Irene makes landfall on quiet, anxious NYC
Source: The Oklahoman - Aug 28, 2011 at 9:48 AM
NEW YORK (AP) — Rainfall overflowed sewers and seawater lapped at sidewalks at the edges of New York City from densely populated lower Manhattan to the far reaches of Queens as a weakening Irene made landfall over Coney Island early Sunday.
Ocean water streamed into the main streets of the Rockaways, a peninsula in Queens that Mayor Michael Bloomberg had ordered evacuated.
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