Irene begins destructive run as well as US Coast

People evacuated apartment building in Manhattan Battery Park on Saturday. New York City sorted by more than 300,000 people to evacuate that lives in flood-prone areas, as Hurricane Irene is forecast to reach the city. Irene blasted ashore in the vicinity of Cape Loo

Associated press. Morehead City, NC

Hurricane Irene their attack on the East coast by lashing point-the coast of North Carolina in the United States with winds as strong as 115 km/h and rapped shoreline houses with waves on Saturday open.

Further north prepared authorities a massive shutdown of trains and airports, with 2 million people out of the way ordered.

The center of the storm, which was approximately 500 miles wide, are passed over North Carolina's outer banks for its official landfall shortly after 7: 30 am EDT.

The hurricane tracks long reach the East coast of Myrtle Beach, SC, to just under Cape Cod. Tropical storm conditions smash Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, with the worst to come.

Saturday afternoon, said meteorologists Irene impact could be felt next North to Canada itself, after it weakens. Warnings extended from the US border on the South shore of Nova Scotia.

Irene weakened are easily, with sustained winds up to 85 mph about 100 a day earlier, making it a category 1, which was at least threatening on the scale. The National Hurricane Centre reported gusts of 115 km/h and storm surge waves up to seven feet.

The first death from the storm was reported in Nash County, NC, outside Raleigh, emergency officials said that a man with a large part was put down, which blew out of a tree.

Hurricane winds came close to Jacksonville, NC, at the first traffic light and wind whipped rain, the resort city struck the NAGs head. Beach covered high waves and the surf pushed as high as the back of some of the houses and the hotels fronting beach.

"There is nothing you can do now but wait." You can hear the wind, and it is scary,' Leon Reasor, who rode out the storm in the outer banks city Buxton said. "Things are against the House hammer." I hope it not worse, but I do know that it is. I hate hurricanes.'

At least two pillars on the outer banks were wiped out, the roof of a car dealership was torn, removed, and a hospital city, that run in Morehead on generators was. A total of nearly half a million people were without electricity on the East Coast.

The Red Cross had remain five shelters North Carolina opened until Saturday afternoon with more than 700 people registering.

Observed at the shelter on the campus kids yelled at Elizabeth City State University and played, while their parents develop the storm. LaToya Bryant saw their two- and four-year-old play, said, she told them they can go home, as soon as the storm was over.

"they want to play in the rain," said Bryant. "You can play in this rain."

In the Northeast, unusual tropical weather, strength the authorities made plans to bring the basic structures of the journey.

The New York City subway, made his last lines at noon the largest in the United States, and all five were area airports only accept a few last hours worth of flights.

The New York transit system has 5 million people during the week, weekend, less and has never been for weather was closed. Transit in New Jersey, Baltimore and Philadelphia announced also shut down.

Washington declared state of emergency. Building had evacuated days earlier been after an earthquake rattled the D.C. area.

New York City sorted 3,00,000 people, low-lying areas, including the battery to leave Park City close to the southern tip of Manhattan, beach Rockaways in Queens and coney Iceland in Brooklyn. But it how many people would get or how she would do it was not clear.

'How of Coney Iceland do I get?' said Abe Feinstein, 82, lives for half a century on the eighth floor of a building overlooking the seafront promenade. ' What will I do? Run with this Walker?'

Authorities in New York said she would not arrest people who decide to stay, but Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Friday warned: "If you don't follow this, may die."

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