허리케인에 美동부 마비
반경 400㎞로 대륙 휩쓸어 300만 가구 전력 공급 끊겨
최소 10명 사망… 군대 투입
미국 정치·경제의 중심지 미 동부가 허리케인 '아이린(Irene)'의 타격으로 마비됐다. 해안의 원자력발전소가 안전을 우려로 잠정 폐쇄됐고, 워싱턴 DC와 가까운 버지니아·노스캐롤라이나주(州)에 폭우가 쏟아지면서 약 300만 가구의 전력 공급이 끊겼다. 버지니아주에선 강풍으로 쓰러진 나무가 아파트 지붕을 덮쳐 11세 소년이 목숨을 잃는 등 28일 오전(현지시각)까지 최소 10명이 사망한 것으로 집계됐다. 뉴욕시는 27일 오후 월가(街)가 있는 맨해튼 남부를 비롯한 저지대 거주자 약 37만명에게 대피 명령을 내렸다.◆"반경 400㎞…심각한 홍수 위험"
매사추세츠주 마서스 비니어드에서 휴가를 보내고 있던 버락 오바마 대통령은 예정보다 하루 이른 26일 휴가를 중단하고 워싱턴으로 돌아와 버지니아·뉴햄프셔·뉴저지 등 동부 6개 주에 비상사태를 선포했다. 리언 파네타 미 국방장관은 병력 6500명이 구호작업 투입을 위해 대기하고 있다고 말했다.
- ▲ 물에 잠긴 맨해튼 소호 지역… 미국 동부를 강타한 허리케인 ‘아이린’이 몰고 온 폭우로 28일 뉴욕 맨해튼 소호 지역의 그랜드스트리트와 웨스트브로드웨이가 물에 잠겼다. 뉴욕시는 이날 저지대 주민 37만명을 대상으로 사상 첫 대피명령을 내렸다. /AP 뉴시스
27일 오후 7시쯤 노스캐롤라이나주 동부 해안에 도착한 아이린은 버지니아·뉴저지를 차례로 지나며 많은 비를 뿌린 후 뉴욕을 지나며 북상 중이다. 미 국토안보부는 28일 오전 아이린의 등급을 허리케인보다 약한 '열대 폭풍'으로 강등했고 28일 오전 현재 풍속은 약 104㎞로 26일 180㎞에 비해 크게 줄었다. CNN은 "시간이 지나며 아이린의 위력이 약해지고는 있지만 반경이 400㎞가 넘는 거대한 허리케인이 동반하는 강한 바람과 많은 강수량의 영향으로 해수면이 높아질 경우 심각한 홍수 피해가 발생할 수 있다"고 전했다.
- ▲ 미 항공우주국(NASA)이 27일 공개한 허리케인 ‘아이린’의 모습. 미 동부를 강타한 아이린은 28일 오전까지 최소 10명의 목숨을 앗아갔다. /AFP 연합뉴스
◆뉴욕, 사상 첫 대피 명령지난겨울 눈폭풍에 대한 늑장 조처로 많은 비난을 받았던 마이클 블룸버그 뉴욕 시장은 수차례 연설을 통해 시민들에 대비책을 전달하는 등 적극적으로 대응했다. 뉴욕시로 진입하는 3개 공항(존 F 케네디·라가디아·뉴어크)은 허리케인이 미 남부에 도착한 26일 오후부터 대부분의 착륙을 취소했고, 28일 정오쯤부턴 이륙도 금지키로 했다. 토요일 정오엔 지하철 운행이 전격 중단되고 기차역·고속버스 정류장도 폐쇄됐다. 뉴욕으로 오가는 대중교통 수단이 사실상 단절되면서 뉴욕은 거리가 텅 빈 정적의 도시로 변했다. 한국 뮤지컬 '영웅' 등 브로드웨이의 뮤지컬들도 이날 공연을 취소하고 극장을 폐쇄했다.
