There is a large street near me that has a 2 blocks-long section that had 10 mature sycamore street trees that had been planted years ago. Hurricane Irene pancaked 6 of them in 2011 and Sandy took out the remaining 4 in the same fashion the next year, in 2012. Agree that Sandy was pretty rough though.
Since Fay was "home grown", it didn't have much of a place to go to intensify like that fortunately.