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By: Nubiagroup (8 month(s) ago)

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By: nagyworldcup (8 month(s) ago)

very good

 
By: Nubiagroup (8 month(s) ago)

Thank you :)

 
 

By: Nubiagroup (9 month(s) ago)

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By: Thewhizzer (9 month(s) ago)

Great PPS of this tragic event

 
By: Nubiagroup (9 month(s) ago)

Thank you - thanks God the "hurricane" was less hard than expected ..

 

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Slide 2: 

WILMINGTON NC, United States — This National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite image, taken and released on August 26, 2011, shows Hurricane Irene approaching the Outer Banks of North Carolina as it tracks northward along the U.S. Eastern coastline. The United States urged 55 million people on its eastern seaboard to prepare for Hurricane Irene as the powerful storm packing high winds and heavy rain bore down on the North Carolina coast. REUTERS /NOAA/Handout

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A surfer in Jacksonville Beach, Florida, tries to position himself to ride between the pillars of a pier as Hurricane Irene moves up the eastern coast, Friday, Aug. 26, 2011. - PHOTOGRAPH BY: Jon M. Fletcher / The Florida Times-Union

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A surfer braves the wind and waves at The Washout at Folly Beach created by Hurricane Irene, on August 26, 2011 in Folly Beach, South Carolina. (AP Photo/The Post And Courier, Sarah Bates)

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A NASA Goddard Space Flight Center handout photo taken by an Expedition 28 crew member aboard the International Space Station shows an image of Hurricane Irene off the east coast of the United States around 4:30 p.m. EDT, on August 26, 2011. (Reuters/NASA/Expedition 28 - ISS/Goddard Space Flight Center/Handout)

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A shopper passes by empty shelves while looking for bottled water at a Stop and Shop at Rockaway Beach in New York, on August 26, 2011. (Reuters/Allison Joyce)

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Elijah Gothard, left, and Amanda Tanguay, right, interns at the Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center in Topsail Island, help move turtles out of the center before the worst of Hurricane Irene hits the island, on August 26, 2011, in Surf City, North Carolina. (AP Photo/The Wilmington Star-News, Matt Born)

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Washington — Sailors attached to a cermonial guard unit run through the streets of the nation's capital during a pouring rain as Hurricane Irene approached. PHOTOGRAPH BY: Win McNamee / Getty Images

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Boynton Beach FL, United States — Isabella Lugli braces herself as a wave bursts onto a pier at Florida's Boynton Beach inlet, as Hurricane Irene approaches the United States. PHOTOGRAPH BY: Joe Raedle / Getty Images

Slide 10: 

A surfer takes advantage of the storm surge kicked up by Hurricane Irene in Montauk, New York August 27, 2011. Hurricane Irene charged up the U.S. East Coast on Saturday towards New York, shutting down the city, and millions of Americans sought shelter from a huge storm that halted transport and caused massive power blackouts. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

Slide 11: 

Tourists walk by the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial as the wind and rain from Hurricane Irene reaches Washington, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011. The dedication of the memorial scheduled from Sunday has been postponed because of the approaching hurricane. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)

Slide 12: 

Boats sit in an almost empty channel as Hurricane Irene pushes the water out in to Albemarle Sound, on August 27, 2011 in Nags Head, North Carolina, (AP Photo/The News & Observer, Shawn Rocco)

Slide 13: 

A Cape May police officer, second from left, talks with a group of surfers on the boardwalk early Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011, in Cape May, N.J. The surfers came to ride waves in a stormy Atlantic, as Hurricane Irene approaches. Hurricane warnings were issued from North Carolina to New York, and evacuation orders covered about 2.3 million people, including 1 million in New Jersey, 315,000 in Maryland, 300,000 in North Carolina, 200,000 in Virginia and 100,000 in Delaware. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

