Photo: AP A New York City taxi is stranded in deep water on Manhattan’s West Side as Tropical Storm Irene passes through the city, in New York August 28, 2011
How about paraphrasing and linking the following sentences using the connectors above?
1. The storm came ashore in the biggest U.S. city as a tropical storm. It did not cause the widespread damage that was feared.
2. Anxious city residents didn't get a good night's sleep. Irene battered this city of more than eight-million people all through Saturday afternoon and continued through the night.
3. Judy Sayegh, of Brooklyn, said she was concerned that her basement would flood. “I woke up many times during the night to check that water was not coming into my cellar from my backyard because of the heavy rains and the wind. I was very relieved to see that my cellar was dry.”
4. Irene brought with her flood waters in some low-lying areas. Ultimately Irene did not live up to weather forecasters' worst fears.
5. When Irene hit Coney Island, the U.S. Weather reported her winds fell just short of the 119-kilometers per hour required for hurricane strength. Irene was downgraded to a tropical storm.
6. Most New Yorkers took the storm seriously. Some threw Irene parties on Saturday.
7. Brooklyn resident Jean McKenna said: “Well, I tried not to worry about it too much because we have had these situations before when they predict big storms or big events of some sort and then they come to nothing. I mean, you want to be prepared of course, but you do not want to overdo it.”
8. In New York, Con Edison, the power company, said 1,700 workers worked through the storm to try to maintain electricity. They wanted to help residents keep the lights and air conditioners on.
