40 dead from Tropical Storm 'Irene'

40 dead from Tropical Storm 'Irene' which may did not hit New York but has been hit with particular vehemence other areas of the United States.
Especially great are the problems in the area of Vermont, near the U.S. border with Canada, with local authorities to talk aboutthe worst storm of the last 100 years. At least 30,000 householdshave no electricity. Overall throughout the East Coast problems with their electricity supply with more than 5 million households, while Obama B. Obama warned that it will take some time torecover full damages. According to many news agenciesbroadcast the Hurricane "Irene" caused a loss of 7-10 billionU.S. dollars, an amount that despite the height can not be compared with 100 billion losses estimated to have caused the hurricane "Katrina", which was razed to New Orleans.