NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- The National Hurricane Center says Irene is moving up the mid-Atlantic coast, lashing the region with heavy rains and blustery winds. The center said at 2 a.m. EDT Sunday ...

From North Carolina to Maine, residents and businesses cleaned up and took stock of the costs of Hurricane Irene, a monster storm that spared the nation's biggest city a nightmare scenario, only ...

Hurricane Irene and its remnants raked the Caribbean, the eastern U.S. and Canada for more than a week a year ago. Though it never hit the U.S. as anything stronger than a minimal hurricane, it kil… ...

In 1960, Hurricane Donna created an 11-foot (3.4-meter) storm surge in New York Harbor, causing extensive pier damage, according to the New York City Office of Emergency Management.

Hurricane Irene made landfall in New Jersey early Sunday and hit New York City as a tropical storm. The 700-mile-wide storm pelted the tri-state area with heavy rains, flash floods and strong winds.

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. As Hurricane Irene continued to pummel the Bahamas on Thursday ...

Just a small perturbation from this scenario would bring Irene over New York City as a Category 2 hurricane, with a storm surge of 15 - 20 feet. Fortunately, the European model was wrong, and ...

When hurricane Irene failed to flood Manhattan as predicted over the weekend, many called the evacuation an overreaction to media hype – one local told the New York Times he was “embarrassed ...

Evacuations began in low-lying parts of New York early Friday as the ferocious Hurricane Irene continued to barrel toward the East Coast.

Unfortunately, those factors will not necessarily work in favor of New York in the case of Hurricane Irene, a stubbornly large and slow-moving storm that, according to some projections, may be ...

In 2011, Irene killed at least 40 people in 11 states and caused more than $6.5 billion in damage. Some officials fear the current rains could surpass Irene’s.