Monday, August 29, 2011

Hurricane Irene

Hurricane Irene failed to be the apocalyptic, big-city disaster scenario that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg had spelled out late last week, ( These words from the Associated Press.

but the storm still managed to leave 5 million homes and businesses without power and at least two dozen dead along the Eastern seaboard and massive flooding, road closures and damage. It did cause the worst flooding to the state of Vermont in over 100 years.

Rochester got some wind, but no rain, as we got only the very light edge of this storm after it had already hit land, some two days earlier.

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