It’s an actual photo published in our local paper this morning, depicting the “storm damage.” There were others much worse, but the lighting in those gave the impression of late afternoon. I strongly suspect those were taken during last Wednesday’s thunder storm here, which was more severe than Irene’s gentle soaking day long rain.
Again it looks like media misinformation. It’s like get us something horrific even though nothing really happened. I don’t believe anything I see in the media and nothing that I read - as Mark Twain wrote “If you don’t read the newspapers you are uninformed. If you do, you are misinformed”