“The worst one I’ve seen since I’ve been here is in ’03 — Isabel,” Mahoney said. That storm had been a Category 5 hurricane, making landfall in North Carolina as a Category 2 storm. That storm tracked ...

Hurricane Irene may not have fulfilled the worst-case scenarios predicted along her path, but the deadly storm did claim seven lives in New Jersey as it overwhelmed the region with flooding rains. The ...

Update as of 12:03 p.m., ET, Aug. 28: Irene has been downgraded to a tropical storm and is heading into New England. CNN reports over 3 million people in 5 states without power and, sadly, at least 12 ...

Two nuclear power reactors which were shut down as Hurricane Irene swept up the east coast of the USA have now been restarted. Exelon's single-unit Oyster Creek plant in New Jersey was taken offline ...