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The ground floor entrance to the Allegria Hotel on West Broadway in Long Beach, N.Y., is covered in mud, after Hurricane Irene swept through Long Island on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek)
A man and his daughter scramble across the shoreline rocks after being hit by a wave on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011 in Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia. Atlantic Canada is experiencing increased wind and rain as the effects of Irene, downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm, continues to move towards southern Quebec and Eastern Canada. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Mike Dembeck)
Flooded cars outside a store in Washingtonville, N.Y., Sunday Aug. 28, 2011 following heavy rains. Stripped of hurricane rank, Tropical Storm Irene spent the last of its fury Sunday, leaving treacherous flooding and millions without power. (AP Photo/Paul Kazdan)
A resident of Gover Road in Millbury, Mass., watches as crews work to clear a tree downed by Tropical Storm Irene on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. The winds downed trees and power lines around the state, knocking out electricity for more than half a million people. (AP Photo/Worcester Telegram & Gazette, Paul Kapteyn)
A man walks on top of a wall next to a flooded highway in New Brunswick, N.J., Aug. 28, 2011, as heavy rains left by Hurricane Irene are causing inland flooding of rivers and streams. 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/Mel Evans)
Residents of Stumpy Point, N.C. make their way into their flooded home following the effects of Hurricane Irene Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. 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/Gerry Broome)
Paige Martin, far left, and Anna Knecht Schwarzer watch from a bench at the Transit Center as the Whetstone Brook floods downtown Brattleboro, Vt. on Sunday, Aug. 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/The Brattleboro Reformer, Chris Bertelsen)
Derrick Arbuckle watches from the top of a parking garage as the Whetstone Brook floods downtown Brattleboro, Vt. on Sunday, Aug. 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/The Brattleboro Reformer, Chris Bertelsen)
The Whetstone Brook flows freely down Flat St. in Brattleboro, Vt. on Sunday, Aug. 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/The Brattleboro Reformer, Chris Bertelsen)
Water covers Main Street in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Irene on Monday, Aug. 29, 2011, in Waterbury, Vt. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)
Mel Martin joins a crowd watching the raging Whetstone Brook surge over the falls in downtown Brattleboro, Vt. on Sunday, Aug. 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/The Brattleboro Reformer, Chris Bertelsen)
Cleanup continues as a surfer passes a dislodged lifeguard shack in Long Beach, N.Y., Monday, Aug. 29, 2011, after it was knocked off its footing on the beach during Tropical Storm Irene. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
Tree strikes house in Lusby, Md. Resident writes, "complete devastation down here. ... trees falling all over, no power still." (Photo courtesy Joseph Chenelly.)
Damage from Irene near Tenley circle in Northwest Washington, D.C. Sunday morning. (WTOP Photo/Saeko Robinson)
An unidentified man is seen cleaning debris from the curb in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, the morning after Hurricane Irene moved through the city, Sunday, Aug., 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Residents of Annapolis, Md., look at downed power lines after Hurricane Irene, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. More than 4 million homes and businesses were without power Sunday morning as Hurricane Irene continued to roar up the East Coast and took aim at the New York City area and New England. Maryland, Delaware and Washington, D.C. had about three-quarters of a million outages combined. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Beachgoers look at a dead sea turtle that washed up on the beach after Hurricane Irene, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011, in Ventnor City, N.J. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
The Coney Island boardwalk in New York is obscured by sand and rain as Hurricane Irene reached the area Sunday, Aug. 28 2011. Rainfall overflowed sewers and seawater lapped at sidewalks at the edges of New York City from densely populated lower Manhattan to the far reaches of Queens as a weakening Irene made landfall over Coney Island early Sunday. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
Chic's Beach resident Taylor Sharpe and his dog Sandy walk the beach there at high tide Sunday morning, Aug. 28, 2011, after the departure of Hurricane Irene. Waves from the Chesapeake Bay lap at the pilings of the waterfront homes on Ocean View Avenue in this section of Virginia Beach. (AP Photo/The Virginia-Pilot, Vicki Cronis-Nohe) MAGS OUT
Lorne and Anne Cramer look at the remains of a maple tree which fell over early Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011 in front of their home, damaging a neighbors vehicle, left, on Princess Street in Old Town Alexandria, Va. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
Driving wind and rain lash the Coney Island boardwalk in New York as Irene came closer to the area Sunday, Aug. 28 2011. Irene hit Coney Island with 65-mph winds, making it now a tropical storm. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
