Residents begin returning to NYC, other areas
(NEWSER) - Hours after Hurricane (or Tropical Storm, depending on your location) Irene hit New York , the worst appears to be over: NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg says the 370,000 residents he ordered to evacuate from their homes in low-lying parts of the city can now return. Some people had already begun making their way back early, and others never left to begin with, the AP notes. Though water submerged parts of a Manhattan promenade and a marina in front of the New York Mercantile Exchange, and some floodwater reached the streets of Manhattan and Queens, some cabbies continued offering taxi service and the city escaped the widespread damage it had feared. The evacuation orders for Atlantic City and other parts of the New Jersey shore , Delaware , and parts of Virginia and Maryland were also being lifted today. More»