뉴욕시는 또 강과 인접한 맨해튼 서부와 월가 등 저지대 주민 37만명을 대상으로 사상 첫 대피명령을 내렸다. 블룸버그 시장은 "대피하지 않는다고 벌금을 부과하거나 체포하지는 않겠지만, 명령을 따르지 않으면 목숨을 잃을 수 있다는 사실을 명심하길 바란다"고 경고했다. 허리케인 아이린은 27일 오후부터 강한 비를 뿌리기 시작했다. 한때 이스트강이 범람해 맨해튼 남부가 침수되고 롱아일랜드 약 1만6590가구 등 뉴욕시 약 10만 가구의 전기 공급이 끊겼다.
뉴욕시는 또 강과 인접한 맨해튼 서부와 월가 등 저지대 주민 37만명을 대상으로 사상 첫 대피명령을 내렸다. 블룸버그 시장은 "대피하지 않는다고 벌금을 부과하거나 체포하지는 않겠지만, 명령을 따르지 않으면 목숨을 잃을 수 있다는 사실을 명심하길 바란다"고 경고했다. 허리케인 아이린은 27일 오후부터 강한 비를 뿌리기 시작했다. 한때 이스트강이 범람해 맨해튼 남부가 침수되고 롱아일랜드 약 1만6590가구 등 뉴욕시 약 10만 가구의 전기 공급이 끊겼다.
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New York wakes to Hurricane Irene
Though the storm weakened as it moved up the Eastern Seaboard, it continued to funnel storm surge and floodwater to the Jersey Shore overnight, where the National Hurricane Center said the center of the storm crossed over land near Little Egg Inlet, north of Atlantic City, around 5:35 a.m. The storm’s maximum sustained winds are estimated to be 75 miles per hour, making it a weak category one hurricane.
The hurricane first came ashore Saturday morning near Cape Lookout, N.C., then slipped back over water farther north near Virginia and Maryland before hitting land again in New Jersey.
New York was the next major city in the hurricane’s path, and for much of the night, the metropolitian area was pounded with heavy rain and wind, causing power failures and flooding.
While New York had all but closed down in anticipation of what forecasters warned could be violent winds with the force to drive a wall of water over the beaches in the Rockaways and between the skyscrapers of Lower Manhattan, as of early Sunday morning, all bridges and tunnels remained open, with the exception of the lower level of the George Washington Bridge because of high winds, said Steve Coleman, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
Forecasters said the relentless rain from the slow-moving storm made it very dangerous.
“Even though they are saying that the storm is quote-unquote weakening, hurricane winds are hurricane winds,” John Searing, the deputy commissioner of the Suffolk County Department of Fire, Rescue and Emergency Services, said before daybreak Sunday as he prepared to deal with the damage. “Whether they say it’s 80 miles or 75 miles an hour, what’s the physical difference in that?”
City officials warned that a big problem could be flooding at high tide, at about 8 a.m. Sunday — before the storm has moved on and the wind has slacked off. The storm is expected to pass through by Sunday afternoon, moving into southern New England.
“That is when you’ll see the water come over the side,” Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg cautioned Saturday afternoon.
The National Hurricane Center warned that “water levels have been rising rapidly in advance of the center of Irene.” At 5 a.m., the center reported a storm surge of 3.1 feet at Cape May, N.J., 3.8 feet in Sandy Hook, N.J., and 3.9 feet in New York Harbor.
On the Jackie Robinson Parkway, three feet of water blocked all lanes, state and city officials reported. Floodwaters diverted traffic on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and shut the southbound F.D.R. drive at 116th Street. The Union Turnpike ramp on the Grand Central Parkway was shut, and on the Cross Bronx Expressway, the rising waters blocked the exit at White Plains Road.
Hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in the New York area had lost electricity by early Sunday morning — 150,338 on Long Island, according to the Long Island Power Authority, which shut power to Fire Island, Captree Island, Robert Moses, and Oak Island; 166,000 in New Jersey, according to Public Service Electric and Gas; and about 57,992 in the city and in Westchester County, according to Consolidated Edison. Of those, more than 8,400 were on Staten Island, according to utility’s Web site, and about 5,000 in Queens and Brooklyn.
