I wasn't working in St. Joseph until the following summer ('12), but I used to go there as a tourist and was there sometime not too long after Sandy came thru. I couldn't believe how much beach sand had been blown into big drifts to the point the normal driving lanes through the park at Silver Beach were blocked. Iirc tho, they had already put up the snow fences for the normal autumn windstorms, so they most likely just waited until spring and took front-loaders to put all the sand back on the beach. Rain fall may not have been too heavy but remember others posting that it was hitting everything sideways just like a full-fledged tropical storm.
This system has smashed the all-time record low pressure for a tropical system or extratropical remnant in Kentucky, and it's not even close to anything else on record.