{"id":8977,"date":"2011-08-28T09:29:53","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T13:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/i-heart-ny\/2011\/08\/come-on-irene.html"},"modified":"2017-11-08T11:45:20","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T16:45:20","slug":"come-on-irene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/i-heart-ny\/2011\/08\/come-on-irene\/","title":{"rendered":"Come On Irene!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nBrett & I’ve been watching the weather reports for days and knew that Hurricane Irene was scheduled to arrive in New York over the weekend. Unfortunately, that’s when my parents were headed up this way too.<\/p>\n

The elder Flanigan’s travel plans for a Labor Day holiday visit ended up being a bit re-routed when airports along the East Coast began shutting down because of the impending storm. Thankfully, Southwest Airlines was able to book them on an earlier flight and they safely made it to Albany without having to change planes in Baltimore.<\/p>\n

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We took a little tour around the Capital Region to check out what kind of damage the Hurricane-turn-Tropical Storm left. Thankfully, it wasn’t too bad. Just a lot of rain and a few limbs down.<\/p>\n

Here’s some video that I shot from the doorway:<\/p>\n