HURRICANE

Hurricane Irene is jolting Long Island to prepare for the worst case scenario, urged the government of Nassau County, Long Island.

Goodnight Irene! a North Carolina resident wrote on their house, which was left boarded up, anticipating the arrival of Hurricane Irene in Nags Head, N.C., The storm's punishing weather from the Carolinas to as far north as Massachusetts threatens at least 65 million people in the storm's track.

Residents in Ocean City, Md. Were ordered to evacuate as the monster storm Hurricane Irene is expected to hit the Maryland shore Sunday.

The entire Delmarva peninsula has been warned that a storm of Irene’s power has not been experienced in the region in decades.

Hurricane Irene 2011 is preparing to make a path of destruction and havoc up the U.S. East Coast beginning late Friday in North Carolina before hitting New York and Boston and other major cities on Sunday. Coastal regions were being evacuated in Delaware Friday, and states of emergency have been declared at states all along the coast line, from North Carolina and Virginia to New York and New Jersey as the potential storm of a lifetime gets ready to make landfall or come close on the U.S.

Maryland began taking major precautions, including evacuating Ocean City, ahead of the Hurricane Irene storm that began to hit North Carolina on Friday.

Hurricane Irene claimed its first American casualties Thursday when eight people were injured in South Florida, and as the hurricane continues its path of the East Coast.

Waves of up to 8 feet have been seen on Friday morning from Myrtle Beach, S.C. up to the Outer Banks.

Irene would truly have to be a catastrophic event to fall into the following list of the costliest natural disasters in recorded history.

Ready or not residents of the Northeast, including Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, powerful Hurricane Irene is on a path your way, with extraordinary risk threat and potential of flooding rain, high winds, downed power lines and power outages. Irene is expected to reach the northeast by this weekend. Updated forecast models on Friday show that poses an extraordinary threat and is one that no one has yet experienced from North Carolina to the mid-Atlantic to the Northeast to New England...

Latest reports show Hurricane Irene progressing northward at 14 mph and is expected to make landfall on Saturday with North Carolina and New York in the storm's path. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, declared a state of emergency on Thursday, activating all levels of state government to prepare for any situation that may be caused by Hurricane Irene.

Hurricane Irene continued a path Friday toward creating havoc in the upper U.S. East Coast, striking or heavily impacting cities including Boston, Hartford, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. The storm poses an extraordinary threat and will begin impacting North Carolina coastal areas late Friday before ravaging the U.S. Mid-Atlantic, Northeast and New England regions, likely assaulting major metropolitan areas including New York, Hartford, Washington, Boston and Philadelphia.

Here are the top 10 precautions that you need to keep in mind or have a list of while you prepare for the forthcoming climatic catastrophe.

Hurricane Irene 2011 continues a path Friday toward wreaking havoc in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic, Northeast and New England regions, likely assaulting major metropolitan areas.

Hurricane Irene, the first tropical cyclone of the Atlantic Hurricane Season 2011, is predicted to reach Category 4 with maximum sustained winds of 131-155 miles per hour as it strikes eastern North Carolina on Saturday, while a Category 1 storm with a wind speed of 90 miles per hour is expected to hit New York on Sunday.

Hurricane Irene remained on a path Friday morning to make extraordinary impact in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast United States, weather forecasters warned.

The Category 1 storm with a wind speed of 90 mph coupled with heavy downpour is predicted to hit New York sometime Sunday. New York City Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, said on Thursday that it was very conceivable that he will order a mandatory evacuation of all low-lying areas of the city by Saturday, reported the New York Daily News.

Officials have ordered thousands of Maryland residents and visitors to leave Ocean City.

As Irene moves in on North Carolina, NASA satellite photos shows its diameter is now about one-third the length of the whole U.S. Atlantic coastline.

A state of emergency has been declared in six states toward the U.S. East Coast after Hurricane Irene caused havoc in the Bahamas.

Hurricane Irene has left the Bahamas and is now churning toward the East Coast of the United States.