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Pawleys Island, S.C. — The sun breaks through as surfers hit the ocean Saturday morning off of Pawleys Island, S.C., after Hurricane Irene moved through the area and traveled north along the eastern Atlantic coast. PHOTOGRAPH BY: Steve Jessmore / The Sun-News

Slide 15: 

People stand at the end of a street Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011, in Cape May, N.J., looking at a stormy Atlantic as Hurricane Irene arrives. Hurricane-force winds and drenching rains from Irene battered the North Carolina coast early Saturday as the storm began its potentially catastrophic run up the Eastern Seaboard. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

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Asbury Park, N.J. — Brian Grant and Bob Bianchini, engineers from the public works department out for a safety inspection, are slammed by waves and storm surge pounding the seashore at first light Sunday. PHOTOGRAPH BY: Chip East / Reuters

Slide 17: 

An employee in boards up the windows of a store in Amagansett, August 27, 2011. New York City ordered unprecedented evacuations and transit shutdowns as states from the Carolinas to Maine declared emergencies due to hurricane Irene, whose 520 mile width guaranteed a stormy weekend for tens of millions of people. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

Slide 18: 

A sign on the boarded up windows of a home near the beach reads Come on Irene, as Hurricane Irene approaches, in Asbury Park, N.J., August 27, 2011. Hurricane Irene charged up the U.S. East Coast on Saturday towards New York, shutting down the city, and millions of Americans sought shelter from a huge storm that halted transport and caused massive power blackouts. REUTERS/Chip East

Slide 19: 

U.S. President Barack Obama listens to a video teleconference about Hurricane Irene during a visit to the National Response Coordination Center at FEMA Headquarters in Washington August 27, 2011. Obama held a conference call on Saturday with emergency officials to discuss Hurricane Irene, which was targeting the U.S. East Coast, the White House said. Flanking Obama are Homeland Security Secretary Jan Napolitano (L) and FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Slide 20: 

Washington DC — President Obama gets an update on the status of Hurricane Irene at the Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters in Washington Saturday. PHOTOGRAPH BY: J. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press

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NEW YORK — Workers place sandbags in front of the New York Stock Exchange in preparation for the storm. PHOTOGRAPH BY: Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times

Slide 22: 

Waves crash over the shore during high tide during a storm surge from Hurricane Irene in Bayshore, New York, on Long Island, on August 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

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KITTY HAWK, N.C. — Contractor Denis Hromin, who recently did construction work on Avalon Pier, inspects the structure during the onslaught of Hurricane Irene. PHOTOGRAPH BY: JIM LO SCALZO / European Pressphoto Agency

Slide 24: 

New York — With the Manhattan Bridge and the lower Manhattan skyline in the background, a U-Haul truck makes its way north on FDR Drive in the torrential rain. Hurricane Irene opened its assault on the Eastern Seaboard on Saturday by lashing the North Carolina coast with winds as strong as 115 mph and pounding shoreline homes with waves. Farther north, Philadelphia and New York City-area authorities readied a massive shutdown of trains and airports, with 2 million people ordered out of the way. PHOTOGRAPH BY: Mary Altaffer / Associated Press

Slide 25: 

A truck drives through flooded road as Hurricane Irene hits Cape Hatteras National Seashore in Salvo, North Carolina August 27, 2011. Hurricane Irene howled ashore in North Carolina with heavy winds, rain and surf on Saturday on a path threatening the densely populated U.S. East Coast with flooding and power outages. REUTERS/Jose Luis Magana

Slide 26: 

Flood waters caused by Hurricane Irene raise on a residential street in Ocean City, Maryland, August 27, 2011. Irene, packing winds of near 80 miles per hour, was a Category 1 hurricane on the five-step Saffir-Simpson intensity scale and was churning north-northeast at 16 mph, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. REUTERS/Molly Riley

Slide 27: 

Nags Head, N.C. — A row of beachfront houses, some condemned before the arrival of Hurricane Irene, get lashed by wind, rain and the rising ocean. PHOTOGRAPH BY: Jim Lo Scalzo / EPA

