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    Videos show upstate New York, Vermont Irene flooding

    Hurricane Irene failed to be the apocalyptic, big-city disaster scenario that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg had spelled out late last week, but the storm still managed to leave 5 million homes and businesses without power and dozens dead.

    The storm caused some of the worst flooding in a century in Vermont, and also submerged small upstate New York towns that are just now able to take stock of the damage.

    This ABC News report, below, shows the frightening flooding in New York and Vermont--including dramatic footage of a covered bridge washing out near Rockingham, Vermont:

    A North Carolina road was completely washed out by the storm. You can see flood waters bisecting Highway 12, which connects Hatteras and Ocracoke islands to the mainland, in the video below. The collapse left more than 2,000 people on the islands stranded from the North Carolina mainland. Six deaths have been reported in the state, most from falling trees.

    A Philadelphia computer engineer set up a webcam to monitor the level of water rising in his townhouse after he evacuated. He adopted a positive attitude about the severe flooding that he watched from safety. "It's stuff--it can be replaced," he said.

    Another video shows emergency officials rescuing an elderly couple from a flooded car in Mount Holly, Vermont. And this one shows a Fox reporter in Ocean City, Maryland getting pelted with foul-smelling sea foam, which most likely contained raw sewage.

     

    855 comments

    • Out of the Blue  •  8 mths ago
      What a BIG #$%$ MESS.....
    • Peng Long  •  8 mths ago
      Let pray that no more of this happen again, no one is killed in any part of the world. Is very frieghtening we often don't think of this happening in our place. Disaster can happen anywhere. We are fortunate so far Singapore is out of all Tsunami, hurricane, earthquarke, flood etc.
    • Ko-yeroon Aboma  •  8 mths ago
      let God help those in herricane Irene attack
    • JHD  •  8 mths ago
      Ms Liz: since when do storms "manage"? Your first sentence, "...storm still managed..."!! Wouldn't it be better to simply write, "... the storm left 5 million....". So many folks use the verb "manage" incorrectly. When you read the robber "managed" to get away, did he really plan, organize, lead, and control?
      • manowar 8 mths ago
        u never know they might...both has one in common, they controlled the victim. guess u hv to think out of the box miss grammerlyvocabulicious bess.......ciou!
    • beav909  •  8 mths ago
      As I watch these devestating scenes, my heart and thoughts go out to the affected. Mother Nature is FAR more powerful than we as humans could ever even conceive of being.

      While Al Gore and his ilk (LIBs, in general) look at a scene like this and blame US...humans...and USE IT to prescribe more taxes, more regulation and fewer rights as the "cure", thinking, rational (conservative) Americans recognize the sheer power of our violent home planet Earth and realize that no amount of Al Gore "carbon credits" will EVER have a single iota of an impact on weather events and natural disasters. Yet this is a pillar for these people. "Environmentalism", which is code word for power and control in the NAME of the environment, is based on fantasies and projections. And then, look at what they do, not what they say. Al Gore is the quintessential example of the pointy-headed leftist who uses such scare-tactics to gain more power and control but who DOESN'T LIVE IT HIMSELF as he often uses private jets, has huge mansion estates, drives SUVs, limosines etc... And the lemmings fall for it. An event like this inspires them to let politicians take more control and power over their lives. It's amazing to watch.

      God bless the folks on the East Coast who have been affected. We all have our worries....earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados, floods, drought, infestations, etc... It's a wicked, violent world in a lot of ways. Even the great, enlightened, well-intentioned LIBerals cannot stop Mother Nature from doing her thing. "But it's getting worse!!!" No, it's not. As recently as the 1930s, we had WORSE things going on...from floods to drougthts to hurricanes, tornados, sand storms and more. And we know that all of these kinds of things happened in ancient times as well. LIBs live a lie. And for what?
    • Kaz  •  8 mths ago
      Its really sad to see what nature can do to us in this world.. just hope that this Irene flood be over now...
    • Chad Bell  •  8 mths ago
      "Eagles" Island in the pond, Where yearling calls to mama, Soaring with the wind, On attitudes of change; She descends over the water, Mid-glide inverts talons showing,
      To ward off falcon's furry, My eyes privileged to see; Of this, natures calling, This day within my heart, At direction waters drifting, One American voice shall start.
    • amani  •  8 mths ago
      we need to stop shooting rocket and other things which destroying the weather
    • A Yahoo! User  •  8 mths ago
      I AM Soooo Fed UP with Horror flicks! That is not entertainment it's nothing but Crap!
      Some People Love Evil & Hate Good... Shame
    • Gurumurthy Hegde  •  8 mths ago
      The god makes these type of disasters for balancing the nature. we the men can just pray the god for the goodness of them who effected by these type of disasters.
    • daniel y  •  8 mths ago
      I believe that as long as they keep shooting rockets through the atmosphere the earth will continue to to have catastrophic changes in the way it affects the earth's weather patterns,both in intensity and frequency of all storms we have.Look at all the tornadoes and now an earthquakes felt clear in my home town in greene county Pa, It's nothing to do with god or money, it's just us putting holes in the sky.
      • Mary Popends 8 mths ago
        It's oil drilling,bombings,satellites, diesel fuel, many contributing factors,which man is the cause.God doesn't do that sort of thing,at least that's what I was taught!
      • CaryllC 8 mths ago
        Just how solid is the atmosphere?
      • Albert 8 mths ago
        ...and there were no earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, etc. BEFORE oil drilling, bombings, rockets shooting through the atmosphere, etc.?!!!?? Where are you people getting your facts?
    • Jason M  •  8 mths ago
      For all the tragedy what we can do is to pray for the goodness of all.
    • Umesh Gurung  •  8 mths ago
      im my river
    • Roy  •  8 mths ago
      people think that this is not god way of deal with the human race .just like when Katrina hit the Gulfcoast it made people relize there was more than just the al mighty dollar to be made .and this man made the comment on a unrepentent public how do you know this not god way of dealing with people it say there plags. unnatural weather events,wars mister you need to talk to god and ask for his forgiveness .and pray god will save your soul from a burning helll.
      • Brad 8 mths ago
        i guess god dosent care if you cant make a sensible complete sentence... jeeze dude... just tell everyone you've been drinking and it'll be ok...
      • Th3J3sus 8 mths ago
        You are a jackass for thinking "god" did this.
      • Steven 8 mths ago
        That was absolutely a mess to read through. I'm pretty sure you could have typed it in a foreign language and I could have understood it easier through Google translate.
    • Paul  •  9 mths ago
      thanks god is over.ahora esperar con pasiencia que despues de la tormenta biene la calma tenemo un dios muy grande que no ba ha probeer todos lo que no falte y despues de dios tenemo mucha gentes buena con un corazones generosos y un presidente dipuesto a resorver los problemas que agobian al ser humano que sufren por su perdiga.gracias a dios que no hubo tanta perdiga humana gracias al esquipo de rescate tan grande que tienen los estado unidos.que dios los bendigas a todos.y lo siga cuidando bendiciones.
      • Dennis 9 mths ago
        Speak English please
      • Mr Handsome 9 mths ago
        ahora senorita
      • Jose 9 mths ago
        Porfaplease speake Spanishol because no le entiendo nothing at all.
    • Won hung Lo  •  9 mths ago
      Won Hung Lo have hypothesis how hurricane start. Too rong to write down so in short, it Obama faurt!!! hahahahahahahahahahahahahahah
      • Ian 9 mths ago
        What a racist, ignorant idiot you are. This is all you have to say about a disaster. Nothing about the people whose towns are ruined? No condolences? What a horrible, horrible person you are.
      • George 9 mths ago
        I laughed. I speculate you're young. Old angry people can't come up with funny stuff like this. Irene may boost the economy!
    • Jocelyn Bahandi Dizon  •  9 mths ago
      God reminds us for our faith in HIM...
    • Marzouk  •  9 mths ago
      prayer from egypt to everyone on east coast will be safe....
    • Myra  •  9 mths ago
      This is so sad i pray to god we have no more hurricanes.
    • Paul  •  8 mths ago
      natures cycle
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