Irene rakes up East Coast, shuts down New York - Yahoo! News: " Hurricane Irene charged up the U.S. eastern seaboard on Saturday as a weakening but dangerous storm that shut down New York City and threatened to inflict massive blackouts and flooding.
From the Carolinas to Maine, tens of millions of people were in the path of the giant 830 km wide storm that dumped more than 17 inches of rain on parts of coastal North Carolina after howling ashore at daybreak.
New York City ordered unprecedented evacuations and shut down its airports and subways, part of a huge public transit system that moves 8.5 million people a day on weekdays. Commuters were left to flag down yellow taxis and livery cabs that were patrolling largely deserted streets."
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