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Chuck Tomlin uses a shovel to stop a fire in the backyard of a home on Mauna Kea Lane in the Tahitian Village neighborhood in Bastrop, Texas, on Monday. Mr. Tomlin volunteered to knock down flames a few feet from the house of a neighbor. (Associated Press)
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Six months after a tsunami and nuclear disaster wiped out the fishing industry in northeastern Japan and scared domestic and foreign consumers away from Japanese seafood, Ofunato's fish market is bustling again. (Christopher Johnson/Special to The Washington Times)
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**FILE** Safety LaRon Landry had been sidelined since injuring his hamstring Aug. 19 before a Redskins preseason game. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Hurricane Irene prompted a stay home and watch TV boom in American homes on Aug. 27, but is an "Irene baby boom" in our future? (Image from NASA)
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Chris and Kristen Hogan of Biloxi, Miss., take a Sunday walk on the beach in Pass Christian, Miss., with their children Sophie and Myers after rains from Tropical Storm Lee forced them from their home when the Biloxi River flooded. (Associated Press)
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A man walks on driftwood piled up on a bridge on Monday, Sept. 5, 2011, after powerful Typhoon Talas struck Kiho, Japan. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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A home in Pittsfield, Vt., is partially submerged after floodwaters from Hurricane Irene ravaged the state in 2011. (Associated Press)
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President Obama (center) talks to reporters on the Temple Street Bridge over the Passaic River as he visits areas damaged by Hurricane Irene on Sunday, Sept. 4, 2011, in Paterson, N.J. Gov. Chris Christie stands left of Mr. Obama. (AP Photo/John O'Boyle, Pool)
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President Obama talks with residents of Fayette Avenue in Wayne, N.J., on Sunday, Sept. 4, 2011, as he visits Garden State areas flooded by Hurricane Irene. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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Overflowing water from a river floods a residential area in Nachikatsuura, Japan, on Sunday, Sept. 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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This NOAA satellite image taken on Saturday, Sept. 4, 2011, at 2 a.m. EDT shows Tropical Storm Katia, which increased to hurricane strength on Sunday, at center right. Tropical Storm Lee is seen off the U.S. Gulf Coast at center left in the photo. (AP Photo/Weather Underground)
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North Korean workers unload emergency flood aid sent from the United States at the Pyongyang airport in North Korea on Saturday, Sept. 3, 2011. The small but symbolic shipment of emergency aid for the flood-stricken North is the latest sign of a thaw in relations between the countries. (AP Photo/Associated Press Television News)
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Alabama Department of Transportation road crews clear debris from the road to Dauphin Island, Ala., early on Sunday, Sept. 4, 2011, as Tropical Storm Lee continued to meander along the Gulf Coast, bringing torrential rains and flooding. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
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Tropical Storm Irene caused road and building damage along Route 15 in New York, Thursday, Sept.1, 2011. Utility companies continue to bring New York electricity customers back on line, but almost 182,000 are still blacked out four days after Irene pounded the state with drenching rains and high winds. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink)
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** FILE ** In this May 26, 2011, file photo, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) headquarters is seen in Rockville, Md. The risk of an earthquake causing a severe accident at a nuclear power plant is up to 24 times greater than previously believed, according to an AP analysis of preliminary government data, and the nation’s nuclear regulator believes that a quarter of reactors may need modifications to make them safer. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
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In this photo from Aug. 31, 2011, some of an estimated 4,000 people wait to enter a job fair called the "For The People Jobs Initiative," where job seekers met employers, job counselors, skills trainers and others at Crenshaw Christian Center in South Los Angeles. (Associated Press)
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ROD A. LAMKEY/THE WASHINGTON TIMES A tanker truck rolls by a storage tank at the Transmontaigne facility at the Pickett Road tank farm in Fairfax. Federal and state agencies fined Transmontaigne about $114,000 after two spills in 2010.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Workers install safety netting at the Washington National Cathedral on Thursday after the landmark was damaged Aug. 23 by a 5.8-magnitude earthquake. A cathedral spokesman said no additional debris is expected to fall, adding that the netting is strictly a precautionary measure.
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associated press photographs In Paterson N.J. on Thursday, people on a foot bridge watch the Great Falls of the Passaic River roar with water after Hurricane Irene. Flooding continues to hamper recovery efforts in northern New Jersey. Paterson got more than 8 inches of rain from the storm and the subsequent flooding was the worst in more than a century.
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A worker attaches a chain to a washed-out rail line in Phoenicia, N.Y., in the Catskill Mountains. Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Irene caused $1 billion in damage in New York, most of it from flooding upstate.