Slide 28: 

A travel trailer tipped over into a flooded area on Hwy 55 Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011 in New Bern, N.C. Hurricane Irene knocked out power and piers in North Carolina, clobbered Virginia with wind and churned up the coast Saturday to confront cities more accustomed to snowstorms than tropical storms. New York City emptied its streets and subways and waited with an eerie quiet. (AP Photo/The News & Observer, Chris Seward)

Slide 29: 

Jarod Wilton looks at the flood waters rising to his doorstep, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011, in Alliance, N.C., as Hurricane Irene hits the North Carolina coast. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

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One of two people rescued from a sailboat, right, uses a line to make their way onto the beach on Willoughby Spit in Norfolk Saturday morning, Aug. 27, 2011 after they and another person were rescued from the boat that foundered in the waters of the Chesapeake Bay. A rescuer, left, waits for s second person to exit the boat. (AP Photo/TheVirginian-Pilot, Bill Tiernan)

Slide 31: 

Waves crash along a seawall as Tropical Storm Irene, downgraded from a hurricane, slammed into Fairhaven , Mass. Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. From North Carolina to New Jersey, Hurricane Irene appeared to have fallen short of the doomsday predictions, but more than 4.5 million homes and businesses along the East Coast reportedly lost power, and at least 11 deaths were blamed on the storm. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson)

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Morehead City, N.C. — Waters lap at the foundation of a house along Calico Creek. PHOTOGRAPH BY: Travis Long / NEWS & OBSERVER

Slide 33: 

Waves sweep over a beached sailboat in Bogue Sound as the backside of Hurricane Irene comes ashore near Morehead City, North Carolina, on August 27, 2011. (Reuters/Steve Nesius)

Slide 34: 

Jackie Sparnackel has to abandon her van and her belongings near the Frisco Pier after she drove up to see how the storm-battered structure was doing on August 27, 2011 in Frisco, North Carolina. Friends tried to tow her out but she was caught in an overwash. Hurricane force winds from Irene were battering the island where power has been knocked out. (AP Photo/The News & Observer, Chuck Liddy)

Slide 35: 

Two men use a boat to explore a street flooded by Hurricane Irene Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011 in Manteo, N.C. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

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In this photo provided by the New York State Metropolitan Transportation Authority, two men push a cart through a deserted Grand Central Terminal in New York, on Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011. Metro North suspended service and Amtrak is running on a reduced schedule due to Hurricane Irene. (AP Photo/NY Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Marjorie Anders)

Slide 37: 

A group of people pose for photos on Fifth Avenue while vehicle traffic is light in advance of Hurricane Irene in New York, on Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011. Irene has the potential to cause billions of dollars in damage all along a densely populated arc that includes Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Boston and beyond. At least 65 million people could be affected. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

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New York — A man stands in the center of a nearly deserted 7th Avenue in Manhattan. PHOTOGRAPH BY: Mike Segar / Reuters

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New York — A road sign warns of inclement weather as a pedestrian crosses Canal St. in front of the Manhattan bridge in Lower Manhattan on Saturday. PHOTOGRAPH BY: Mary Altaffer / Associated Press

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Dagsboro, Del. — More than 275 people and 75 pets ride out the storm at this American Red Cross shelter at Indian River High School. PHOTOGRAPH BY: SUCHAT PEDERSON / The News Journal

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The looming threat of Hurricane Irene did not dissuade tourists from visiting Manhattan's Times Square. PHOTOGRAPH BY: John Minchillo / Associated Press

Slide 42: 

A taxi speeds by on 7th Avenue at Times Square in New York as rains fall before Hurricane Irene hits August 27, 2011. Hurricane Irene charged up the U.S. East Coast on Saturday toward New York, shutting down the city, and millions of Americans sought shelter from a huge storm that halted transport and caused massive power blackouts. REUTERS/Peter Jones

Slide 43: 

