Stinson family devastated by loss of cottage in Nags Head, North Carolina Homes and hundreds ... where evacuations had not been made National Hurricane Center forecasting 'record flooding' in ...

Irene peaked as a Category 3 hurricane before making several landfalls in the Bahamas. It then downgraded to a Category 1 when it made landfall again on the Outer Banks in North Carolina on August 27.

Hurricane Irene was a large and powerful Atlantic ... It made landfall over Eastern North Carolina's Outer Banks on the morning of August 27, and moved along southeastern Virginia, affecting ...