LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News - 2 hours ago
Hurricane Irene is very likely to be the 10th billion-dollar disaster of 2011, breaking 2008's record for number of billion-dollar disasters a year, according to preliminary estimates. Between the summer floods, tornados, blizzards and drought, 2011 had already racked up nine natural disasters that cost at least $1 billion each, tying 2008's record. If damage estimates hold,
Irene would make 2011 a ...
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AFP via Yahoo! News - 1 minute ago
Hurricane Irene blasted ashore at Cape Lookout, North Carolina on Saturday, a weakened but still massive category one storm on track to batter major US cities. Sustained winds of 85 miles (140 kilometers) an hour lashed coastal areas as
Irene made landfall near the southern end of a chain of barrier islands that ring the North Carolina coast, the National
Hurricane Center said. Trees were uprooted, ...
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Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News - 4 hours ago
Hurricane Irene seemed to have lost some of its oomph as it approached the coast of North Carolina early Saturday morning, downgraded to a Category 1 storm with maximum sustained winds of 90 miles per hour.Moving along at 14 miles toward the north-northeast,
Irene was expected to make landfall near Atlantic Beach, North Carolina, between 8-10 a.m.But the storm is not without fury, and it already has ...
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