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Melvin Coto (left) and Jose Billalovos, employees with a clean-up and landscaping company, remove tree limbs and debris from a parking lot on Eisenhower Avenue in Alexandria, Va., on Sept. 9, 2011. The lot was flooded after heavy rains pounded the region the previous night. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Nick Pyteo (left), a supervisor for a clean-up and landscaping company, chops up a large tree limb before hauling away a truckload of debris from a parking lot on Eisenhower Avenue in Alexandria, Va., on Sept. 9, 2011. The lot was flooded after heavy rains pounded the region the previous night. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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A cleaning crew removes mud from an office building's parking lot on Eisenhower Avenue in Alexandria, Va., on Sept. 9, 2011. The lot was flooded after heavy rains pounded the region the previous night. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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A cleaning crew removes mud from an office building's parking lot on Eisenhower Avenue in Alexandria, Va., on Sept. 9, 2011. The lot was flooded after heavy rains pounded the region the previous night. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Muddy water sits inside the headlight of a Mini Cooper in the parking lot of a Courtyard Marriott hotel on Eisenhower Avenue in Alexandria, Va., on Sept. 9, 2011. The lot was flooded after heavy rains pounded the region the previous night. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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A clean-up crew collects tree limbs and debris that washed into the parking lot on Eisenhower Avenue in Alexandria, Va., on Sept. 9, 2011. The lot was flooded after heavy rains pounded the region the previous night. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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A cleaning crew removes mud from an office building's parking lot on Eisenhower Avenue in Alexandria, Va., on Sept. 9, 2011. The lot was flooded after heavy rains pounded the region the previous night. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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William Borden takes photographs of the flood damage to his Lexus in the parking lot of Strayer University in Alexandria, Va., on Sept. 9, 2011. The lot was flooded after heavy rains pounded the region the previous night. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Mud dries on the hood of a car parked on Eisenhower Avenue in Alexandria, Va., on Sept. 9, 2011, after heavy rains pounded the region the previous night. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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A large gas-powered water pump is employed Sept. 9, 2011, in the basement parking lot under the Alexandria Tech Center 4 on Eisenhower Avenue in Alexandria, Va. The lot was flooded after heavy rains pounded the region the previous night. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Allen Snook with Simpson Development sets up a water pump on Sept. 9, 2011, to help with water removal in the basement parking lot under the Alexandria Tech Center 4 on Eisenhower Avenue in Alexandria, Va. The lot was flooded after heavy rains pounded the region the previous night. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Debris is trapped Sept. 9, 2011, on an Interstate 495 bridge over Camden Run near Eisenhower Avenue in Alexandria, Va., which was flooded after heavy rains pounded the region. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Don Simpson, owner of Simpson Development, looks at the lobby of one of his properties, Alexandria Tech Center II, along Eisenhower Avenue in Alexandria, Va., on Sept. 9, 2011. The property, which had flood waters in its elevators, lobby and parking lot, was built with a first-floor parking lot so that office spaces wouldn't be damaged by flooding, Mr. Simpson said. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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A cleaning crew removes mud from the first-floor parking lot at Alexandria Tech Center II on Eisenhower Avenue in Alexandria, Va., on Sept. 9, 2011. The lot was flooded after heavy rains pounded the region the previous night. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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A cleaning crew removes mud from the first-floor parking lot at Alexandria Tech Center II on Eisenhower Avenue in Alexandria, Va., on Sept. 9, 2011. The lot was flooded after heavy rains pounded the region the previous night. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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William Borden looks at the flood damage to his Lexus in the parking lot of Strayer University in Alexandria, Va., on Sept. 9, 2011. The lot was flooded after heavy rains pounded the region the previous night. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Titus Boyd finds a cell phone while looking through a basket of flood-damaged belongings from his parents' house on Sept. 9, 2011, as residents cleaned up from the flooding on Arlington Terrace in the Huntington neighborhood of Alexandria, Va., after heavy rains pounded the region. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Titus Boyd looks through a basket of flood-damaged belongings from his parents' house on Sept. 9, 2011, as residents cleaned up from the flooding on Arlington Terrace in the Huntington neighborhood of Alexandria, Va., after heavy rains pounded the region. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Titus Boyd carries flood-damaged belongings from his parents' house on Sept. 9, 2011, as residents cleaned up from the flooding on Arlington Terrace in the Huntington neighborhood of Alexandria, Va., after heavy rains pounded the region. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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A Fairfax County fire official walks past a pile of flood-damaged personal belongings from the Boyd family home on Sept. 9, 2011, as residents cleaned up from the flooding on Arlington Terrace in the Huntington neighborhood of Alexandria, Va., after heavy rains pounded the region. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)