East End residents were yesterday giving thanks that the damage from Hurricane Igor wasn't worse.

King's Square was flooded late on Sunday night and the Government tender Bermudian broke from its moorings and crashed into the rocks off St. George's Boatyard.

Bracnches and some rubble covered some roads, but there was little damage to houses and no injuries from the winds and rain that bore down on the eastern parish all day Sunday and through the night.

Plywood covered countless windows and the streets stayed relatively empty until the storm passed.

Yesterday, the Town was bustling with people going to Somers Supermart to get a hot meal, ice and alcohol.

St. George Mayor Kenneth Bascome said: "I just want to say thank you to the Lord because we didn't have any major damage and no one was injured. No damage just part of a roof was lost.

"I think about seven yachts broke free from the moorings. I think other than that, everybody came through unscathed. "

St. George's West MP and Opposition Leader Kim Swan said: "We are very thankful to have survived hurricane Igor and ecstatic that there were no reports of serious injuries.

"Throughout St. George's in particular, and Bermuda in general, residents took the threat seriously and adequately prepared their houses for the unknown.

"The clean-up effort will take time but we all have seen worse and know we came out of this better than our expectations a few days ago.

"Many thanks to the hard working women and men, EMO, Police, Fire, medical, media and all others, who worked through the hurricane to keep us safe and informed."

Streets were filled with leaves, tree branches, rocks and even trees all over St. George's and St. David's. There was flooding outside of Fort St. Catherine Beach and over Southside in addition to the flooding in the Square.

One resident said: "The Square flooded when the tide came up last night. The water was up to the stage area of the square. It was probably about 10 p.m. It was underwater."

The two-lane road leading to Tobacco Bay was filled with tree branches until workers from the Parks Department cleared the path to allow traffic to go through.

Benches in King Square were over turned and boats in the Harbour had broken free.

Cut Road, the road leading to BIOS and Ferry Reach, all had large pieces of debris littering the roads.

In St. David's, the road to Clearwater beach was covered with large rocks and branches to the point where no traffic could go through.

Parks worker Ezekiel Burrows said his department knew the damage would be bad, but not that bad.

"Last time, it wasn't this bad. We need a machine, a bulldozer. I don't know how long it will take to clear and I don't know when they're going to do it but it needs to be done.

"St. George's is fairly clean. I know the beaches up South Shore are gone. Last time, it was basically half the damage. We're going to need trucks and everything."

The road was cleared by late yesterday afternoon but Clearwater Playground remained a large puddle.

Over on Texas Road, a utility pole crashed down onto a house and another into the road.

More Parks crews were out cleaning up the streets.

One worker, Shaki Moniz said: "There's been minimum damage. It ain't that serious. I think up the country is more serious. We will be out until 5 p.m. We're just here to clean up the roads."

Over at the Lambe Foggo Urgent Care Centre, there were more patients that usual. The centre doesn't usually open until the afternoon but accommodated patients from the morning.

St. George's residents Mike and Debbie Montgomery were out walking their dogs on King Square yesterday morning.

Mr. Montgomery said: "We were prepared. We boarded up the windows, we got ice and lots of water in buckets, prepared food."

Mrs. Montgomery said: "I made ice in containers. We have lost power but the freezer is loaded up with food and ice. We didn't lose it until 10 p.m. There was a power line down on our street."

Mr. Montgomery added: "We called Belco. It took us three hours to get through. We think they cut the power because there were sparks."

Mrs. Montgomery said their home was fine despite losing bits of cedar trees and leaves strewn about the yard.

"We thought before we started to clean, we would come out for a walk .We were really lucky. I just hope the power comes back on soon."

Rowan Ramotor, manager of Somers Supermart in St. George's said the shop had been very busy since opening at 10.30 a.m.

"The deli has been open since this morning. There's been a steady stream of customers. People are buying a lot of ice and liquor. That's about it.

"We ran out of fresh meat before the storm. That's basically it and the deli's been steady. We didn't lose power."

The grocery store had a generator out back in case the power went.