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A news item involving Hurricane Irene was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the In the news section on 26 August 2011.

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Section sizes

Section size for Hurricane Irene (41 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	4,467	4,467
Meteorological history	18,954	18,954
Preparations	18	54,322
Caribbean	3,715	3,715
Mainland United States	6,295	50,361
Southeast	8,628	8,628
Mid-Atlantic	25,417	25,417
New England	10,021	10,021
Canada	228	228
Impact	2,219	109,172
Lesser Antilles	6,168	6,168
Greater Antilles	24	20,631
Puerto Rico	9,428	9,428
Hispaniola	9,327	9,327
Cuba	1,852	1,852
Turks and Caicos and the Bahamas	6,976	6,976
United States	4,083	71,009
Southeast	18	17,399
Florida	4,372	4,372
South Carolina	1,841	1,841
North Carolina	8,275	8,275
Virginia	2,893	2,893
Mid-Atlantic states	1,301	30,853
Maryland	2,613	2,613
Delaware	3,182	3,182
Pennsylvania	3,030	3,030
New Jersey	12,885	12,885
New York	7,842	7,842
New England	21	18,674
Connecticut	5,428	5,428
Massachusetts	2,543	2,543
Rhode Island	3,113	3,113
Vermont	6,513	6,513
Maine	1,056	1,056
Canada	2,169	2,169
Aftermath	54	8,460
New England	8,406	8,406
Retirement	1,216	1,216
See also	1,749	1,749
References	33	33
External links	2,816	2,816
Total	201,189	201,189