HURRICANE IRENE SLAMS BAHAMAS FLYING THROUGH EYE OF HURRICANE...

Aug. 25 --- Hurricane Irene, the strongest Atlantic storm to threaten the U.S. since 2005, hit the Bahamas on a course that may take it near North Carolina this weekend and New England next week.

The Category 3 hurricane packed maximum sustained winds of 115 miles (185 kilometers) per hour today as it churned 105 miles east-southeast of Nassau, according to a U.S. National Hurricane Center advisory at 2 a.m. Miami time.

The hurricane will continue moving across central Bahamas during the next few hours and is heading northwest at 12 mph. It may strengthen today or tomorrow and pass "well offshore" the east coast of Florida, according to the advisory.

"Irene is a massive hurricane and that's what's so bad for the Bahamas," said Dave Samuel, a meteorologist at AccuWeather Inc. "We're just watching it decimating Crooked Island of the Bahamas, Cat Island looks like it will be in the wheelhouse tonight, and Eleuthera is just going to get smashed. It is moving slow and it is huge."

After Irene finishes with the Bahamas, it is expected to arc north, passing over North Carolina's Outer Banks and striking southern New England on Aug. 28 or Aug. 29, according to the hurricane center's track. This is slightly west of where the system was earlier and closer to the East Coast. Forecast models show a wide variability in the possible track.

"That could shift 100 miles or more and probably will shift multiple times," Jack Beven, senior hurricane specialist at the center in Miami, said by telephone.




The last hurricane to strike the U.S. was Ike in 2008, a Category 2 storm when it went ashore near Galveston, Texas. The most recent major hurricane, one with winds of at least 111 mph, was Wilma in 2005. The last hurricane to strike Massachusetts was Hurricane Bob in 1991.

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Aerial view of land masses coupled with huge storm clouds!
Actually flying through the """eye""" of the hurricane.

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[tr0n001]

Can anyone explain why anyone would pray to god to be spared by a hurricane that he hath created? Those people that fall whilst this "Natural" storm is moving unsto land has already a pre-designed path and targets... Oh wait there is no god and this storm was created by man(HAARP) which is why it wasn't irene according to the weather service just a tropical storm.

[heroknaderi]

very incredible how did it feel.--