NEW YORK, U.S.A. - According to recent reports, the death toll from Hurricane Irene's onslaught on the East Coast of the United States has risen to 46, as the tropical storm makes its way to eastern Canada.
Twenty five people were killed across eight states of the United States by toppled trees and other hurricane-related incidents.
New York emptied its streets and subways and waited with an eerie quiet. Washington braced for the onslaught, too, as did Philadelphia, the New Jersey shore and the Boston metropolitan area. Packing wind gusts of 115 mph, the hurricane had an enormous wingspan - 500 miles - and threatened a swath of the nation inhabited by 65 million people.- The hurricane stirred up 7-foot waves, and
forecasters warned of storm-surge danger on the coasts of Virginia and Delaware, along the Jersey Shore and in New York Harbor and Long Island Sound. Across the Northeast, drenched by rain this summer, the ground is already saturated, raising the risk of flooding as well as the danger of trees falling onto homes and power lines. - Moreover, the storm left some 4.5 million households and business units in the US without power and inflicted an estimated USD 7 to 13 billion in damage. The US State of Vermont witnessed seven inches of rain early Monday.
Irene has now reached Canada after leaving a trail of destruction across the northeastern US. Strong winds battered parts of Canada's Quebec and the Atlantic provinces on Monday morning.
However, the US National Hurricane Center has downgraded Hurricane Irene to a post-tropical cyclone.
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