Post by amoeba15 on Aug 26, 2011 15:33:01 GMT -5
From a 5.8 earthquake and at least 5 aftershocks measuring 2.2 -4.5, now comes a HUGE Hurricane which is expected to serve up a HUGE can of whoop arse.
U.S. Northeast Braces for Worst Hurricane Threat Since 1985
New York City began evacuating the sick and elderly from low-lying areas as Hurricane Irene threatened to inflict the worst destruction in the Northeast since Hurricane Gloria in 1985.
New York, New Jersey and Delaware prepared for the possibility of mass evacuations. The storm may affect more than 65 million people from North Carolina to Maine, or 1 in 5 Americans, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg ordered hospital patients and people in nursing homes and senior housing in coastal areas moved to higher ground. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the busiest U.S. transit system, said bus and subway service may be suspended tomorrow as the storm nears.
“This is the day that people ought to be buying food, water and batteries,” Delaware Governor Jack Markell said yesterday on Bloomberg Television’s “InBusiness With Margaret Brennan.”
Markell declared a state of emergency, as did Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy, Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue and Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell. The declarations free up state resources to be spent on storm-related expenses.
President Barack Obama signed a federal emergency declaration for North Carolina, authorizing the Homeland Security Department and Federal Emergency Management Agency to coordinate disaster response and mobilize resources.
In Baltimore, about a dozen people helped fill sandbags on the brick-lined waterfront of Fells Point. Anne Gummerson said her basement flooded six-feet (1.8-meters) deep when Hurricane Isabelle blew through Chesapeake Bay in 2003. This time, she’s rented a pump and a generator, and joined those shoveling sand.
“I am a little more afraid than last time,” she said. “We’ll just have to keep doing what we’re doing.”
Irene, the strongest Atlantic storm to threaten the U.S. since 2005, battered the Bahamas yesterday with winds of 115 miles (185 kilometers) an hour on a course expected to take it near North Carolina tomorrow, according to the National Hurricane Center.
More than 25 million workers at 1.7 million businesses in 310 counties are in the storm’s path into New England, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-25/northeast-u-s-prepares-for-biggest-hurricane-threat-since-gloria-in-1985.html
U.S. Northeast Braces for Worst Hurricane Threat Since 1985
New York City began evacuating the sick and elderly from low-lying areas as Hurricane Irene threatened to inflict the worst destruction in the Northeast since Hurricane Gloria in 1985.
New York, New Jersey and Delaware prepared for the possibility of mass evacuations. The storm may affect more than 65 million people from North Carolina to Maine, or 1 in 5 Americans, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg ordered hospital patients and people in nursing homes and senior housing in coastal areas moved to higher ground. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the busiest U.S. transit system, said bus and subway service may be suspended tomorrow as the storm nears.
“This is the day that people ought to be buying food, water and batteries,” Delaware Governor Jack Markell said yesterday on Bloomberg Television’s “InBusiness With Margaret Brennan.”
Markell declared a state of emergency, as did Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy, Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue and Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell. The declarations free up state resources to be spent on storm-related expenses.
President Barack Obama signed a federal emergency declaration for North Carolina, authorizing the Homeland Security Department and Federal Emergency Management Agency to coordinate disaster response and mobilize resources.
In Baltimore, about a dozen people helped fill sandbags on the brick-lined waterfront of Fells Point. Anne Gummerson said her basement flooded six-feet (1.8-meters) deep when Hurricane Isabelle blew through Chesapeake Bay in 2003. This time, she’s rented a pump and a generator, and joined those shoveling sand.
“I am a little more afraid than last time,” she said. “We’ll just have to keep doing what we’re doing.”
Irene, the strongest Atlantic storm to threaten the U.S. since 2005, battered the Bahamas yesterday with winds of 115 miles (185 kilometers) an hour on a course expected to take it near North Carolina tomorrow, according to the National Hurricane Center.
More than 25 million workers at 1.7 million businesses in 310 counties are in the storm’s path into New England, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-25/northeast-u-s-prepares-for-biggest-hurricane-threat-since-gloria-in-1985.html
