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My Profile Log Out. Join Discussion. Add Your Comment. But overall, the mood is one of relief mixed with a shrug of the shoulders that the storm really was not a big deal. The storm was downgraded from category 1 hurricane to tropical storm as it made landfall at Coney Island, New York at about 9.
The overnight toll grew when a woman was found dead in her submerged car in New Jersey, and a man was killed by a fire started by downed power lines in Connecticut. The Wall Street district was spared floods and power cuts after the storm surge crested shortly after 8am and has since fallen.
But the National Hurricane Centre warns that "extremely dangerous" surges of ft will continue to threaten the north-east coast in the Long Island Sound, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts, as the storms runs north. Oyster Creek power plant in New Jersey closed down on schedule on Saturday afternoon as a precautionary measure, but a reactor in Calvert Cliffs, Maryland was taken off-line after wind-borne debris caused damage to a transformer. Bridges and tunnels in New York City reopened, but some major urban routes are closed by flooding.
Mayor Bloomberg has said that mass transit may not be fully running until late in the day Monday: "Monday morning is going to be a mess. There has just been another Fema briefing — here are the main points.
Homeland security secretary Janet Napolitano said that despite the downgrading of Irene to a tropical storm, it posed "no less of a threat to communities" as it tracks up towards New England. Our number one message for individuals and families up and down the eastern seaboard is that we are not out of the woods yet. Irene remains a large and potentially dangerous storm.
She had this warning to people in those areas: "If you are in any of those communities, please stay inside and away from the shoreline. Director of the National Hurricane Center Bill Read warned of major flooding risks to river systems in northern New England for later today. We all know they are not to be believed.
That's what's dangerous. There's evidence of this already: I've just been out on the streets interviewing New Yorkers as the storm subsides. Watch this video in the context of what Jarvis has just said.
Through North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and New Jersey, there is significant flooding, damage to buildings, downed trees and power lines. Christie, who faces what now seems to be a far larger challenge in the aftermath of Irene, says that the focus of concern has now moved from the coastal threat posed by the storm to the inland flooding resulting from up to a foot of rainfall.
Parts of the highway network are affected by flooding, with diversions in effect. New Jersey Transit is undergoing inspections, and then a "service plan for Monday" will be drawn up, the governor said.
But the state faces "significant inland flooding — in some cases, at record levels," he said. Three dams are under observation because of a possible threat of overflow or breach. The governor also reported that some , people in New Jersey do not have electricity: "We think that number will increase because of 45mph winds still bringing lines down," he said.
New York-area airports remain closed as Irene passed over the nation's busiest air-traffic region. The longer that Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark, New Jersey, airports remain shut, the worse it will be as travel delays ripple across the country.
Federal officials said Sunday they didn't know when the airports would reopen. Airlines have already canceled thousands of flights for Sunday, but it was unclear how much havoc the storm would cause for travelers on Monday.
My colleague Dominic Rushe reports that news anchors struggled to justify the hype. On Sunday they were fighting the elements in New York City, their wind tunnel faces mouthing silently into broken microphones. A hurricane in New York! Every weatherperson's dream come true. They were loving it. Frankly they all looked a little high. CNN had the hottest hosts. The dashing Anderson Cooper hunkered down in some corner of the West Village co-ordinated his photogenic team, switching from Soledad O'Brien, stalking the Meatpacking District in fashion-forward thigh-high wellies, black leggings and a red kagool, and the rest of glamorous Team Irene dotted around the east coast.
But no matter who was covering the story, they all faced the same problem: Irene was a bit slow. Crawling towards New York at 14mph she may not have run out of steam but boy did we. Cars stuck in big puddles, gusty winds, the Hudson Rover inching up to lap to nether regions of Battery Park, it wasn't nearly as telegenic as the hosts. And as high tide passed, Irene was downgraded to become merely a tropical storm. By Sunday morning NY1 TV station was reduced to warning us about the dangers of "slipping and falling.
Just because it's a puddle doesn't mean there isn't something else going on underneath it. And here's the winner of "most ridiculous piece to camera" — a local Fox reporter delivering a live standup, covered in what turned out to be raw sewage.
An appropriate metaphor, perhaps? He says 65, people are without power in New York, but the "worst is over". He warns people to stay away from surging rivers. In Brooklyn, the eastbound Belt Parkway is flooding due to the collapse of a retaining wall. The Bronx River is moving very fast, and people should stay away from flooded areas and this river in particular.
Some trees have been uprooted in NYC. The evacuation orders will be lifted by 3pm, he says. That's not good — the city will be gridlocked. In the City Hall briefing, he said all the tracks need to be inspected, which will take a great deal of time. The first transit mode to be restored will be the buses. But there's still no timescale for that. He said he had no regrets. We were unwilling to risk the life of a single New Yorker.
The bottom line is that I would make the same decisions again, without hesitation. We can't just, when a hurricane is coming, get out of the way and hope for the best. The major issue up here in Boston — or at least in our neighbourhood of Dorchester — seems to be wind gusts. Indoors, we barely realize that anything is happening — and even standing on the front porch the weather doesn't seem much more dramatic than your basic heavy rainstorm. A neighbour just back from a trip down to the harbourside rather him than me , says there's a lot of spray and piercingly blowing sand — but he came back in one excited piece, feeling, he said, soaked but well exfoliated.
Of the people I spoke to this morning down in Hudson River Park and around Tribeca, opinion was split, marginally in his favour, I'd say. Here's a list of where you can get brunch. Here's a state-by-state guide to how it has affected the eastern US.
One person killed by a fire in Prospect, with thousands evacuated along the shoreline. Officials are warneing of possible flooding as a storm surge of 4 to 8 feet coincided with an unusually high tide in Long Island Sound. In a news conference, the governor, Dannel Malloy urged "all Connecticut citizens and all public officials to take this event as seriously as any event that we have ever prepared for.
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