New York did not panic and slowly evacuated in anticipation of Hurricane

By eight pm local time on Friday to empty housing for veterans hospital on First Avenue in lower Manhattan. Evacuation looked casually – patients within days of one-two left the hospital walls, they were transported to their homes or other medical facilities. "I personally heading home. No panic there. I'm ready for a hurricane – at home have batteries for the radio, candles, water, dry rations "- RIA Novosti said leaving the hospital an elderly man over invalid elektrokreslom which developed just two flags – the Stars and Stripes and the black, meaning that he was in the military captivity. He was one of the last left the hospital wards. The most recent members of the medical staff were leaving. Hurricane with a beautiful woman's name "Irene" close to the eastern U.S. coast on Saturday morning. The first will be on its way North Carolina. U.S. capital a hurricane, is expected to reach on Sunday. In more than eight millionth of New York expects to incur on Saturday in the evening. The city authorities have announced that at noon on public transport, including all branches of the underground subway stops its work. At eight o'clock on Saturday will be announced, expects a mandatory additional residents relocated. Under the threat of an emergency evacuation area is Brighton Beach, where the compact live outputs of the former Soviet Union. The area became a zone of risk – with the highest threat of danger. The upper part of New York seems strangely quiet and deserted, the roads are much smaller cars than usual on Friday – apparently New Yorkers prefer to move ahead in a safer place. Wall Street looks beleaguered financial symbol for the U.S. – street Wall Street, located a few hundred meters from the East River and the Gulf, prepared for the elements of the old-fashioned – the foundation of the New York Stock Exchange is coated with sand bags. The same plain barricade are seen in other office buildings in the financial district. They lay showcases shops and small restaurants. "Hurry no. Panic. But no one knows what to expect, "- said a worker is removed from the flagpole of a bank giant flags that can be disrupted by the wind, which would bring hurricane. Along with the usual cops on Wall Street have already appeared the men police special – in black uniforms and helmets with rifles at the ready. City remembers as "blackout" – or the lack of electricity in July 1977 for a total of 24 hours – led to mass looting and arson in the city. Then the townspeople in the outlying areas destroyed and devastated large supermarkets and shops of electrical engineering. Because, probably, in the last hours before the hurricane, in New York by many e have taken care to strengthen doors and locks of their houses: just in case. In contrast to the carefree wandering tourists, owners of small businesses in the downtown metropolis not hide concern. "To be honest, anxious heart. No matter what the world would zastrahueshsya "- shared fears of cheap Chinese shop owner" ocean view ", which now no one happy. Above the Lower Manhattan – one of the most vulnerable to the elements of the city – spread the sound of hammers: Working strengthen awnings, signage, and anything that can be disrupted by the vortex. The city opened a subway station in the border areas, rapolozhennyh the ocean for free travel to all Wishing to leave the danger zone before a possible announcement of forced evacuation.