Riding Out the Storm

Hurricane Irene spawned more than just a few tornados. For a look at how college students rode out the storm, check out some of the best Hurricane Irene videos posted on YouTube (so far).

• Hoosic River swallows Cole Field!: A Williams College Geoscience student documents flood conditions and gives an interesting lesson on ground saturation. “This footage is incredible.”
  


• Hurricane Fun!!: One lone student at Old Dominion University passes the time skim boarding across the campus lawn.
  


• Hurricane Irene 2011: A student documents the substantial destruction sustained on the East Carolina campus and struggles to keep the camera steady in high winds.



• Hurricane Irene on Washington College Campus: The morning after the hurricane, a survey of campus showed windswept trees, some fallen branches, and students evacuated to safety.
  


• Hurricane Irene: An incoming freshman at NYU expresses her frustration with the delay in move-in day to the tune of Dolly Parton’s Jolene (the outtakes are priceless). “Please don’t come here just because you can.”
  


• Hurricane Slip’n’Slide: Freshmen from RPI’s Nason Hall make the best of a bad situation and get busted!
  


• Irene 2011: Hurricane Irene hits Roger Williams University and “Irene’s a polluter.” One brave student dons a Santa Hat and goes for a swim—in the parking lot.



• Temple Tuff: Facing Hurricane Irene: To the tune of Riders on the Storm, Temple University students survive the storm and an earthquake in one week—mud sliding, dancing and splashing in the rain. “It’s unbelievable.”



• The Storm Chasers: At an unidentified east coast university, undergrads make creative use of their time surviving the storm, "In the Eye of the Tiger."



• Wagner College rides out Hurricane Irene: There was plenty of water and food AND a super slumber party atmosphere. Wagner’s president and provost spent the night with the 375 students evacuated to the Spiro Sports Center.

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