Hurricane Irene pictures

It’s been a weekend of high emotion - from the joy of revellers splashing about in the puddles of New York’s Times Square, to the despair of those whose homes were destroyed in North Carolina.

Hurricane Irene has brought havoc to the U.S. East Coast as four million people lost power, hundreds of thousands were evacuated and more than 15 lives were taken.

MailOnline has documented a remarkable weekend in pictures, with some of the best photos to show how some of the 65 million affected Americans coped with freak weather conditions

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