Egész este erősen fújt a szél, szerencsére nem történt semmi komoly, mindenki rendben van és a ház is egyben van. Még elég erősen fúj a szél, de a nehezén már túl vagyunk és a gyerekek tegnap a buliban nagyobb rendetlenséget csináltak mint a hurrikán összesen. :)
The wind was blowing really strong last night, but everything and everybody is ok and the house too. :)
The wind is still strong, but I think we are over of the worst part and the kids last night made a bigger mess than Irene all together. :D
Ocean City, Maryland (CNN) -- After knocking out power to more than 3 million people and making a second landfall Sunday morning, Irene hurtled toward some of the biggest cities in the Northeast.
Irene slammed into Little Egg Inlet, New Jersey, about 5:30 a.m., the National Hurricane Center said.
Earlier Sunday, the hurricane pummeled Ocean City, Maryland while en route to New York City, threatening to flood parts of Manhattan and bring the bustling city to a virtual standstill.
Some sections of Ocean City were without power, and officials stopped sending vehicles to respond to 911 calls after winds topped 50 mph, said Bob Rhode of the city's office of emergency management.
But Ocean City appears to have endured the blows without any major damage. While Irene dumped 11 inches of rain by early Sunday morning, there was no major flooding.
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In New York, streets in "the city that never sleeps" looked barren and desolate as residents braced for the full brunt of Irene.
Throughout the city, shelves upon empty shelves greeted last-minute shoppers at stores. Caution tapes barricaded the turnstiles at subway stops.
Allysia Matthews and her husband holed up in their Manhattan apartment Sunday morning.
"The streets in general tend to start flooding" during rainfall, Matthews said. "We've been staying at home because there's really no way to get around."
By 5 a.m. ET Sunday, Irene was about 15 miles south-southeast of Atlantic City, New Jersey, and about 115 miles south-southwest of New York City, according to the National Hurricane Center. It was moving north-northeast at 18 mph and carried maximum sustained winds of 75 mph.
Powerful gusts were so strong that pedestrians struggled to stay upright. Storm surges along the East Coast turned at least one beach into an extension of the ocean.
A nuclear power reactor in Calvert Cliffs, Maryland, automatically went offline late Saturday after a piece of aluminum siding from a building struck a transformer amid strong winds.
"The facility is safe; there is no impact to employees or our neighbors," said Mark Sullivan, spokesman for the Constellation Energy Nuclear Group. "There is no threat."
In New Jersey, ferocious winds blew tree branches horizontally. But George Nikolis of Jersey City insisted on riding out the storm.
"You only see something like this maybe once every 25 years, and I wanted to be here to capture this historic moment," Nikolis said.
Officials have blamed at least 10 deaths on Irene.
Five people died as a result of the storm in North Carolina, and three were killed in Virginia due to falling trees, emergency officials said.
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