WHAT NORTHEAST CITIES FACED

• Rain (2 to 20 in) over a wide area from the eye—major flooding exacerbated by slow runoff

• Wind (40 + mph)—damage to trees, homes, buildings, and infrastructure

WHAT NORTHEAST CITIES FACED

• Beach erosion and mudslides--irreversible loss due to permanent changes in the landscape.

• Tornadoes---no warning; deadly on the local level

NEW YORK CITY:: Heavy rainfall overflowed sewers,

seawater lapped at sidewalks at the edges of the city, and water cascaded toward Wall

Street, which had been fortified with sandbags.

MAYOR BLOOMBURG CALLED FOR

RESTORE AND RECOVERY TO START MONDAY, AUGUST 29th

A Ray of Hope for New York City

Drenched, but still Standing

AUG 28: FORECAST OF IRENE’S PATH

All parts of the East Coast were on high alert for major flooding as rivers swelled from the runoff of Irene’s

heavy rain fall

IRENE’S IMPACTS: The storm that marched up the East Coast on

August 27th pounded the entire path with torrential rains and

fierce winds and caused power outages for more than 6 million

homes and businesses.

OVERALL IMPACTS (continued): The storm caused an unprecedented

shutdown of the transit systems in Washington, Philadelphia, Boston and New York; It left rail and airline service

in the Northeast paralyzed, and left hundreds of thousands of people

without power.

OVERALL IMPACTS (continued):

Government officials issued evacuation orders for about 3 million people along the Eastern Seaboard,

ranging from 100,000 people in Delaware to a million people in New

Jersey

FEMA WAS READY

The Federal Emergency Management Agency had 18 disaster-response

teams in place along the East Coast, with stockpiles of food, water and

mobile communications equipment ready to go.

A COMMON STATEMENT

“This is the worst flooding we’ve ever had,”

AUGUST 28: IMPACTS IN VIRGINIA

In Virginia, more than 40 cm (16 in) of rain fell in conjunction with the

fourth-highest storm surge on record, and winds reached 140 kph (86 mph), wreaking havoc in towns and cities and causing at least four fatalities.

IMPACTS IN PHILADELPHIA: Philadelphia, which lies between

the Schulkill and Delaware Rivers, was hit hard; parts of the city were

flooded, water was as high as street-sign levels in some areas, and flash flood warnings were issued for Eastern and Central

Pennsylvania.

AUGUST 28: IMPACTS IN MASSACHUSETS

Flooding was a particular threat to towns along the Connecticut River

and other waterways in central and western Massachusetts,

where roads were closed and low-lying areas evacuated.

AUGUST 28: IMPACTS IN RHODE ISLAND

Heavy rain and strong winds with gusts reaching 45 + mph occurred when Irene arrived in Rhode Island

on Sunday morning, knocking down trees and power lines, and leaving more than 100,000 homes

without electricity.

IMPACTS IN VERMONT:

In Vermont, “epic” flooding from Irene’s heavy rainfall

inundated a number of towns in southern Vermont and isolated many of them,

Loss estimates (still being tallied ) indicate that Irene will almost certainly rank

among the nation's costliest natural disasters.

Irene is blamed for at least 45 deaths in the continental

U.S., plus one in Puerto Rico and seven more in the

Dominican Republic and Haiti.

2011’s TENTH STORM

TROPICAL STORM JOSE

FORMED LATE SUNDAY (AUGUST 28th NEAR BERMUDA

AUG 28: TROPICAL STORM JOSE DID NOT LIVE LONG

2011’s ELEVENTH STORM

TROPICAL STORM KATIA

FORMED ON AUGUST 30th AND DEVELOPED INTO SECOND

HURRICANE OF SEASON ON AUG 31

AUG 31: KATIA DID BECOME A CAT 3 HURRICANE

SEPT 5: FORECAST FOR KATIA (A CAT 2 HURRICANE)

2011’s TWELFTH STORM

TROPICAL DEPRESSION 13 BECAME TROPICAL STORM LEE

FORMING IN GULF OF MEXICO ON SEPTEMBER 2

SEPTEMBER 2: FLORIDA BEING SANDWICHED BY LEE AND KATIA

SEPT 2: Almost half the oil production in the Gulf of

Mexico and a third of natural gas output in Lee’s

path were shut down.

RAIN IN LEE (SOURCE: NASA’S AQUA SATELLITE)

SEPT 4: At 8 a.m. EDT, the National Hurricane Center said Lee's center had come ashore

on the Louisiana coast about 80 km (50 mi) west of Lafayette, LA with maximum sustained winds

of 75 kph (45 mph) headed north at 5 kph (3 mph)

SEPT 4: NEW ORLEANS escaped without a Katrina-

type, breached-levee, flooding disaster and no deaths, but the

city had some local flooding and tens of thousands were

without power.

SEPT 4: Since Thursday (Sept 1), parts of New Orleans had as much as 37 cm (15 in) of rain; 40 cm (16 in) in nearby

Gretna, and over 27 cm (11 in) in parts of St. Bernard and

Jefferson parishes.

RAIN FROM LEE FORECAST FOR MUCH OF EASTERN USA

SEPTEMBER 6: As of 10 p.m., there were 213,000 power outages reported

statewide, including 162,000 in the Birmingham area..

SEPT 8: 100,000 flee flash floods after the National Weather Service (NWS)

issued a flash flood warning for several counties in New

York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut,

Maryland and Virginia

2011’s THIRTEENTH STORM

THE TROPICAL DEPRESSION, WHICH WAS FORMING IN THE ATLANTIC ON

SEPTEMBER 3rd

BECAME TROPICAL STORM MARIA ON SEPTEMBER 7th

SEPTEMBER 7: TROPICAL STORM MARIA FORMS AND STARTS PATH

2011’s FOURTEENTH STORM

TROPICAL STORM NATE FORMED ON SEPTEMBER 8th

SEPT 8: KATIA (ON RIGHT) AND TS NATE IN SW GULF OF MEXICO