Cities largely spared; devastating floods in upstate New York and Vermont
The Climate Desk is live-blogging the hurricane. Check back here for the latest information, pics and links from around the web, and be sure to copy your photos and videos to us on Twitter @theclimatedesk.
- [13:30 EST Weds.] Irene may be gone, but she's not forgotten: residents of upstate New York are still dealing with devastating flood damage:
Storm Leaves Catskill Towns Little but DebrisNathaniel Brooks for The New York Times PRATTSVILLE, N.Y. - It chewed up Moore's Trailer Park, sweeping up homes and discarding them in devastating piles of wood, plastic, orphaned automobile wheels and broken children's toys. It tore apart painstakingly maintained Victorians, their pastel-colored and gingerbread-style exteriors cracked and caved-in, their front lawns, porches and sidewalks replaced by muddy lagoons.[04:00 EST Monday]
See ya Irene. Our Climate Desk partners at The Atlantic earlier provided this neat summary of where she's been.
Exit Irene: Storm Moves On, Millions Without PowerHurricane Irene arrived in earnest early Sunday, pummeling the New Jersey coast and driving storm surges up the rivers and along the coast from New York City up to Massachusetts. The storm weakened slightly before making its second landfall in New Jersey early Sunday, and as wind-speeds dropped it was downgraded from a Category 1 hurricane to a tropical storm before hitting New York.[4:00 EST Monday]
Counting the costs, at the LA Times. Broadway plays a starring role in the economic impact of Irene.
Storm's economic damage less than fearedIrene shut down Broadway, took a bite out of Hollywood's box office, closed casinos in New Jersey and canceled thousands of East Coast flights. But the economic fallout had been predicted to be far worse.[11:14 EST Sunday]
Horrible pictures continue to emerge from the flooding in VT. This posted by The Wilmington, which describes itself as an inn located in the mountains near Mount Snow Ski Resort and along the Deerfield River.
And this appears to be the same road, from a different user (and a different angle) in the aftermath, Wilmington VT:
- [19:53 EST Sunday]Evidence from earlier in the day that this hurricane is all about flooding. This from the Catskills in upstate NY.
- Spruce Street in Tannersville is now a raging river. #Catskills #Irene http://twitpic.com/6cn4ae
- And New Yorkers with chainsaws begin to clean the streets:
[19:30 EST Sunday]
The AP lists the Hurricane's reported causalities across eight states.Hurricane Irene leads to at least 20 deaths - Breaking News - TheSunNews.com
RICHMOND, Va. -- Hurricane Irene had led to the deaths of at least 20 people in eight states as of Sunday evening: - In Prospect, one person was killed in a fire that Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said was apparently caused by wires knocked down by the storm.[19:24 EST Sunday]
Climate Desk buddy The Atlantic asks: did we over-react to Irene?And another CD partner Slate takes a closer look at Rocky Mount NC.
Hurricane Irene and American Self-CenterednessAnne-Marie Slaughter - Anne-Marie Slaughter is the Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. She was previously the director of policy planning for the U.S. State Department and dean of Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
Hurricane Irene: The mood at shelters in North Carolina.Sign up for Slate's daily newsletter. ROCKY MOUNT, N.C.- Like many trailer parks around here, the King's Way in Little Easonburg sits in a serious flood zone. For this reason, neighbors Mae Powell, Marcella Smith, and Reathella Richardson find themselves gathered around a book of word-search puzzles at Englewood Baptist Church, waxing rhapsodic about the food.[16:12 EST Sunday]
NYC is restoring some bus service, says the MTA. Looks like the Metro-North railroad is still a giant mess, though, with "major flooding" and even a mudslide!
[15:40 EST Sunday]
Here's what the storm looked like about an hour ago. Moving over New England:
