Sunday, August 28, 2011

Irene floods northeast, Manhattan spared worst (Reuters)

Irene floods northeast, Manhattan spared worst (Reuters)

Irene floods northeast, Manhattan spared worst (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Aug 2011 07:01 PM PDT

Sixth Avenue stands virtually deserted in Manhattan as Hurricane Irene closed in on the New York City area August 28, 2011. REUTERS/Mike SegarReuters - Hurricane Irene swept through Manhattan on Sunday but reserved the worst of its fury for towns and suburbs up and down the northeastern United States where driving rain and flood tides inundated homes and cut power to millions.

Heat-strapped Texas expects another power record (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Aug 2011 05:44 PM PDT

Reuters - The Texas power grid operator said electric usage this week could break the all-time peak seen earlier this month and urged consumers to reduce power use to avoid rolling outages.

Federal government to help reimburse states for Irene damage (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Aug 2011 02:05 PM PDT

A pedestrian walks through a flooded street at Hoboken, New Jersey August 28, 2011. REUTERS/Eduardo MunozReuters - Hurricane Irene could cost U.S. state and local governments billions of dollars in damages, but funds from the federal government might ultimately cover much of this expense.

What ESPN's 'White Michael Vick' Story Got Wrong (Time.com)

Posted: 28 Aug 2011 12:40 AM PDT

Time.com - If the point of a good magazine story is to get people talking, consider a piece in the new issue of ESPN The Magazine, "What if Michael Vick Were White?," a grand success

Drive an Escalade? Look Out for Car Thieves (Time.com)

Posted: 28 Aug 2011 12:40 AM PDT

Time.com - Are you gripping the steering wheel of a Cadillac Escalade? Cruisin' with the Bose sound system, subwoofers, climate control mechanism and chrome grille? If so, then grip it tightly because your ride is the nation's biggest target for auto thefts

Soldier kills four, found dead in Pennsylvania (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Aug 2011 07:02 PM PDT

Reuters - Pennsylvania authorities hunting for a U.S. soldier accused of killing four people and opening fire on police officers have found the man's body after he apparently took his own life, police said on Sunday.

After Irene: Authorities readying to gauge damage (AP)

Posted: 28 Aug 2011 11:54 AM PDT

The Arr-Mac water rescue team from Wayne County maneuvers around a beached boat in the middle of Hwy. 304 Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011 in Mesic, N.C. Hurricane Irene knocked out power and piers in North Carolina, clobbered Virginia with wind and churned up the coast Saturday to confront cities more accustomed to snowstorms than tropical storms. New York City emptied its streets and subways and waited with an eerie quiet. (AP Photo/The News & Observer, Chris Seward)AP - Hurricane Irene fell short of the doomsday predictions of record-breaking storm surges in North Carolina and Virginia. But a slow-crawling storm that spread out hundreds of miles was still hurling heavy rain and high winds at a wide swath of the East Coast a day after its first U.S. landfall, vexing official attempts to gauge the full damage toll on the region.

6 years after Katrina, Lower 9th Ward still bleak (AP)

Posted: 28 Aug 2011 08:33 AM PDT

A destroyed home is seen along Flood St. in New Orleans, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2011. The Lower 9th Ward, the New Orleans neighborhood hit the hardest six years ago when Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast, is a sad place where the grasses grow taller than people and street after street is scarred by empty decaying houses, the lives that once played out inside their walls hardly imaginable now. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - In New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward, the grasses grow taller than people and street after street is scarred by empty decaying houses, the lives that once played out inside their walls hardly imaginable now.

Irene could leave many without power for weeks (AP)

Posted: 28 Aug 2011 05:45 PM PDT

A utility worker makes repairs on lines following the effects of Hurricane Irene in Nags Head, N.C., Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. Power is returning for hundreds of thousands of people after Hurricane Irene passed through coastal states in the South. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)AP - It could take weeks to restore power to millions of people left in the dark by Tropical Storm Irene.

Flood worries and some relief in Irene's wake (AP)

Posted: 28 Aug 2011 06:16 PM PDT

A New York City taxi is stranded in deep water on Manhattan’s West Side as Tropical Storm Irene passes through the city, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011 in New York. Although downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm, Irene’s torrential rain couple with high winds and tides worked in concert to flood parts of the city. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan)AP - Stripped of hurricane rank, Tropical Storm Irene spent the last of its fury Sunday, leaving treacherous flooding and millions without power — but an unfazed New York and relief that it was nothing like the nightmare authorities feared.

New York-bound storm draws out media's big guns (AP)

Posted: 28 Aug 2011 07:06 PM PDT

NBC reporter Peter Alexander attempts to broadcast from the windswept Coney Island boardwalk in New York as Hurricane Irene became intensified Sunday, Aug. 28 2011 in Coney Island section of New York. Barely a hurricane but massive and packed with rain, Irene lumbered onto the New Jersey shore Sunday morning on its way toward pummeling New York, which turned eerily quiet as the city hunkered down. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)AP - The unusual event of a hurricane aimed squarely at the nation's most populous city and media headquarters in New York put television networks on high alert Sunday.

FEMA chief: Stay at home in Irene's wake (AP)

Posted: 28 Aug 2011 06:54 AM PDT

President Barack Obama listens to an update on the status of Hurricane Irene at Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) headquarters in Washington Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011, by FEMA director Craig Fugate, right. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - The head of the nation's emergency response agency says people shouldn't underestimate the danger once Hurricane Irene passes.

Irene forecasts on track; not up to speed on wind (AP)

Posted: 28 Aug 2011 01:39 PM PDT

Waves generated by Tropical Storm Irene pummel the coast in Westbrook, Conn., Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Fred Beckham)AP - Hurricane Irene was no mystery to forecasters. They knew where it was going. But what it would do when it got there was another matter.

Va. soldier sought in 4 deaths found dead in Pa. (AP)

Posted: 28 Aug 2011 06:44 PM PDT

In this undated photo provided by the Warwick Township Police Department, Leonard John Egland is seen. Egland, a soldier who recently returned from war service, fired at officers in suburban Philadelphia as he was sought in the Virginia deaths of his ex-wife, her boyfriend and the boyfriend's young son, authorities said. The soldier's former mother-in-law was also killed, and he remains at large. Residents of Warwick Township were asked to stay in their homes and lock doors and cars as police hunted for Egland, 37, of Fort Lee, Va., who evaded authorities as Hurricane Irene lashed the area. (AP Photo/Warwick Township Police Department)AP - An Army officer suspected of killing four people in Pennsylvania and Virginia was found dead in a wooded area Sunday after a manhunt during Tropical Storm Irene's winds and drenching rains paralyzed residents in the Philadelphia suburb.

Irene cleanup could take days along East Coast (AP)

Posted: 28 Aug 2011 04:07 PM PDT

A flooded road is seen in Hatteras Island, N.C., Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011after Hurricane Irene swept through the area Saturday cutting the roadway in five locations. Irene caused more than 4.5 million homes and businesses along the East Coast to reportedly lose power over the weekend, and at least 11 deaths were blamed on the storm. (AP Photo/Jim R. Bounds)AP - With Irene gone, cleanup crews began pumping water out of soggy subway tunnels, fixing traffic lights in the nation's capital and clearing debris from hundreds of roads as the East Coast readied for the workweek. While early indications were that the damage was not as bad as feared, it will be days before things get back to normal in many places.

Ind. vouchers prompt thousands to change schools (AP)

Posted: 28 Aug 2011 11:11 AM PDT

In this Aug. 17, 2011 photo, students enter Our Lady of Hungary Catholic School for the first day of school, in South Bend, Ind. Indiana’s new voucher program that provides state-funded scholarships to private schools, the nation’s broadest, is proving to be a boon for Roman Catholic schools that nationwide have been struggling against dwindling enrollment numbers for years. (AP Photo/Joe Raymond)AP - Weeks after Indiana began the nation's broadest school voucher program, thousands of students have transferred from public to private schools, causing a spike in enrollment at some Catholic institutions that were only recently on the brink of closing for lack of pupils.

Town at epicenter of quake exhales as Irene passes (AP)

Posted: 28 Aug 2011 09:47 AM PDT

In this Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011 photo, a car drives past a building damaged in this week's earthquake in Mineral, Va. Some feared Hurricane Irene would finish what Tuesday's temblor started, but the Virginia town got only the storm's outermost bands. (AP Photo/Allen Breed)AP - Staring out at her shell-shocked congregation Sunday, the Rev. Marian Windel felt the need to reassure her flock that God was not "mad at us in any way."

A look at Irene's wake — and what's ahead (AP)

Posted: 28 Aug 2011 11:16 AM PDT

Two residents walk on their road which was not passable after the effects of Hurricane Irene dropped trees in their neighborhood in Massapequa, N.Y., on Long Island, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)AP - The latest on what's happening with Hurricane Irene — in its wake and in its path as it moves north along the Eastern Seaboard:

State-by-state look at Irene dangers, damage (AP)

Posted: 28 Aug 2011 04:45 PM PDT

AP - Irene, the hurricane that weakened to a tropical storm, thrashed the East Coast, knocking out power to millions of homes and businesses, destroying piers and killing at least 21 people. Here's a state-by-state glance on how it's affected states along the Eastern seaboard:
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