Public transport returned to normal in the metropolitan Washington, DC, and in most states of the East Coast of the United States after Hurricane Irene, but on Thursday September 1 were flooded and many villages thousands of homes stillwithout electricity.
At least 46 people died from the storm, which swept the Caribbean and theeastern coast before hitting Canada. Of these, at least nine are of Latin origin,authorities confirmed. In addition, there were four deaths in Virginia and two inMaryland.
In Maryland, Virginia and DC, which were declared "disaster areas" by PresidentBarack Obama, took urgent steps to restore the service of electric lighting. There are still hundreds of homes without power, especially those further away.
The Metro system and urban passenger transport operating normally on Tuesday30, after they did it in part on Monday.
In New York, where residents prepared for the worst, the subway system and buses back to work again just for rush hour on Monday, although initially only partially.
But in northern New Jersey and Vermont were the worst floods in a century,according to their respective governors.
In many cases, the moment of greatest danger came long after the storm passedto grow the rivers and streams by rain, turning them into dangerous torrents. Ireneshowed up to 28 centimeters (11 inches) of rain in Vermont and more than 33centimeters (13 inches) in parts of New Jersey and New York.
The death toll in the 11 eastern states increased at least 40, mostly because oftrees killed or electrocuted by cables detached
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