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Irene brings gasoline shortages, power outages

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20110826

NEW YORK - East Coast res­i­dents braced for pow­er out­ages and rushed to top off their gas tanks as Hur­ri­cane Irene swept clos­er to the re­gion yes­ter­day. Pow­er plants, re­finer­ies and pipelines pre­pared to shut down and util­i­ty re­pair crews gath­ered equip­ment to fix downed pow­er lines. Gaso­line sta­tions along the East Coast be­gan to run dry Fri­day. Util­i­ty of­fi­cials and fore­cast­ers say mil­lions of peo­ple are in dan­ger of los­ing elec­tric pow­er, some for days. An­a­lysts do not ex­pect wide­spread or long-last­ing gas short­ages, though, and they and they don't ex­pect prices for pow­er and gas to rise.

An un­usu­al­ly large num­ber of peo­ple may be af­fect­ed by Irene. That's be­cause it is fore­cast to stay just off­shore-and thus re­tain much of its pow­er-as it inch­es up the coast from North Car­oli­na to New Eng­land. When a hur­ri­cane hits land, it quick­ly los­es steam. Irene could reach North Car­oli­na's Out­er Banks on Sat­ur­day with winds around 100 mph (160 kph), then head up the coast. Fore­cast­ers say Irene is not strength­en­ing, as they had ini­tial­ly feared, but it re­mains dan­ger­ous. The en­tire East­ern Seaboard lies in the storm's pro­ject­ed path, with flood­ing and wind dam­age like­ly. North Car­oli­na, Vir­ginia, Mary­land, New Jer­sey, New York, Con­necti­cut and Rhode Is­land have de­clared emer­gen­cies. New York City is­sued evac­u­a­tion or­ders to 270,000 peo­ple in low-ly­ing ar­eas.

AP


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