A road broken in five places: ”Officials survey the damage to Route 12 on Hatteras Island, N.C., on Aug. 28. Hurricane Irene swept through the area Saturday cutting the roadway in five locations. Irene caused more than 4.5 million homes and businesses along the East Coast to reportedly lose power over the weekend, and at least 11 deaths were blamed on the storm.” Roughly 2,500 people are stuck on Hatteras Island as a result of this. (thanks kateoplis)
Flooding in Bennington, VT sends car down rushing river, August 28, 2011. (by YouTube user mobilady)
As the East Coast braces for Hurricane Irene, New York City prepares to shut down the biggest public transportation system on the continent - after noon today, officials have said that all public transportation in the city will be offline.
Keeping an eye on Irene using the Living Earth HD app…
Hurricane Irene path: Google just threw up a pretty useful hurricane-tracker tool to follow Irene. (Here’s the article they wrote about the tool, which lets you sort between a number of different metrics.) The giant cloud imagery really puts the hurricane in sharp contrast. Currently engulfed by the storm? North Carolina. Virginia Beach is next. DC and Baltimore will miss the worst of it (though us DC folks got nailed by a heavy ten-minute storm about three hours ago). Philly, NJ and NYC are directly in the path, particularly Long Island.
A few joggers brave the wet weather prior to Hurricane Irene on the Belt Parkway Promenade, near the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. Photo taken from 91st street, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.
