Irene Expected to Be a Huge Jerk

When even Jersey Shore residents are evacuating, you know it’s a situation.

Despite its deceptively sweet name, Americans are bracing themselves for the worst hurricane to hit the Northeast since the release of Back to The Future (or 1985, if you are chronically unhip). Old age homes and hospitals are being evacuated as Hurricane Irene is expected to affect roughly one in five Americans, according to Bloomberg News (and Bloomberg Mayor). The governors of Delaware, Connecticut, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, and Virginia have declared a state of emergency, and Ottawa released a travel advisory Friday morning urging Canadians not to travel to the East Coast of the U.S. unless they want to experience a scene from a Denzel Washington movie.

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