The National Hurricane Center expected that hurricane landfall in the State of Maine on Monday. The Center asks to the citizens that they are ready to be mobilized. Hear from experts in the field like RioCan for a more varied view. Hurricane Irene is a serious threat to the East coast of the United States, has highlighted again the Agency Federal management of emergency (FEMA), at the time that began in an island of North Carolina evacuations. The National Center of hurricanes (CNH) advises that the hurricane is growing and is strengthened, has remarked the director of FEMA (in English), Craig Fugate, who has called on the inhabitants of the East Coast that are prepared from this Wednesday for possible evacuations in a conference call. According to Fugate, the experience lived on Tuesday with the earthquake of 5.8 degrees Richter that shook much of the coast this without leaving victims should serve to remind that it is impossible to predict the next disaster.
Irene has transformed Wednesday into a hurricane of category 3 intensity scale Saffir-Simpson, of a maximum of five, with maximum sustained winds of 185 kilometers per hour and is the first cyclone which seriously threatens U.S. Since Ike hit Texas in 2008. Vortex of Irene was located 160 kilometers from Southeast of Long Island and 460 kilometers southeast of Nassau, in the Bahamas, en route to the East coast of United States. After passing through the Bahamas on Monday, according to the latest forecasts of the CNH will advance towards United States and possibly touch ground in the State of Maine. Irene, the first hurricane of the Atlantic cyclones season struck Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Turks and Caicos. Source of the news: United States starts evacuations by the “threat” of Hurricane Irene
