Hurrican Irene

Earlier this week Hurrican Irene passed along the east coast of the United States leaving a wake of power outages, floods, and destruction. Millions of people have been left without power and many more along the coast had to be evacuated and an estimated 10,000 commericila airline flights were cancelled. This had been reported as one of the ten most deadly and destructive hurricanes to hit the United Staes since 1980.