30/08/2011 10:47
Hurricane Irene kills at least 40 people
Hurricane Irene killed at least 40 people as it moved from the Caribbean through New England, left an estimated $2.6 billion in damage and cut power to almost 8 million homes and businesses along the U.S. East Coast, the Bloomberg Businessweek reports.
He source reports that about 5.12 million customers in 13 states and the District of Columbia remained in the dark yesterday, according to the U.S. Energy Department, following the weekend storm which led to severe flooding in parts of Vermont, New York and New Jersey. At 3 p.m. yesterday, New York had the most outages of any state, at almost 889,000, according to an agency statement. Restoring power may take more than a week in some areas, utilities said.