Two men paddle a boat down a street flooded by Hurricane Irene on August 27, 2011 in Manteo, N.C. (John Bazemore/AP)

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A rainbow appears over a building as sand is blown down Long Beach Park as the sun sets and the sky clears from Hurricane Irene in Long Beach, New York, on August 28, 2011. (Reuters/Lucas Jackson)

Slide 45: 

Lower Manhattan is seen amidst dark clouds in New York, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. Hurricane Irene bore down on a dark and quiet New York early Sunday, bringing winds and rapidly rising seawater that threatened parts of the city. The rumble of the subway system was silenced for the first time in years, the city all but shut down for the strongest tropical lashing since the 1980s. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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Manhattan and the Brooklyn Bridge are hit by Hurricane Irene, in New York, on August 28, 2011. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images)

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A man stands in the middle of a deserted Broadway in Lower Manhattan, New York, early on August 28, 2011 as Hurricane Irene hits the city with rain and high winds. New York City resembled a ghost town after 370,000 people were told to evacuate flood-prone regions, including areas near Wall Street and at Coney Island. (Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images

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New York, NY — A man walks in Times Square as Hurricane Irene arrives in New York, on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. PHOTOGRAPH BY: Mike Groll / AP

Slide 49: 

Lenard Sanders, a homeless man, pushes his cart toward a subway station to seek shelter as Hurricane Irene makes its way along the Eastern Seaboard, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011, in Philadelphia. The National Hurricane Center says a hurricane warning remains in effect from coastal Virginia northward to Sagamore Beach, Mass. The storm remained a Category 1 hurricane and forecasters expect little change in strength before an expected landfall later Sunday. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Slide 50: 

A crayfish walks along a gas station parking lot in Millsboro, Delaware, early Sunday, August 28, 2011. The hurricane unloaded more than a foot of water on North Carolina, spun off tornadoes in Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, and left 3 million homes and businesses without power as it moved up the East Coast. (AP Photo/The Wilmington News-Journal, Suchat Pederson)

Slide 51: 

Betty Walsh, a local resident, crosses a flooded street in Red Hook, on August 28, 2011 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, after Tropical Storm Irene had passed by. (Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)

Slide 52: 

Asbury Park, NJ — Waves and storm surge pound the boardwalk and the beach at first light as Hurricane Irene slams into Asbury Park, New Jersey, August 28, 2011. Hurricane Irene knocked out power to 3.3 million homes and businesses along the U.S. East Coast, forced two nuclear plants to shut and idled oil ports and refining as it approached New York City early on Sunday. REUTERS/Chip East (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENVIRONMENT DISASTER) PHOTOGRAPH BY: CHIP EAST / X01370

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In this photo provided by the New York State Metropolitan Transportation Authority, an MTA employee fills an "AquaDam," placed across the Long Island Rail Road tracks at New York City's Penn Station, on Saturday, August 27, 2011. The temporary barrier was installed to help keep flood waters stirred up by Hurricane Irene out of Penn Station's tunnels. (AP Photo/NY Metropolitan Transportation Authority, John Kettel)

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Abandoned beach front houses are surrounded by rising water as the effects of Hurricane Irene are felt in Nags Head, North Carolina, on August 27, 2011 (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

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A man surveys the damage around a friend's home in the background as a sailboat is washed ashore as Hurricane Irene arrives on August 28, 2011 in Southampton, New York. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Slide 56: 

Waves break along the pier which was damaged during Hurricane Irene, in Ocean City, Maryland, on August 28, 2011. (Reuters/Molly Riley)

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A person searches for anyone who may be occupying the building as raging flood waters from Tropical Storm Irene cross Route 100, closing the main road to traffic in Waitsfield, Vermont, on August 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Sandy Macys)

Slide 58: 

A resident walks through floodwater on Coney Island after Hurricane Irene hit, in New York, on August 28, 2011. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images)

Slide 59: 

