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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2028553/Hurricane-Irene-path-2011-Running-storm-Tens-thousands-flee-Hurricane-Irene-experts-predict-nightmare-scenario-Eastern-seaboard.html

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Wow Grace, what a Monster of a Hurricane!

Let us remember to pray for these people, especially the innocent ones!

Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy, Lord have mercy on your people! Amen!

Prayerfully,

Valerie

Amen Valerie
When the power goes out for an extended time it will be very hard on the people if they don't have a generator.
All their frozen and refrigerated foods will be lost.
The heat will be unbearable.
And those hooked up to medical equipment that uses electricity will be in bad shape.
I hope many are evacuating now.
Remember New Orleans destruction took place after the Hurricane had passed.

Quote from link:

Millions of energy customers are at risk of long-lasting power outages as strong winds and heavy rains threaten utility wires and poles.

Zoe,

It's a very sad situation indeed, many will have to suffer!

Here's news from what has occurred so far!

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Irene destroys 90% of homes on Bahamas island... now it's headed for US*

Officials in the US are scrambling to prepare for the storm as reports
begin drifting in of the damage done to a remote island in the Bahamas.

Hurricane Irene moves across the Caribbean
3:00PM BST 25 Aug 2011

Hurricane Irene has destroyed 90 per cent of the homes on one remote
Bahamas island - a brutal demonstration of the storm's power as it roars
towards America's densely populatd north-east coast.
On the remote Acklins Island, where Irene's eye passed over Wednesday,
nearly every home in the Lovely Bay settlement were destroyed, the
National Emergency Management Agency said. Several were literally blown
away.

The storm is raking slowly through the Atlantic archipelago on a track
that will see it barrel up the US East Coast over the next few days. It
is predicted to make landfall by Saturday somewhere near North Carolina,
where evacuations are already taking place.

On Thursday New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg revealed how seriously
American officials are taking the threat as he warned city residents in
low-lying areas to make for higher ground.
Irene is currently a Category 3 storm - the same strength as Hurricane
Katrina was when it destroyed much of New Orleans in 2005.

However forecasters are predicting that, once it moves past the Bahamas
into the warm waters off Florida, Irene will strengthen even more into a
lethal Category 4 storm.

As of noon GMT, Irene was packing winds of 115 miles per hour and was
located about 65 miles east northeast of Nassau. Once it becomes a
Category 4 its wind speed will have increased to 135 miles per hour.

Tourists have been fleeing from the storm's path through the Caribbean
in recent days as Irene gained in strength. Now America is bracing for
the storm's fury.

Officials in towns up and down the coast are scrambling to inspect
bridges, sending naval ships away, dusting off evacuation plans and
getting sandbags ready for potential floods.
They are also considering where and when to move people out of harm's way.

President Barack Obama, holidaying on Martha's Vineyard off the East
Coast, may also have to face evacuation depending on the storm's path.
The US Navy on Thursday ordered all its ships in the huge port of
Hampton Roads, Virginia, out to sea to weather the storm.

On Thursday the NHC issued an alert for the entire US East Coast.
Forecasters said they expected the eye to come close to Cape Hatteras,
North Carolina early Saturday, then continue north over water toward the
eastern edge of New York's Long Island on Sunday.

It's then predicted to chug up the East Coast, dumping rain from
Virginia to New York City before a much-weakened form reaches land in
Connecticut. Finally, it should peter out in Maine by Monday afternoon.

"This could be a very large storm, so we are taking it very seriously,"
said North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue.
Bill Read, director of NHC, said the track remains uncertain but that
"the exact center of the storm may stay close to the coast on Saturday
and perhaps become a big threat to New England and Long Island."
He said the storm had become "very well organized overnight" and was
growing in size.
"It is in the warmest water and a favorable environment so it could
actually get stronger," he told reporters in a conference call.

The NHC said that "interests in eastern North Carolina and the
mid-Atlantic states should monitor the progress of Irene."
Insurers kept a nervous watch in case Irene threatened wealthy enclaves
such as the Hamptons, an eastern Long Island playground for New York's rich.
Forecasters warned that even if the centre of the hurricane stays
offshore as it tracks up the mid-Atlantic coast, its wide, swirling
bands could lash cities including Washington and New York with winds and
rain, knock out power, trigger coastal storm surges and cause flooding.

