Most Atlantic City casinos will shut down by 8 p.m. Friday – and will likely stay closed through the weekend – as the resort town battens down the hatches in anticipation of the arrival of Hurricane Irene.
Hurricane Irene already is leaving its mark on the sports world even before coming ashore.
Professional baseball games, the NFL, tennis, golf and Major League Soccer games are being rescheduled as the hurricane creeps up the East Coast.
Hurricane Irene ‘extremely dangerous’, warns Barack ObamaPresident urges people in projected path of hurricane to ‘take precautions now. Don’t wait. Don’t delay’
Barack Obama has warned Americans to take hurricane Irene seriously and urged them to obey orders to evacuate from the path of what is likely to be an “extremely dangerous and costly” storm.
“All indications point to this being a historic hurricane,” Obama said in a statement to reporters from Martha’s Vineyard, an island off the coast of Cape Cod in Massachusetts.
Fifty-five million people are potentially in Irene’s path, from the Carolinas to Cape Cod on the US east coast, and tens of thousands are evacuating as cities including New York brace for the powerful storm to hit.
“I cannot stress this highly enough. If you are in the projected path of this hurricane, you have to take precautions now. Don’t wait. Don’t delay,” Obama said.
The White House said Obama would depart from his vacation in Martha’s Vineyard on Friday evening, one day earlier than planned, and return to Washington.