A Fairfield Beach Road home is submerged in Pine Creek in Fairfield, Connecticut, as treacherous weather caused by Tropical Storm Irene came through the area on August 28, 2011. (AP Photo/The Connecticut Post, Cathy Zuraw)

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Waterbury, Vt. — North Main Street is underwater in the wake of Irene. Almost 50,000 Vermont utility customers were without power Monday, hundreds of roads were closed and a number of bridges were destroyed by the storm. PHOTOGRAPH BY: GLENN RUSSELL / Free Press

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Rodanthe, N.C. — State Route 12, the main road on Cape Hatteras National Seashore, was severely damaged by the storm. PHOTOGRAPH BY: JOSE LUIS MAGANA / Reuters

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Windsor, Vt. — Water rushes over the Ascutney Mill Dam on Kennedy's Pond. PHOTOGRAPH BY: James M. Patterson / Valley News

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Waterbury, Vt. — Firefighter Mandy Drake clears a storm drain in front of a fire station on Monday. The building was evacuated as high water from the Winooski River flooded downtown. PHOTOGRAPH BY: GLENN RUSSELL / Free Press

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Queens, N.Y. — Ken Smith clears the street in front of his house in the Rockaway Beach section of Queens, N.Y. PHOTOGRAPH BY: JESSICA RINALDI / Reuters

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Arapahoe, N.C. — Spc. Caleb Lowery with the Army National Guard helps clean out a homeowner's hot tub on Sunday. PHOTOGRAPH BY: Chris Seward / Raleigh News and Observer

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MILFORD, Conn. — Nick Krashefski of Milford, Conn., looks out at the water after Hurricane Irene destroyed his home. PHOTOGRAPH BY: Bettina Hansen / Hartford Courant

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Hightstown, NJ — A car sits submerged on Main Street in Hightstown, N.J. Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011 after Peddie Lake overflowed from Hurricane Irene. Businesses and shops along the street were flooded. Flood waters rose all across New Jersey on Sunday, closing roads from side streets to major highways as Hurricane Irene weakened and moved on, leaving 600,000 homes and businesses without power.(AP Photo/Jim Gerberich) PHOTOGRAPH BY: Jim Gerberich / Associated Press

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New York — Emily Santiago, right, leads Sasha Williams and Burton Chirinos as they wade through water on Lower Manhattan's South Street, where Hurricane Irene caused some flooding as the East River spilled over the seawall. PHOTOGRAPH BY: Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times

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New York — Alexis Noa, right, and Efia Senior wade along a flooded South Street. PHOTOGRAPH BY: Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times

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New York — The Noa family, including Alexis Noa, front left, and Nadine Noa, center, along with a friend Efia Senior, right, wade through a flooded South PHOTOGRAPH BY: Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times

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Montauk, N.Y. — Police block the street around a utility pole downed by Hurricane Irene in Montauk on the east end of Long Island in New York. PHOTOGRAPH BY: Peter Foley / European Pressphoto Agency

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Virginia Beach, Va. — Branches litter an alley as a result of Hurricane Irene. PHOTOGRAPH BY: Brendan Hoffman / Getty Images

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New York — Stranded cars are surrounded by flood waters in lower Manhattan. PHOTOGRAPH BY: Mike Segar / Reuters

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Lewes, Del. — A tornado generated by Hurricane Irene touched down Saturday in the Old Orchard Road and New Road area west of Lewes, Del., damaging several homes and uprooting trees. PHOTOGRAPH BY: Chuck Snyder / The Daily Times

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MESIC, N.C. — A Wayne County water rescue team maneuvers around a boat that washed inland onto Highway 304 near Mesic. PHOTOGRAPH BY: Chris Seward / Raleigh News & Observer

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MESIC, N.C. — Floodwaters caused by Hurricane Irene surround homes on Highway 304 near Mesic. A Wayne County water rescue team rescued eight people from the home in the background at right. PHOTOGRAPH BY: Chris Seward / Raleigh News & Observer

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Cape Hatteras, N.C. — A truck plows through a flooded roadway in Cape Hatteras National Seashore. PHOTOGRAPH BY: JOSE LUIS MAGANA / Reuters

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Ocean City, Md. — Shore birds hunker down, facing into a strong wind, while an emergency response truck makes the rounds. PHOTOGRAPH BY: Karl Merton Ferron / Baltimore Sun

Slide 79: 

Morehead City, N.C. — Ann and Ted Odell look outside their front door during a break in the storm Saturday. PHOTOGRAPH BY: Travis Long / The News & Observer

Slide 80: 

A man walks through flood water along the seawall in Battery Park as Hurricane Irene passes through New York, Sunday, August 28, 2011. Battery Park City and other areas in Lower Manhattan have been evacuated in advance of the storm. Seawater surged into the streets of Manhattan on Sunday as Tropical Storm Irene slammed into New York, downgraded from a hurricane but still unleashing furious wind and rain. The flooding threatened Wall Street and the heart of the global financial network. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

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People take photos of a car parked on the flooded intersection of West Broadway and Grand St. in the Soho neighborhood of Manhattan, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011 in New York. Seawater surged into the streets of Manhattan on Sunday as Tropical Storm Irene slammed into New York, downgraded from a hurricane but still unleashing furious wind and rain. The flooding threatened Wall Street and the heart of the global financial network. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Slide 82: 

Lechelle Spalding stands in front of her flooded home on the Outer Banks in Kitty Hawk, N.C., Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011 in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene after it left the North Carolina coast. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Slide 83: 

Casey and Denise Robinson clear out their destroyed beach home in the Sandbridge area of Virginia Beach, Va., Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011, the day after Hurricane Irene moved through. Officials speculate that a tornado swept through the area. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Slide 84: 

A bicyclist makes his way past a stranded taxi on a flooded New York City Street as Tropical Storm Irene passes through the city, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. Although downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm, Irene's torrential rain coupled with high winds and tides worked in concert to flood parts of the city. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan)

Slide 85: 

Rescue workers help a woman off a floating dock they feared was going to break loose during Hurricane Irene in New Bedford, Mass. Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. Irene weakened to winds of 60 mph, well below the 74 mph dividing line between a hurricane and tropical storm. The system was still massive and powerful, forming a figure six that covered the Northeast. It was moving twice as fast as the day before. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson)

Slide 86: 

Flood water begins to recede along Queen Elizabeth Avenue following the effects of Hurricane Irene in Manteo, N.C., Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. Officials say 2,500 people on Hatteras Island on North Carolina's Outer Banks have been cut off by damage from Hurricane Irene. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

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An Oak Bluffs fire department vehicle is buffeted by strong winds and ocean spray from Tropical Storm Irene while driving along a costal road in Edgartown, Mass., on the island of Martha's Vineyard, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Slide 88: 

Officials survey the damage to route 12 on Hatteras Island, NC., Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. Hurricane Irene swept through the area Saturday cutting the roadway in five locations. Irene caused more than 4.5 million homes and businesses along the East Coast to reportedly lose power over the weekend, and at least 11 deaths were blamed on the storm. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Slide 89: 

Flood debris litters the street as residents survey damage to their neighborhood from Hurricane Irene August 28, 2011 in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. Hurricane Irene hit Dare County, which sits along the Outer Banks and includes the vacation towns of Nags Head, Kitty Hawk and Kill Devil Hills, as a category one hurricane around mid-day yesterday causing wind and flood damage. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

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A downed tree crushes an old home on Dent Street in the Georgetown section of Washington, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011, brought down by rain and wind from Hurricane Irene. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

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A destroyed home sits near the shoreline of the Pamilco River near Aurora, North Carolina, on August 28, 2011 after Hurricane Irene hit the North Carolina coast. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

Slide 92: 

A deer wades through floodwaters in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene, on August 28, 2011, in Lincoln Park, New Jersey. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

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An Eyewitness News SUV is covered in sand and mud created when Hurricane Irene swept through on August 28, 2011 in Long Beach, New York. (Mike Stobe/Getty Images)

Slide 94: 

Janie Gibbs helps clean up a friend's destroyed home on August 28, 2011 after it was hit by Hurricane Irene Saturday in Columbia, North Carolina, The storm killed at least 14 people and left 4 million homes and businesses without power. It unloaded more than a foot of water on North Carolina and spun off tornadoes in Virginia, Maryland and Delaware. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

Slide 95: 

Billy Stinson comforts his daughter Erin Stinson as they sit on the steps where their cottage once stood, on August 28, 2011 in Nags Head, North Carolina. The cottage, built in 1903 and destroyed yesterday by Hurricane Irene, was one of the first vacation cottages built on Albemarle Sound in Nags Head. Stinson has owned the home, which is listed in the National Register of Historic Places, since 1963. "We were pretending, just for a moment, that the cottage was still behind us and we were just sitting there watching the sunset," said Erin afterward. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Slide 96: 

Sand covers the board walk after Hurricane Irene passed through in Ocean City, Maryland, on August 28, 2011. (Reuters/Molly Riley)

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Mark Wade chases his friend Craig Busick (center) as he surfs a large puddle in front of the Board of Education in Centreville, Maryland, on August 28, 2011, after Hurricane Irene. (Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images)

Slide 98: 

Mel Martin joins a crowd watching the raging Whetstone Brook surge over the falls in downtown Brattleboro, Vermont, on August 28, 2011. (AP Photo/The Brattleboro Reformer, Chris Bertelsen)

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Homeowners look over the damage to their home on Crab Apple Court in the Nassau Station development in Lewis, Del. Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/The News Journal, Suchat Pederson)

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A family inspects a downed tree in Central Park after Hurricane Irene dumped more than six inches of rain on August 28, 2011 in New York City. The hurricane hit New York as a Category 1 storm before being downgraded to a tropical storm. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

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Ross O'Country is evacuated on to a fire department boat after his home was flooded, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011 in Elmsford, N.Y. The street was under water by 8:00 a.m. as Tropical Storm Irene continued to bring heavy winds and rain to the Lower Hudson region. ( AP Photo/The Journal News, Seth Harrison)

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Waves kicked up by Tropical Storm Irene crash into homes on Wilbur's Point in Fairhaven, Mass., Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. Tropical Storm Irene's gusty winds and rain caused thousands of power outages and flooding Sunday as Massachusetts emergency officials warned that the downgraded storm still posed a significant threat. (AP Photo/The Standard Times, Peter Pereira)

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A flooded road is seen in Hatteras Island, N.C., Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011after Hurricane Irene swept through the area Saturday cutting the roadway in five locations. Irene caused more than 4.5 million homes and businesses along the East Coast to reportedly lose power over the weekend. Jim R. Bounds / AP

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John Karavas photographs the water in New York City, New York, Sunday, August 28, 2011 after Hurricane Irene swept through the area. Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times

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Two Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority trains sit in water on flooded tracks at Trenton train station Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011, in Trenton, N.J., as rains from Hurricane Irene cause inland flooding of rivers and streams. Mel Evans / AP

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People cross a flooded area around Baltimore Pike and Creek Road from Brandywine River overflow due to Hurricane Irene Sunday, August 28, 2011 outside of Philadelphia, Penna. Ron Cortes / Philadelphia Inquirer

Slide 107: 

Two thrill seekers are pummeled by the waves crashing over the causeway, which connects Saybrook Point with Fenwick, Conn., Sunday, August 28, 2011. Stephen Dunn / Hartford Courant

Slide 108: 

A flooded road is seen in Hatteras Island, N.C., Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011after Hurricane Irene swept through the area Saturday cutting the roadway in five locations. Jim R. Bounds / AP

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Officials survey the damage to route 12 on Hatteras Island, NC., Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. Steve Helber / AP

