Bloomberg: NYC evacuees can soon return home
By DAVID B. CARUSO and COLLEEN LONG, Associated Press
Aug 28, 2011 12:46 PM CDT
Bloomberg: NYC evacuees can soon return home
The streets of New York are nearly empty as Hurricane Irene approaches the region with wind and rain early Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. Irene has the potential to cause billions of dollars in damage all along a densely populated arc that includes Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Boston and beyond....   (Associated Press)

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says residents who had been ordered out of their homes in low-lying areas will be allowed to return Sunday afternoon.

Bloomberg says the evacuation order put in place for Hurricane Irene will be lifted as of 3 p.m. He had ordered more than 370,000 people out of those areas. They were mostly in lower Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens.

Not everyone waited, and people had already started making their way back to their homes. Some defied the order and didn't evacuate in the first place.

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