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Irene charges into New England; New York escapes worst

World Aug. 29, 2011 - 08:13AM JST ( 5 )

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smithinjapanAug. 29, 2011 - 10:16AM JST

Well, no one can truly state that what they did to shut down NYC was wrong, given the death and devastation this storm has caused. I'm glad NYC escaped the worst of it, despite some flooding, and I feel sorry for those areas ravaged. I hope that, aside from those already killed, everyone is keeping safe as best as they can.
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JapanGalAug. 29, 2011 - 12:42PM JST

I wonder how all the nuclear plants it passed by are doing.
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smithinjapanAug. 29, 2011 - 01:39PM JST

JapanGal: "I wonder how all the nuclear plants it passed by are doing."

Probably quite fine. A strong wind and heavy rain are not the same thing as how an earthquake and tsunami combine with shortcuts in safety to form what happened in Fukushima.
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globalwatcherAug. 29, 2011 - 10:21PM JST

Thank god, my Eileen, grand kids and IRENE left over the weekend.
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lostrune2Aug. 30, 2011 - 05:40AM JST

NYC metro area was spared the worst, and they were also well-prepared, so there's hardly any news out of it, and that's the way it should be. There was raining for hours and hours even before the large slow-moving hurricane even got close, saturating the ground several times over, combined with high tides. But even so, the rain fortunately was not so heavy, and the wind, while strong, the strongest gusts were not the sustained kind. So there was flooding but not as heavy, and wind damage was pretty much limited to trees and wire posts.

After the eye finally passed over with its strongest gusts yet, the weather pretty much cleared up save for some leftover backside wind, so residents could almost immediately begin the cleanup process. Some people lost electricity; others had spotty TV and internet; but the cellphone networks stayed intact, so people were able to maintain contact and follow the events by mobile web. All in all, it wasn't that bad.

Unfortunately, it was New England that suffered the worse of it. The heavier rains fell on New England, where hurricane eyes go even rarer than NYC, so they were less able to cope with it. Yet still, people were back to work the next day.