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Rodanthe, N.C. — Part of State Route 12 was wiped away by the storm surge from Irene. PHOTOGRAPH BY: Chuck Liddy / Raleigh News & Observer

Slide 111: 

A man walks in a flooded street in Hoboken in New Jersey August 28, 2011. Hurricane Irene knocked out power to 3.3 million homes and businesses along the U.S. East Coast, forced two nuclear plants to shut and idled oil ports and refining as it approached New York City early on Sunday. REUTERS/Kena Betancur

Slide 112: 

A lighthouse-shaped building is battered by storm surge and winds from Hurricane Irene in Montauk, New York August 28, 2011. Hurricane Irene battered New York with heavy winds and driving rain on Sunday, shutting down the U.S. financial capital and most populous city, halting mass transit and causing massive power blackouts as it churned slowly northward along the eastern seaboard. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

Slide 113: 

Patrons of the Mad River bar watch as the flooded Schuylkill River covers Main Street, in Manayunk, a suburb of Philadelphia, August 28, 2011. Hurricane Irene was downgraded to a tropical storm on Sunday morning after marching up the East Coast, leaving 11 dead, as many as 3.6 million customers without electricity, forcing the closure of New York's mass transit system, and the cancellation of thousands of flights. REUTERS/Jason Reed

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A young boy leans into powerful wind gusts near the Whitehall Terminal in Lower Manhattan just hours after Hurricane Irene blew through the city on August 28, 2011 in New York City. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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Neighbors look at a scene where a large tree crushed a car on August 28, 2011 in Baltimore, Maryland. (Patrick Smith/Getty Images)

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An unidentified man hangs on to a branch in a rain swollen creek as he waits for rescuers in New City, New York, on August 28, 2011. He and three others went tubing in the creek and had to be rescued by New City and Stony Point fire departments' water rescue teams. With the rains and wind of Tropical Storm Irene heading north, some people went out for recreation in the unusual conditions left in the storm's wake. ( AP Photo/The Journal News, Peter Carr)

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Darrell Tarte, a property estimator with Erie Insurance, surveys damage from a tree at a home in Port Republic, Maryland, after Hurricane Irene on August 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)

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Melvin Flores uses a pail to scoop floodwaters out of his utility room in his apartment after rain from Hurricane Irene, on August 28, 2011, in Little Falls, New Jersey. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

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Bennington Police Chief Paul Doucette looks at a collapsed bridge on Route 9 in Woodford, Vermont, on August 28, 2011. The remnants of Hurricane Irene dumped torrential rains on Vermont on Sunday, flooding rivers and closing roads from Massachusetts to the Canadian border, putting parts of two towns underwater and leaving one young woman swept away and feared drowned in the Deerfield River. (AP Photo/Bennington Banner, Austen Danforth)

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A pine tree collapsed after Hurricane Irene passed, on August 28, 2011 in Jacksonville, North Carolina. (AP Photo/The Jacksonville Daily News, John Althouse)

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Police and fire officials look over the scene of fast-moving flood waters overlapping parked cars on Ferry St. in Trenton, New Jersey, in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene on August 28, 2011. (AP Photo/The Trentonian, Jackie Schear)

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A surfer passes the broken end of the Bogue Inlet Fishing Pier in Emerald Isle, N.C. on August 28, 2011. Hurricane Irene spent 12 hours scouring the coast, killed at least five people, brought pockets of flooding that required rescues along the sounds, and left nearly a half-million customers without power. (John Rottet/The News & Observer/AP)

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The American flag flies in tatters above the U.S. Capitol after Hurricane Irene moved through the nation's capital, on August 28, 2011 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

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Streets of Long Beach Island, New Jersey, are flooded after Hurricane Irene moved through the area on August 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)

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A woman walks off the Long Beach Park beach as the sun sets and the sky clears from Hurricane Irene in Long Beach, New York, on August 28, 2011. (Reuters/Lucas Jackson)

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