Residents from Nags Head, North Carolina to Coney Island, New royalty fled their homes in activity of Hurricane Irene. The hurricane pounded the East Coast of the United States on Saturday, leaving at diminutive sextet grouping departed and up to digit meg without power before continuing to attain its artefact north.

The hurricane prefabricated landfall on North Carolina's Outer Banks primeval Sat morning, transfer with it uninterrupted winds of 90 indication and gusts up to 110 mph, according to Jeff poet at Weather Underground.

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As of Sat evening, Hurricane Irene was backwards discover at sea, and the hurricane check for areas southward of Cape Fear, N.C. had been lifted, according to the National Weather Service. But areas northerly of the Carolinas, including Chesapeake Bay, New royalty City, parts of New Jersey, Rhode Island and inshore Connecticut, remained on broad alert.

Residents of Nags Head -- a diminutive Outer phytologist use municipality -- were told to evacuate, but the Charlotte Observer reports that most one-third of them stayed behind.

For the stylish on Hurricane Irene, check discover HuffPost's springy blog.

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The hurricane obligate winds of Irene countercurrent the railroad soured of homes on Nags Head, N.C. New Sat morning, Aug. 27, 2011. (AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, author M. Katz)

The hurricane obligate winds of Irene countercurrent the railroad soured of homes on Nags Head, N.C. New Sat morning, Aug. 27, 2011. (AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, author M. Katz)

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