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Last Updated on Saturday, 27 August 2011 09:41 Written by admin courtesy of yahoonews Friday, 26 August 2011 21:10

Irene was expected to make landfall in North Carolina on Saturday, then roll along the East Coast before hitting near Manhattan on Sunday.

"Waiting until the last minute is not a smart thing to do," Bloomberg said. "This is life-threatening."It was the first time part of the nation's largest city was evacuated. And never before has the entire mass transit system been shuttered because of a storm. Despite not knowing how the city would react, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he was confident people would get out of the storm's way.More than 300,000 people were told Friday to evacuate and New York ordered buses, planes and its entire subway system shut down as Hurricane Irene marched up the East Coast.

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