Bracing for Hurricane Irene: MTA's doomsday situation is total system closure

The MTA's commit to shut down the city's transit system in anticipation of an on the spot hit from Hurricane Irene begins by pulling service offline a minimum of twelve hours before the storm makes landfall. An evacuation amount of ten to twelve hours - scheduled throughout daylight - would precede any systemwide shutdown, in step with the MTA's step-by-step hurricane set up, that the Daily News obtained Thursday. EVACUATION ZONE MAP: realize YOUR HOME The evacuation amount is meant to permit...

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Irene Churns Toward the East Coast

Hurricane Irene marched north Thursday once battering the Bahamas, threatening to hammer the Outer Banks of North Carolina on Saturday before raking the jap seaboard on its thanks to ny and New England. Irene, a class three storm packing a hundred and fifteen mile-per-hour winds as of five p.m. Thursday, may still strengthen, forecasters said. And its projected path hugging the coast may modification, they said, bringing the storm additional inland. "Any additional deviation to the left may bring direct impact as so much inland because the Washington-Baltimore space," said Bill scan, director...

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