29/08/2011 10:44
Weakened Irene heads to Canada
The former Category 1 hurricane, which has moved across the border into Canada, has now been reduced in strength to a post-tropical storm.
As Irene's strength waned late Sunday, forecasters said warnings for the U.S. east coast had all been called off, although tropical storm warnings are on for the southcoast of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
Irene is being blamed for the deaths of at least 19 people from Florida to New Jersey, including two children, an 11-year-old boy in Virginia killed when a tree crashed through his roof and a North Carolina child who died in a crash at an intersection where traffic lights were out, CBC News reported.