Hurricane Irene

Hurricane Irene top news story or 2011. Hurricane Irene was one of the top ten most destructive and deadly hurricanes in the  United States since 1980.  It was not as powerful as many people has  predicted, the storm still killed at least 27 people along its path from the Caribbean to the eastern seaboard. Transportation was shut down all along the east coast, stranding residents and tourists in shelters, airports, and train stations. More than 5.8 million customers lost electricity, thousands of flights were canceled, flooding washed out roads and destroyed homes, and evacuation orders were issued for hundreds of thousands. Now my thoughts on Hurricane Irene is that it was very scary, my family had to come up to our house because they live right across the street from a beach.  Before they came they had to board up there house it wood and all this other stuff because they got told they needed to evacuate ASAP.Once they were done packing they drove and waited for many hours just to get to my house.After all this they went back to Jersey and there house was a little messed up but it wasn’t as bad as everyone thought. I also think that if this happens again it might be 10 times worse then it was before. But i hope it dont happen again because it made the neighborhood and many other places look horrible.