US braced for hurricane onslaught
Hurricane Irene zeroed in for a catastrophic run up the US East Coast as more than two million people were told to move to safer places, and New York City ordered America’s biggest underground system shut down for the first time because of a natural disaster.
A hurricane warning was in effect from North Carolina in the South all the way to Massachusetts in the North – including for New York City, where more than a quarter of a million people were ordered to evacuate ahead of Irene’s approach.
