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It wasn't a hurricane, but it acted like one. Raging across Florida's Big Bend, leaving a trail of destruction, thousands ...

Hurricane Irene was a large and powerful Atlantic hurricane ... Curving toward the north, Irene skirted past Florida with its outer bands producing tropical-storm-force winds.

One death reported in Connecticut, Maryland and Florida, five in North Carolina ... More than two million people without power as Hurricane Irene pummels North Carolina and Virginia Conditions ...

Hurricane Irene posed a potential threat to the entire U.S. East Coast from Florida to New England, U.S. officials said on Tuesday, as forecasters tried to predict where the powerful storm might ...