New York, Aug 30 (IANS) Actor Alec Baldwin returned to his New York home after evacuating the city in order to avoid hurricane Irene.

Hurricane Irene slammed New York city Sunday, leaving the Big Apple without power in some 85,000 homes, including nearly 21,000 in Queens with the largest concentration of Indian Americans in the US.

And in a bid to avoid the storm, Baldwin fled to his East Hampton bolthole, reports contactmusicom.

‘Just arrived back into a post-Irene NY. I found the hurricane…..draining,’ the 53-year-old posted on micro-blogging site Twitter.