Guardian: Images from Irene (dial up warning)

[Ruby the Liberal]

Denise Robinson clears out her destroyed beach home in Virginia Beach



A man walks across 42nd Street and Times Square in New York as Hurricane Irene hits the city



The New York skyline is enveloped in dark clouds as Hurricane Irene approaches



A police car passes the spot where an 11-year-old boy died when a large tree felled by winds from Hurricane Irene collapsed on to his apartment building in Newport News, Virginia



The Albemarle Sound floods Millers Restaurant in Nags Head, North Carolina

ALL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2011/aug/28/hurricane-irene-approaches-new-york

[Ruby the Liberal]

1. More photos of the flash flooding in the Catskills (!!)

http://www.weather.com/weather/hurricanecentral/article/disaster-in-the-catskills-hurricane-irene_2011-08-28

[Oceansaway]

2. thanks...n/t

[Waiting For Everyman]

3. Thanks, Ruby

It took me a while to find this thread. The pics and videos tell the story - and they're expectional just as images, to boot.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Sorry for repeating this

but it was hyped (tm)

:sarcasm: