ATLANTA,None — As Hurricane Irene continues up the Eastern Seaboard, the regional FEMA command center says its main concern is flooding.
Getting a lot of rain dumped on the Carolina's right now, FEMA Regional Response Coordination Director Ginger Edwards said.
FEMAs efforts were focused on North Carolina Saturday night. Once the winds die down in a few hours, assessment teams will pour into the area and send reports back to the DeKalb County emergency center.
We will be getting resource requests from the state through here and try to push out any supplies or commodities from here that the disaster survivors may need, Edwards said.
In Atlanta, the biggest effects can be felt at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, where stranded passengers wait as airlines juggle flights to avoid Irene.
Delta canceled about 11 percent of its flights through Monday. Airtran said it's canceled 308 flights through Monday as well. As a group, airlines have canceled more than 9,000 flights nationwide this weekend.
And it's not just air travel that's hit hard. Tracey Merriwether got stuck on a cruise boat as Irene churned through the Caribbean and Atlantic.
We were on the ocean for two days and it was horrifying. The huge ship was rocking. People were crying. I was crying, Merriwether said. We spent 15 hours in Orlando airport and we just landed in Atlanta airport. Thank god we made it.
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