Residents and tourists in Montauk, New York, ventured out to the beach Saturday morning to get a glimpse of some of the waves and wind from Hurricane Irene which was still hundreds of miles away on Aug. 27.

Video from the highest point of the tide on the south shore of long island. Surge was about 4 to feet. No water in my house but my garage was flooded and many of my neighbors south of my house were flooded also. The boats where fine.

Forecasters say Irene's sustained hurricane-force winds have slammed into the North Carolina coast. Irene is expected to continue churning its way up the U.S. East Coast through some of the most densely populated areas of the United States.(Aug. 27).

Hurricane Irene weakened early Saturday as it made its way toward Virginia, but residents of coastal towns like Virginia Beach are preparing for the worst.

Video taken at 6.30 25th August 2011 in Nassau Bahamas. The hurricane at that stage was 2 hours from passing Nassau.

One casualty of flooding from Hurricane Irene was the 141-year-old Bartonsville Covered Bridge, an historic landmark in Vermont built by Sanford Granger, caught on camera as it was swept away by floodwaters.

The Sanibel Causeway was destroyed by the Ian hurricane storm, cutting off access to the barrier island on Florida on September 28, 2022.

Two residents from St. Martin island's two nations, the French St. Martin and the Dutch St. Maarten, describe Hurricane Irma’s destruction during a direrct hit to the island in September, 2017.

Millions of people are facing a long, difficult road to recovery after Irma’s week-long deadly rampage through the Caribbean and southeastern United States.

Torrential rains from Tropical Storm Irene forced hundreds in the Hudson Valley from their homes, caused widespread power outages, washed out 137 miles of th...