Utilities in Connecticut reported about 70,000 customers are without power, according to The Associated Press. The Connecticut Light and Power Company reported nearly 60,000 customers were without power early Sunday, and United Illuminating, which serves the Bridgeport and New Haven area, reported 10,000 customers.
“The number of outages continues to climb as Hurricane Irene moves north,” the New Jersey utility said in a statement on its Web site.
Since Friday, the city had done more than issue warnings. The subway system, one of the city’s trademarks, had shut down in the middle of the day on Saturday, and firefighters and social service workers had spent much of Saturday trying to complete the evacuation of about 370,000 residents in low-lying areas where officials expected flooding to follow the storm. In New Jersey, Gov. Chris Christie said that more than a million people had been evacuated, mainly from four counties in the southern part of the state.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo ordered 2,000 National Guard troops called up. Mr. Cuomo saw the first of them off from the 69th Regiment Armory, on Lexington Avenue at 26th Street, after saying they would assist the police, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. He also said that some would be sent to Long Island, which could face heavy damage in the storm.
Mr. Christie said 1,500 National Guard troops had been deployed in New Jersey.
The mayor attributed one casualty to the storm, a 66-year-old man who fell from a ladder while trying to board up windows at his house in Jamaica, Queens, early in the day. A Fire Department spokesman said the man, who was not immediately identified, was in serious condition at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center.
The mayor said police rescuers had pulled two kayakers from the water off Staten Island after their boats capsized. “When they were out there in spite of all the warnings, I don’t know,” the mayor said at his late-evening briefing, adding that they had been “kept afloat by lifejackets” they were wearing. He said they had been given summonses.
He also said that going out in the water as the storm approached was a “reckless” move that had “diverted badly-needed N.Y.P.D. resources.”
Mr. Bloomberg said the transit system was “unlikely to be back” in service on Monday. He said crews would have to pump water from tunnels if they flooded and restore the signal system before they could move the parked trains out. That would mean “the equipment’s not where you would want it” for the morning rush, he said. “Plan on a commute without mass transit on Monday morning.”
Mr. Bloomberg also said electricity could be knocked out in Lower Manhattan if Consolidated Edison shut off the power to pre-empt the problems that flooding could cause for its cables. (A Con Ed spokesman said later that the company, while prepared, had no immediate plans for that kind of shutdown.)
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Mel Martin joins a crowd watching the raging Whetstone Brook surge over the falls in downtown Brattleboro, Vt., on Aug. 28. Tropical Storm Irene dumped torrential rains on Vermont, flooding rivers and closing roads from Massachusetts to the Canadian border, putting parts of two towns underwater and leaving one young woman swept away and feared drowned in the Deerfield River.
This section of Route 7 south of Rutland, Vt., was washed out on Monday.
Sikorsky Memorial Airport in Strafford, Conn., saw storm damage from Irene.
The top layer of blacktop on River Road lies peeled off due to AuSable River flooding in Lake Placid, N.Y., on Aug. 29.
Stranded travelers rest at LaGuardia Airport in New York on Aug. 29. The couple lying down is scheduled to take a flight to Dallas on Aug. 30. New York-area airports reopened on Aug. 29 as airlines gradually restored service after canceling more than 11,000 flights.
Residents in Rodanthe, N.C., walk on Aug. 28 along Hwy. 12, the main road that connects Cape Hatteras National Seashore to the mainland, after it was destroyed by Hurricane Irene.
Firefighters put out a fire at a rental house on Aug. 28 after it was destroyed by Irene at Cape Hatteras National Seashore in Rodanthe, N.C.
This section of Route 7 south of Rutland, Vt., was washed out on Monday.
Sikorsky Memorial Airport in Strafford, Conn., saw storm damage from Irene.
The top layer of blacktop on River Road lies peeled off due to AuSable River flooding in Lake Placid, N.Y., on Aug. 29.