Gary Atlas, of Brighton Beach, N.Y., runs along a pier at Coney Island in New York despite the onset of Hurricane Irene in the area Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. Rainfall overflowed sewers and seawater lapped at sidewalks at the edges of New York City from densely populated Lower Manhattan to the far reaches of Queens as a weakening Irene made landfall over Coney Island early Sunday. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
A Port Authority police vehicle blocks traffic from entering the Holland Tunnel Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011 in New York. The north, or New Jersey-bound side of the Holland Tunnel was closed Sunday morning because of flooding from Tropical Storm Irene's rains. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
An emergency response truck plows water as crews try to open a flooded Route 295, a major north-south highway, near Bellmawr, N.J., Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011, after rains from Hurricane Irene closed the highway. As Irene heads north, the concern behind is inland flooding of rivers and streams. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
Lechelle, right, and her daughter Haleigh Spalding sit in front of their flooded home after a storm surge 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)
Grand Street and West Broadway in the Soho neighborhood of Manhattan is flooded, 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)
Water washes over the feet of Battery Park City resident Mickey Alamkhan in Battery Park City's Wagner Park as Hurricane Irene passes through New York, Sunday, August 28, 2011. 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)
Sixth Avenue near Radio City Music Hall is empty as Tropical Storm Irene hits in New York, on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. Seawater surged into the streets of Manhattan on Sunday as 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/Mike Groll)
Brian Brown, left, of California, Md., and Ryan Frederick, of Hollywood, Md., wade through floodwater in Leonardtown, Md., after Hurricane Irene Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)
Rising water and waves from Hurrican Irene surround a beachfront house Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011 in Hampton Bays, N.Y. Forecasters said the storm remained capable of causing ruinous flooding with a combination of storm surge, high tides and 6 to 12 inches of rain. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
2.5 year-old Yorkie, Jackson, assessing the damage of Hurricane Irene in Davidsonville, Md. (Photo Courtesy of Brittany Webber)
A tree and power lines down in the 10500 block of Dune Ave. in Kensington, Md. (Photo Courtesy of William Everett)
A tree down on 6th SE and East Capitol streets in the Capitol Hill neighborhood in Washington, D.C. (WTOP Photo/Mitchell Miller)
Water pools in a parking lot at the Ocean City Inlet Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011 as the outer bands of Hurricane Irene cover the area. (AP Photo/Salisbury Daily Times, Laura Emmons) NO SALES
Passers-by walk near a restaurant with windows boarded-up with plywood in preparation for the arrival of Hurricane Irene, in Oak Bluffs, Mass., on the island of Martha's Vineyard, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011. A cardboard sign advising that the business is open is seen attached to the plywood. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
In preparation for the arrival of Hurricane Irene, Vikram Oad, manager of a Dunkin' Donuts store, tapes his store windows on Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011, in Bellmore, N.Y. 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/Kathy Kmonicek)
Rafael Gutierrez, who evacuated his Lusby, Md. home, speaks on his mobile phone at a shelter set up at Southern Middle School in Lusby, as Hurricane Irene approaches Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)
Denis Hromin, a fisherman, checks on a fishing pier on the Outer Banks in Kill Devil Hills, N.C., Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011. 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. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Workmen install plywood over the windows of a Versace store on Fifth Avenue in New York, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011. Hurricane Irene opened its assault on the Eastern Seaboard on Saturday, lashing the North Carolina coast with wind as strong as 115 mph (185 kph) and pounding shoreline homes with waves. Farther north in New York City and Philadelphia, authorities readied a massive shutdown of trains and airports, with 2 million people ordered out of the way.(AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
The hurricane force winds of Irene rip the siding off of homes on Nags Head, N.C. late Saturday morning, Aug. 27, 2011. (AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, Stephen M. Katz)
Heavy rain pours down on Deleware Rt. 1 in a deserted Dewey Beach, Del. Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011 as Hurricane Irene starts to affect the area. (AP Photo/The Daily Times, Chuck Snyder)
Denis Hromin, a concerned fisherman, checks on Avalon Fishing Pier as it lost some pilings after being battered by wind and waves on the Outer Banks in Kill Devil Hills, N.C., Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011 as Hurricane Irene reaches the North Carolina coast. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Mike Julian, of Bowie, Md., pumps water out of one of his boats used for his business during Hurricane Irene, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011, in Annapolis, Md. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
