Having cut a path of destruction that stretched from the Outer Banks of North Carolina to the eastern tip of Long Island in a 24-hour period that killed at least nine people in five states and caused an unprecedented shutdown of the transit systems in Washington, Philadelphia and New York, a weakened but still ferocious Hurricane Irene, now downgraded to a tropical storm, set its sights on a battened-down New England late Sunday morning.
Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/hurricane-irene-leaves-us-battered
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/hindu-new-delhi
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/united-states-america-us
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/hurricanes
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/cyclones
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/floods
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/storms
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/washington
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/natural-disasters