Stranded travelers rest at LaGuardia Airport in New York on Aug. 29. The couple lying down is scheduled to take a flight to Dallas on Aug. 30. New York-area airports reopened on Aug. 29 as airlines gradually restored service after canceling more than 11,000 flights.
Residents in Rodanthe, N.C., walk on Aug. 28 along Hwy. 12, the main road that connects Cape Hatteras National Seashore to the mainland, after it was destroyed by Hurricane Irene.
Firefighters put out a fire at a rental house on Aug. 28 after it was destroyed by Irene at Cape Hatteras National Seashore in Rodanthe, N.C.
Rodanthe N.C. - Part of highway 12 in Rodanthe was wiped away by the storm surge from Irene.
Hatteras Island, N.C. - A battered beachfront on Hatteras Island.
Fairhaven, Mass.- Wave crashes into a seawall in Fairhaven.
Aug. 28: A man pedals through a flooded street in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, New York. Seawater surged into the streets of Manhattan on Sunday as Tropical Storm Irene slammed into New York, downgraded from a hurricane but still unleashing furious wind and rain. The flooding threatened Wall Street and the heart of the global financial network.
A vehicle navigates through water in the road left behind by Hurricane Irene in Nags Head, N.C. The hurricane unloaded more than a foot of water on North Carolina, spun off tornadoes in Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, and left 3 million homes and businesses without power as it moved up the East Coast.
Aug. 28: People sleep at Penn Station in New York, as Hurricane Irene approaches the region. Public transportation in New York shut down around noon on Saturday. Irene has the potential to cause billions of dollars in damage all along a densely populated arc that includes Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Boston and beyond.
Aug. 28: A downed tree blocks a section of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, with City Hall visible, in Philadelphia, as Hurricane Irene makes its way along the Eastern Seaboard.
Aug. 28: A man walks in Times Square as Hurricane Irene arrives in New York.
Aug. 28: Lower Manhattan is seen amidst dark clouds in New York.
Hurricane Irene is the first hurricane to make landfall in the continental United States since 2008, and came almost six years to the day after Katrina ravaged New Orleans. Experts guessed that no other hurricane in American history had threatened as many people.
Rough surf caused by Irene off the coast of Long Beach Island, N.J., Aug. 28.
A Fairfield Beach Road home is submerged in Pine Creek in Fairfield, Conn., as treacherous weather caused by Irene came through the area on Aug. 28.
Billy Stinson, left, comforts his daughter, Erin Stinson, as they sit on the steps where their cottage once stood before it was destroyed by Hurricane Irene in Nags Head, N.C., on Aug. 28. The cottage, built in 1903, was one of the first vacation cottages built on Albemarle Sound in Nags Head. Stinson has owned the home, which is listed in the National Register of Historic Places, since 1963. "We were pretending, just for a moment, that the cottage was still behind us and we were just sitting there watching the sunset," said Erin afterward.
Bravo Company 1st of 120 out of Whiteville ride through rural Goose Creek Island handing out bags of ice on Aug. 28, in Lowland, N.C. Hurricane Irene made landfall in North Carolina, creating a storm surge of up to 8 feet in some areas of the Pamilco Sound.
With the skyline of New York in the background, people fly a kite at the Erie-Lackawanna Park along Hudson River after the pass of Irene in Hoboken, N.J., Aug 28.
Officials survey the damage to Route 12 on Hatteras Island, N.C., Aug. 28. Hurricane Irene swept through the area Saturday, Aug. 27, cutting the roadway in five locations.
A family inspects a downed tree in New York's Central Park after Irene dumped more than 6 inches of rain on Aug. 28.
Mark Wade trips while surfing with his friend Craig Busick, left, in a large puddle in front of the Board of Education in Centreville, Md., Aug. 28, after Irene.
Danica Quinn, 9, and her dog Scruffy, stand in her front yard on C Street in Bridgeton, N.C., on Aug. 28. Quinn and her family were in their home during Hurricane Irene when winds toppled a pine tree that crashed through the roof of their living room. No one was hurt, though the house was destroyed
Annie Gullett, right, gets help from her daughter Katy Caroline, center, and friend Louise Sanderlin sorting through damaged items in her gift shop after it was flooded in the wake of Hurricane Irene, Aug. 28, in Manteo, N.C.