"We're not paying attention just to the eye of the storm. We're looking
at how wide it is, how large it is," Virginia Emergency Management
Department spokeswoman Laura Southard said.
Craig Fugate, the head of the US Federal Emergency Management Agency,
said emergency personnel were preparing from impact from the Carolinas
to New England.
"This is going to be a big storm. Just because it hits one area doesn't
mean its not going to cause damage further up the coast," he said.
"The most important thing for people to do right now is to listen to and
follow the instructions of their local officials. If you are told to
evacuate, evacuate."

If Irene makes a direct landfall in the continental United States, it
will be the first hurricane to hit there since Ike pounded Texas in 2008.
Meanwhile, a new tropical depression formed far out over the Atlantic
early Thursday, with the National Hurricane Center saying it would
likely become a tropical storm later in the day.

http://groups.google.com/group/bible-prophecy-news/browse_thread/thread/32cbc1ddf1141a39#

Ending August already shows us these. Will September be worse?

I can't help thinking...

There is a map on the net showing all the Nuclear Plants.
The East Coast has many Nuclear plants along the shore.

Pray the storm surge does not effect those plants like Japan.

Please, those in the path of the storm..
Evacuate now while the roads are open.
Don't get caught in the traffic jam.

Food stores will be bare.
Gas may be cut off.
Looters will probably come like vultures
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Trust God and don't worry about your materialistic things. You can replace them. If you have insurance...Great.
If you don't.. Trust God... He will supply all your needs.

If your area floods.. There will be sewage and diseases. The stench will be so awful.. Especially if the temperature rises.

So, please evacuate.
If it moves into the ocean great.
It is better to be safe than sorry.
You can always go back home with no damage.. Be grateful.

But if the storm stays on course and skim the shores and your area.. Please leave now and go to a safe place.

Hurricane Irene New York: Top 5 Dangers of a Hurricane in the City

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/203439/20110824/hurricane-irene-new-york-city-storm-surge-subways-economy-evacuation.htm

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Even if Irene reaches New York as a weakened Category 1 or Category 2 hurricane, it could still wreak considerable havoc because the city is simply not prepared to handle such storms the way Florida or the Gulf Coast are. In a worst-case scenario, here are the top five threats New York City would face from a major hurricane.

1. Storm surge

The single biggest effect New York City would see from a major hurricane is the storm surge. This is the term for water pushed toward the shore by high winds, and it can rise many feet above sea level and inundate entire neighborhoods. In the New England Hurricane of 1938, the storm surge from the East River flooded three blocks of Manhattan, even though the center of the hurricane was many miles away, pummeling eastern Long Island. The Norfolk and Long Island Hurricane of 1821 made landfall in the city itself -- in Jamaica Bay, Queens -- and the 13-foot surge inundated more than a mile of Manhattan from Battery Park to Canal Street.

Storm surges can be catastrophic even in the best-protected cities -- just look at New Orleans when the levees failed. While a Katrina-like scenario is unlikely in New York, a smaller surge could still be deadly because of the structure of New York's waterways. New York Harbor is narrow, which means that water rushing northward from the storm surge, with nowhere to go, would build up very high -- as high as 30 feet, or the third floor of some buildings, according to past warnings from the city's Office of Emergency Management. According to an evacuation map posted on the city's official Web site, aside from Lower Manhattan, many low-lying parts of the other four boroughs would also be at risk, including LaGuardia Airport and J.F.K. Airport, which are located right by Flushing Bay and Jamaica Bay, respectively. All of this would be compounded if the storm surge happened at high tide.

2. Debris everywhere

Many of the effects of high winds on infrastructure are obvious: downed trees and other debris cluttering the streets, downed power lines cutting electricity to buildings and live wires creating hazards for pedestrians. But in a city like New York, hurricane-force winds could break windows en masse, "especially in the taller buildings that would bear the brunt of powerful gusts that occur at higher elevations," The Wall Street Journal reported in 2010. In a worst-case scenario, this could become a scene out of an apocalyptic movie, in which "the canyons of Manhattan could magnify the winds and would be a deadly place for anyone caught beneath the raining glass." And that's not even considering the billions of dollars it would take to clean up the city afterward, and the long-term economic impact of those costs.

3. Goodbye, subways

Every New Yorker has seen how messy subway stations get in heavy rain: dirty puddles form on the platforms, water streams from openings in the ceiling onto the tracks, and trains are frequently delayed. Now imagine even heavier rain, plus a storm surge that sent water from the rivers and harbors crashing into the stations through the stairwells, ceilings and tunnels. It would not even take a worst-case scenario to bring the entire New York City public transportation system to a standstill. In the short term, this would eliminate any chance of last-minute evacuations; in the long term, it could extend the economic damage of a hurricane even beyond when office buildings reopened. If the subways were flooded with salt water rather than just rainwater, the salt "would corrode the switches and cripple the system for months or years, and disable much of the communications infrastructure in Lower Manhattan," The Wall Street Journal reported in 2010 based on an interview with Nicholas Coch, a coastal geology professor at Queens College.

4. Economic paralysis

The area of New York most likely to be affected by a storm surge is also the area where the bulk of the city's economic activity is centered. The Financial District, for example, could be inundated by storm surges from the East River, the Hudson River and the New York Harbor alike. The 1938 hurricane flooded all of Lower Manhattan south of Canal Street, but the damage was limited by the fact that the area was not highly built up at the time. Today, not only is it full of people who could be killed by a storm surge, but it is also the epicenter of the city, national, and international financial systems.

Residents don't necessarily understand "how many days and weeks after a hurricane that their lives will be completely changed," Scott Mandia, a physical sciences professor at Suffolk County Community College on Long Island, told National Geographic News in 2006. "People who live away from the water think a hurricane will mean one day away from work, then back to normal. There will be an economic shutdown for a few weeks, if not a month." He was referring to the impact of a hurricane on Long Island, but the impact on the Financial District would be even worse. A big storm surge could paralyze that part of the city for weeks, depending on how severe the flooding was, how quickly the water receded and how much infrastructural damage it left behind, and the consequences of that would be far greater than just lost wages.

5. Difficult to evacuate

If New York remains in Hurricane Irene's path, officials would likely order the evacuation of the most vulnerable areas -- that is, those most likely to be hit by the storm surge. But evacuations are difficult to carry out under the best of circumstances, both because many people are reluctant to leave their homes and because of traffic gridlock as thousands of people try to get out at once, and New York is far from the best of circumstances. The first problem is the sheer size of its population: evacuating more than eight million people on short notice is an impossible task. The second is the location: on an island, escape routes are inherently limited. Only so many vehicles can cross Manhattan's bridges and tunnels at once, and in the event of a hurricane, one thing New York will not have is time.

Hurricanes can change course very quickly, and even a slight shift can threaten areas far from the projected path. Accurate predictions become even more difficult once a hurricane moves north of the Carolinas, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, because the storms begin to move faster and wind patterns can easily redirect them. The New England Hurricane of 1938 struck with just four hours' notice, and hundreds of people were killed. The NOAA Web site notes that "the overwhelming majority" of lethal hurricanes "occurred before hurricane prediction reached levels necessary to adequately serve the public." Of course, meteorologists' predictive capabilities have increased tremendously over the years, but in the Northeast, the problem remains serious because of the combination of less reliable predictions and more time required for a successful evacuation.

In other words, in order to evacuate New York's extremely dense population through a limited bridge and tunnel system, the evacuation would have to begin significantly earlier than it would in the Southeast or along the Gulf Coast, where populations are less dense and escape routes more plentiful. But because of the difficulties in predicting when and where hurricanes will strike in the Northeast, New York most likely would not be able to begin an evacuation until later than the Southeast or Gulf Coast could. Even worse, because winds usually pick up well before the center of a hurricane hits, time to evacuate could be even more severely limited.

I wonder how this storm will affect the U.N.

Anyone here living near the danger zones?

Here is the site for the nuclear plant map and information
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http://www.radiationnetwork.com/

This is the latest video on the hurricane I can find.



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