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| Hurricane Irene |
New York became a city without one
of its trademarks- the nation’s largest subway system on Saturday as Hurricane
Irene charged northward and the city prepared to face powerhouse winds that
could drive a wall of water over the beaches in the Rockaways and between the skyscrapers
in Lower Manhattan. Hurricane Irene has claimed its first fatality, battering
the North Carolina coast with and rain wreaking havoc as it began a potentially
catastrophic run up the US east coast.
More than two million people were
told to flee and the New York city transit system was shutting down for the
first time because of a natural disaster.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said that
mass transit was unlike to be back in service on Monday. The mayor also said
that electricity could be knocked out in Lower Manhattan if consolidated Edison to shut off the power
pre-empt the problems that flooding could cause for its cables.
This is just the beginning the mayor
said at a morning news conference on Coney Island, where he and police
Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly inspected boats that emergency workers could use
in neighborhoods they could not travel through any other way. “This is a life
threatening storm.“ he added.
Obama has declared a state of
emergency for north Carolina, Virginia, New York, Connecticut and
Massachusetts. Hurricane warning were issued from North Carolina to New York
and father north to the islands of Nantucket nad Martha’s Vineyard off
Massachusetts. Evacuation orders covered at least 2.3 million people.
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