Darrell Tarte, a property estimator with Erie Insurance, surveys damage from a tree at a home in Port Republic, Md., on Aug. 28.
Two Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority trains sit in water on flooded tracks, Aug. 28, in Trenton, N.J. Rains from Irene caused inland flooding of rivers and streams
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'Rainwater collects beneath machinery at the World Trade Center site on Aug. 28 in New York.
High winds from Irene knocked down five large trees in front of the East River Cooperative Village apartment buildings along Grand Avenue, Aug. 28, in New York City.
Chris Swimm retrieves planks from a friend's deck washed away by waves from Irene that surged onto Wilbur's Point in Fairhaven, Mass., Aug. 28
Waves kicked up by Irene crash into homes on Wilbur's Point in Fairhaven, Mass., Aug. 28.
Hurricane Irene's wind and rain pour down as North Cove Marina employees work to secure gangways, docks and boats as seawater comes over the marina's low walls just before high tide in the World Financial Center Plaza on Aug. 28 in New York City
A man walks on a flooded street in Hoboken, N.J. on Sunday morning.
Irene pushed into the New York area on Sunday morning, unleashing rain and wind on a city girded for the worst. Rising water lapped over the seawall at Battery Park in Lower Manhattan
Low-lying areas in Manhattan were flooded, including along the East River near the Williamsburg Bridge.
City workers cleared fallen trees from a street in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.
Storm evacuees spent the night at a shelter set up by the city in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.
Partially submerged cars on Saybrook Street in Staten Island.
West 231st St. in Riverdale was a blanketed by branches and leaves.
A restaurant in Rye, N.Y., was flooded with two feet of water.
Residents of Long Beach viewed the rough surf on the south shore of Long Island Sunday afternoon.
A woman carried her daughter across a flooded street in Hoboken, N.J. In addition to flooding throughout the state, more than half a million residents were without power on Sunday.
On the Brooklyn Heights Promenade overlooking Lower Manhattan, Francesca Tate, accompanied by her husband Jim Tate, talks to her friend in Boston to see how the storm is there. The skies had already begun to clear by noon on Sunday after Hurricane Irene moved north.
In Brooklyn Heights on Hicks street, a large tree fell across the street.
A man walks in Time Square as hurrican Irene arrives in New York, on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011.
Ashbury park, NJ- Waves and storm surge pound the boardwalk and the beach at first light as Hurricane Irene slams into Asbury Park, New Jersey, August 28, 2011. Hurricane Irene knocked out power to 3.3 million homes and businesses along the U.S. East Coast, forced two nuclear plants to shut and idled oil ports and refining as it approached New York City early on Sunday
Highstone, NJ - A car sits submerged on Main Street on Aug.28. after Peddi Lake overflowed rom Hurricane Irene.
Ocean City, Maryland - Sand covers the boardwalk after Irene passed through the Ocean city on Aug.28, 2011.
New York -People wade through water on lower Manhattan's South Street, where Hurricane Irene caused some flooding as the East River spilled over the seawall
A jugger runs through water pushed by Irene across his path along the East River in New York.
South street flooded.
Police blocked the street around a utility downed by Hurricane Irene in Montauk on the east end of Long Island, New York.
New York residents return to the beach on Coney Island after Hurricane Irene swept through the city on Aug. 28, 2011Irene's rain threatens floods in New England
Asbury Park, NJ - Two Engineers from the public works department out for a safety inspection, are slammed by waves and storm surge pounding the seashore at first light Sunday.
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A man stands in a nearly deserted 7th street in Mahattan.
A man crossed the empty Time Square as Irene approaches the region.
A road sign warns inclement weather as a pedestrian crosses Canal St. in front of the Manhattan bridge in Lower Manhattan on Saturday.
A tornado generated by Hurricane Irene touched down on the Old Orchard and the New Road area west of Lewes Del., damaging several houses and uprooting trees.
