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Irene Lands in NJ, Big Apple Braces

Polly Davis Doig — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 07:02:18 CDT

Barely a hurricane but massive and packed with rain, Irene lumbered onto the New Jersey shore this morning on its way toward pummeling New York, which the AP reports turned eerily quiet as the city hunkered down. The National Hurricane Center said the center of the huge storm reached land...

It's Too Late to Flee Texas, Officials Warn

Harry Kimball — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:34:13 CDT

Officials in Houston and Galveston warned residents to stay put tonight as Hurricane Ike threatened to become a Category 3 storm, CNN reports. “If someone has not left the island by now, they need to go get inside and stay there,” the mayor of Galveston said. Nearly a quarter million...