Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
The name Irene has been used for the following tropical cyclones in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Read More at Wikipedia ›June Tierney and Kellie Burke never envisioned island living in the Vermont woods, but Tropical Storm Irene had other ideas.
Their home, a two-story, natural-sided saltbox, was a rural idyll on a wooded 10-acre lot off a dirt road, with a stairway leading from their backyard down a steep bank to Gilead Brook, a small stream.When Irene blew through Vermont on Aug. 28, the brook became a raging torrent. After the storm, the main part of it had moved around to the other side of the house, leaving a smaller stream still flowing along its old bed.Now Tierney, a 47-year-old lawyer who works for the state board that regulates utilities, and Burke, 48-year-old high school librarian, have to cross a ford — a new, narrow road that dips into the old stream and has no guardrails — to get home, and face an uncertain future. They wonder if they should cut their losses and move.Their biggest worry is whether the next time the river runs wild, it will take the house with it."If we stay we're facing a h...Despite Tropical Storm Irene's weakened punch, President Obama urged those in its path to stay vigilant and warned that the storm's impact would continue to be felt ...
A shooting a few blocks off the route of the annual West Indian Day Parade, scarred by violence at least twice in the last several years, left two police officers wo...
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. -- Emergency management officials in Pennsylvania on Saturday were considering lifting an evacuation order that affected some 100,000 people after ...
Stripped of hurricane rank, Tropical Storm Irene spent the last of its fury Sunday, leaving treacherous flooding and millions without power — but an unfazed New York...
Airlines planned to resume flights in and out of East Coast airports Monday after they were shut down over the weekend by Tropical Storm Irene.The quicker airlines g...
An Army officer suspected of killing four people in Pennsylvania and Virginia was found dead in a wooded area Sunday after a manhunt during Tropical Storm Irene's wi...
Insurers have paid out claims totaling almost $25 billion in this year's disasters — compared with the typical $30 billion total for a whole year — and peak hurrican...
Wireless networks fell quiet Sunday in some coastal areas of North Carolina and southern Virginia, but calls were going through in most areas affected by Tropical St...
The mere discussion of more economic stimulus from the Federal Reserve was enough to send stocks higher Tuesday. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 20 points, its...
A key witness in a case against a Hell's Angels member accused on drug and gun charges is missing along with two other men, raising the suspicions of relatives and a...
Diane Stoddard hasn't been back to see her home since Tropical Storm Irene hit.It doesn't exist anymore. And she can't bear to see the wreckage.The three-bedroom str...
Twelve days after they ventured out in Tropical Storm Irene and were never heard from again, a Vermont man and his son were mourned Friday in a joint funeral Mass, t...
Tropical Storm Irene barreled toward Puerto Rico late Sunday after hitting St. Croix, packing heavy rains and winds that closed airports and flooded low-lying areas ...
Last year's hurricanes and flooding not only engulfed homes and carried away roads and bridges in hard-hit areas of the country, it dispersed aggressive invasive spe...
Airlines planned to resume flights in and out of New York and Boston airports Monday after they were shut down over the weekend by Tropical Storm Irene.Nearly 12,000...
Heavy downpours add to damage left by Tropical Storm Irene
Tropical storm Irene continues traveling the US.
Flooding from Tropical Storm Irene swept away some bales of hay Doug Turner grew to feed his dairy cows and ripped open others, contaminating them with muddy water. ...
After being battered by flooding last year, farmers across the Northeast and Midwest can at least be thankful that a relatively warm and largely snowless winter has ...
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