NEW YORK CITY: TORNADO WARNING
Also now: 3.1 million homes and businesses are without power NEW YORK CITY: TORNADO WARNING
Day: August 28, 2011
Another Reuters image (this photographer had to be having fun watching).. of the revelers, seemingly grown adults, playing water slide on the streets of New York City. Looks fun. And it looks like the Irish pubs that stayed open last night in the city had customers..
The city that never sleeps.. Reuters photog Brendan McDermid captures an image of really happy and very wet revellers in Times Square as Irene struck..
The moment it occurred: A hurricane passes directly over New York City
HUDSON RIVER IS OVERFLOWING..
..portions of New York City beginning to get flooded.. As said: The storm surge was the true worry of this storm.. And now events are showing why it was a valid concern.. The hurricane, by the way, is right over New York City now .. it’s going to race as of now, though, caught up … Read moreHUDSON RIVER IS OVERFLOWING..
Winds are getting intense.. Strong East wind..
MSNBC RIGHT NOW ON LONG BEACH
Tidal flooding is beginning.. water is rushing the beach .. Al Roker is reporting that streets are flooding and cars are being inundated with water from the ocean .
Winds right now: 75 MPH according to the latest.. Gusts stronger
…I still think it’s lost the power it had. It started last night… And now we will just with for the latest from the hurricane hunters
A little on Long Beach Island.. by God good luck there inothernews: Irene is pummelling the sand berms at Long Beach on Long Island, and while Channel 7’s NJ Burkett was reporting, the storm surge knocked a two-story lifeguard building off its pilings and into the boardwalk.