George Pavan call his roommates, who left for higher ground, to inform them about the conditions in their neighborhood Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011 in Morehead City, N.C.. Hurricane Irene, a category 1 storm, is making landfall on the North Carolina coast. (AP Photo/The News & Observer, Travis Long)
Ann and Ted Odell look outside their front door during a break in the storm Saturday, August 27, 2011 in Morehead City, N.C.. Hurricane Irene, a category 1 storm, is making landfall on the North Carolina coast. (AP Photo/The News & Observer, Travis Long)
A tourist takes a picture of the recently damaged Washington Monument as clouds from Hurricane Irene moves up the Eastern Seaboard towards Washington, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011. The monument has been closed to the public it was damaged in the earthquake that shook the capital last Tuesday. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)
Jerry Darby, from Atlantic City, walks across the boardwalk to look at the deserted beach before Hurricane Irene, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011, in Atlantic City, N.J. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Furniture floats in a motel swimming pool to prevent it from being picked up by high winds in Ocean City, Md., Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011, as Hurricane Irene heads toward the Maryland coast. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Jim and Amy Burdick of Annapolis, Md., drink coffee in downtown Annapolis next to a pile of sandbags as the town prepares for the arrival of Hurricane Irene Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Residents fill bags of sand as they prepare for Hurricane Irene in Annapolis, Md., Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011. 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/Susan Walsh)
A man walks along Avalon Pier in Kill Devil Hills, Outer Banks, N.C., Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011, as Hurricane Irene reaches the North Carolina coast. Irene slammed into North Carolina's coast around dawn Saturday with howling winds and drenching rains amid reports of flooding and tens of thousands of people without power. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
People run from the beach in Kitty Hawk, Outer Banks, N.C., Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011, as Hurricane Irene reaches the North Carolina coast. Irene slammed into North Carolina's coast around dawn Saturday with howling winds and drenching rains amid reports of flooding and tens of thousands of people without power. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Resident Tony Silverthorne, who chose not to evacuate, has his drink in the wind and rain at Avalon Pier in Kill Devil Hills, N.C., Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011, as Hurricane Irene reaches the North Carolina coast. Irene slammed into North Carolina's coast around dawn Saturday with howling winds and drenching rains amid reports of flooding and tens of thousands of people without power. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
An amusement park ride sits closed on a boardwalk in Ocean City, Md., Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011, as Hurricane Irene heads toward the Maryland coast. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Waves crash onto the beach in Ocean City, Md., Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011, as Hurricane Irene heads toward the Maryland coast. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Joyce Chase, of Chesapeake, Va., right, and Michael Minchew, look over the jetty at Rudee Inlet as the waves and rain from Hurricane Irene hit Virginia Beach, Va., Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
An Ocean City Police Department cruiser patrols a boardwalk in Ocean City, Md., Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011, as Hurricane Irene heads toward the Maryland coast. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
An Ocean City Police Department cruiser stands watch near a beach in Ocean City, Md., Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011, as Hurricane Irene heads toward the Maryland coast. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Abandoned beach front houses are surrounded by rising water as the effects of Hurricane Irene are felt in Nags Head, N.C., Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011 (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
Abandoned beach front houses are surrounded by rising water as the effects of Hurricane Irene are felt in Nags Head, N.C., Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011 (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
Abandoned beach front houses are surrounded by rising water as the effects of Hurricane Irene are felt in Nags Head, N.C., Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011 (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
Scott DeMichele looks over water damage as he stands outside his motel in Atlantic Beach, N.C., Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011, as Hurricane Irene hits the North Carolina coast. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
Waves move onto the beach as the Hurricane Irene approaches in Nags Head, N.C., Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011. Irene slammed into North Carolina's coast around dawn Saturday with howling winds and drenching rains amid reports of flooding and tens of thousands of people without power. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
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