HURRICANE IRENE Update – August 25, 2011.
We have posted tracking information and strength projections in our previous postings. Today we are again calling for all persons living in or near coastal areas from southeastern Florida all the way up the East Coast to the Canadian Maritime Provinces to BE ALERT and BE PREPARED!
Hurricane Irene is a Category 3 hurricane – a MAJOR. It is expected to INCREASE in intensity and to widen as it does.
This will involve more coastal areas as the hurricane makes it’s way up the entire East Coast of the US. This hurricane will, in some way, directly affect nearly 30 million people as well as animals and pets.
Persons near the coastal areas of South Carolina and especially North Carolina, are already under Emergency Operations Center orders for regional evacuations. Persons in coastal Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, and most of New England will be under additional EOC orders of varying degrees from Friday into early next week. Persons in low lying coastal areas all along the East Coast will experience local flooding due to high wave action and storm surge potential as well as high winds, torrential rains, lightning, and tornadoes in the outer rain bands.
Do not be complacent and think that this hurricane will not affect you – If you are in or near coastal areas of the East Coast – IT WILL.
For up to the minute official advisories and information, please visit the NHC website in Miami:
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“THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL ADVISORY. These updates and advisories are based upon information from our own computer models, NOAA, Local Weather Data Centers, deep water Buoy Data, and other publicly available sources. FOR THE SAFETY OF YOUR PROPERTY AND PERSON, please refer to your Local, State, and Federal Authority updates for Official Advisories and Orders. For up to the minute advisories and official updates, it is essential that you monitor your local Emergency Government, NOAA and Local Media Broadcasts. Please do not make personal safety decisions based upon information presented here in this Unofficial Advisory.”
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