Kitty Hawks, N.C. - Contractor Dennis Hromn, who recently did construction work on Avalon Pier, inspects the structure during the onslaught of Hurricane Irene.
Harlowe N.C. - Jason Justus of the Henderson County Swift Water Rescue Team checks a damaged mobile home for occupants.
Aug. 27: Floodwaters rise at dusk from the Albemarle Sound on the Outer Banks in Nags Head, N.C., as Hurricane Irene leaves the North Carolina coast. Hurricane Irene knocked out power and piers in North Carolina, clobbered Virginia with wind and churned up the coast Saturday to confront cities more accustomed to snowstorms than tropical storms.
Aug. 27: A group of people pose for photos on Fifth Avenue while vehicle traffic is light in advance of Hurricane Irene in New York.
Aug. 27: Blowing sand and rain are seen on the beach as the effects of Hurricane Irene are felt in Nags Head, N.C.
Aug. 27: One of two people rescued from a sailboat, right, uses a line to make their way onto the beach on Willoughby Spit in Norfolk, Va., after they and another person were rescued from the boat that foundered in the waters of the Chesapeake Bay. A rescuer, left, waits for a second person to exit the boat.
Aug. 27, 2011: Virginia Beach visitors point out the waves as Hurricane Irene approaches the region in Virginia Beach, Va.
Mesic, N.C. - Floodedwaters caused by Irene surround homes on Highway 304 near Mesic.
A security officer waits and watches in a building in New York Financial District.
New Bern, N.C. - Several mobile homes on the North Carolina coast damaged by the storms.
Washington - Sailors attached to cermonial guard unit run through the street of nation's capital during the pouring rain as Irene approached.
Boynton Beach, FL - Isabella Lugli braces herself as a wave burst on to a pier at Florida's Boynton Beach inlet.
People waits to enter a temporary shelter in New York.
Dagsboro, Del. - More than 275 people and ride out the storm at this America Red Cross shelter at Indian River High School.
People on the subway while evacuation from Jersey City, N.J.
New York - A Metropolitan Transportation Authority employee fills Artificial barrier known as an AquaDam on Long Island Railroad tracks at Penn Station. The barrier was installed to help keep floodwaters from Penn Station's tunnels.
Workers place sandbags in front of New York Stock Exchange.
A conductor prepares to close the doors of the last subway train out of Conway Island, an area under mandatory evacuation order in advance of Hurricane Irene.
Cape Hatteras, N.C. - A truck plows through a flooded roadway in Cape Hatteras National Seashore.
Virginia Beach, Va. - As Hurricane Irene spins north, a lone figure stands in the surf of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel.
New York - Workers board up windows at a Sprint store in Flatiron Building.
Norfolk, Va. - Flood waters from the Lafayette River.
Rockaway beach, New York.
With the Mahattan Bridge and the lower Manhattan skyline in the background, a U-haul truck makes its way in the FDR drive in the torrential rain.
Nags Head, N.C. - A abandoned beach front houses are surrounded by rising water as the effects of Hurricane Irene are felt.
Norfolk, Va. - Residents walk along the beach in the Willowby Spit area.
Morehead city, N.C. - Waters lap at the foundation of a house along Calico Creek.
Virginia Beach, VA - Visitors play as Hurricane Irene passes Virginia Beach, Saturday.
Nags Head, N.C. - A row of beach front houses, some condemned before the arrival of Hurricane Irene, get lashed by wind, rain and rising ocean.
East Hampton Village N.Y. - East Hampton Beach lifeguard Bob Barber places a warning tape on a public beach as Irene approaches Long Island in East Hampton Village.
Powleys Island, S.C. - The sun breaks through as surfers hit the ocean Saturday morning off of Powleys Island after Irene moved through the area.
Wilmington N.C. - The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite image, taken and released on Aug.26, 2011, show Hurricane Irene approaches Outer Banks of North Carolina.
A surfer in Jacksonville Beach Florida on Aug.26.
Isle of Palms, S.C.
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