East Branch, where they had been spotted along the west side of Great Island by a concerned citizen.

“We got underway and searched for over an hour,” assistant harbormaster Rick Smith said. “Searched the islands, waterways, marshes in pouring rain.”

It all turned up nothing, and fire department members, who were on standby, were called off around 1:15 p.m. Presumably, the kayakers made it to shore and just were missed by the person who spotted them.

• Photographer Steve Connors sent in a photo of a structure that succumbed to the winds — a portapotty that had toppled over. There were scattered power outages and downed tree limbs, and during high tides Saturday and Sunday the water rose above — just above — the level of the docks at Westport Point.

• And on Saturday evening, at the height of the wind and rain, long distance swimmer Neil Klein thought better of swimming from Gooseberry Island to Horseneck Beach, his original plan, and instead decided to swim from East Beach, at the bottom of Horseneck Road, to Gooseberry. He was worried that the predicted northeast winds were a bit too much out of the north for his first plan, but found good conditions at the end of Each Beach Road.

“A short and wild 1,200 yards,” he reported after donning his wetsuit and taking the plunge.

Along his route, East Beach sustained, at best, a very glancing blow — very little cobbling, only the most minor of flooding, and no structural damage from the north and northeast winds.

At one point Saturday morning, just after high tide at 8 a.m., the sun actually poked through the clouds at East Beach.

Still, prepared

The storm may have been a big miss, but town officials took no chances late last week as it approached.

At East Beach, seasonal residents began hauling out their trailers Wednesday and Thursday. The neighborhood’s improvement association president, Kevin Curt, said residents were watching weather reports — everyone was preparing for it, he said.

At the point, harbormasters went over emergency preparedness and response, and spent Thursday morning running drills with three de-watering pumps they had ready to go in case they were needed by local boat owners. Though one was needed the previous day for a boat that took some water over the stern, they were ultimately not needed during the storm.

“I think we’re in good shape,” assistant harbormaster Rick Smith said as the storm approached. “Many of the smaller boats have been hauled out already. The larger boats are still in their slips at Tripps [but] the mooring field has thinned out considerably."

“There’s a few things we have no control over, but I think we’re preparing best we can,” Smith said. “I think we’re ready — just kind of hunkering down and waiting.”