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Waves crash along a seawall as Tropical Storm Irene, downgraded from a hurricane, slammed into Fairhaven, Mass. Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson)
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Caution tape hangs in front of a house that was heavily damaged by a possible tornado in Lewes, Del., Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011, after Hurricane Irene churned along the Delaware coast overnight. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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Grand Street and West Broadway in the Soho neighborhood of Manhattan is flooded, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011 in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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A city worker in Alexandria examines the scene on Payne Street on Sunday where tree branches and a telephone line came down. Hurricane Irene knocked out power to nearly 500,000 customers in the region, and some residents may not have power restored for several more days. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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A utility worker makes repairs on electrical lines following Hurricane Irene in Nags Head, N.C., on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. Power is returning for hundreds of thousands of people after the storm passed through coastal states in the South. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
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Isaac Boone (right) takes photos of the damage to his friend's Jeep as a neighbor steps in to help move the fallen tree in Alexandria on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. Winds and rain from Hurricane Irene caused the tree to split. (Andrew S. Geraci/The Washington Times)
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Hurricane Irene, which passed through the D.C. region on Saturday and early Sunday, damaged three row houses near Sixth and R streets NW in Washington. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Two men push a cart through a deserted Grand Central Terminal in New York on Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011. The Metro North commuter railroad suspended service to the north of the city ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Irene. (AP Photo/Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Marjorie Anders)
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Chris McPherson, 20, of Towson, Md., kicks water on Becca Sexton, 19, of Seattle, Wash., on flooded Prince George Street as bands of high winds and heavy rain from Hurricane Irene lash Annapolis, Md., Saturday, August 27, 2011. The two are students at St. John's College in Annapolis. (J.M. Eddins, Jr./The Washington Times)
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Omar Said, 24, walks down Main Street covered in a plastic bag as bands of high winds and heavy rain from Hurricane Irene lash Annapolis, Md., Saturday, August 27, 2011. (J.M. Eddins, Jr./The Washington Times)
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Kevin Gaughan, of Annapolis, Md., carries Kristin Barth of Baltimore, Md. through flood waters on Prince George Street as bands of high winds and heavy rain from Hurricane Irene lash Annapolis, Md., Saturday, August 27, 2011. (J.M. Eddins, Jr./The Washington Times)
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A family runs down Main Street as bands of high winds and heavy rain from Hurricane Irene lash Annapolis, Md., Saturday, August 27, 2011. (J.M. Eddins, Jr./The Washington Times)
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A destroyed umbrella lays in the street the morning after Hurricane Irene in Washington, DC, Sunday, August 28, 2011. (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)
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Awnings damaged by Hurricane Irene blow in the wind near the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, DC, Sunday, August 28, 2011. (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)
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Sheryl Brungart takes a photograph of looks damage caused by an uprooted tree which crashed into a neighbors house in White Hall Manor, in Anne Arundel County, Md., Sunday, August 28, 2011. Winds and rain from Hurricane Irene uprooted trees which crashed into houses in the neighborhood on Saturday night, August 27, 2011. Nobody was hurt in the incident. (J.M. Eddins, Jr./The Washington Times)
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Debbie Martinez looks over the damage caused by an uprooted tree which crashed into the bedroom of the house she is renting on Canal Lane in White Hall Manor, in Anne Arundel County, Md., Sunday, August 28, 2011. Winds and rain from Hurricane Irene uprooted trees which crashed into houses in the neighborhood on Saturday night, August 27, 2011. Nobody was hurt in the incident. (J.M. Eddins, Jr./The Washington Times)
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Greg Sepper starts cleaning up in front of his home on Cameron Mews in Alexandria's Old Town area on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011, in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene. After Hurricane Isabel in 2002, the spot where he is standing was under about 13 feet of water. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Sheryl Brungart takes a photograph of damage caused by an uprooted tree that crashed into a neighbor's house in White Hall Manor in Anne Arundel County, Md., on Sunday, August 28, 2011. Winds and rain from Hurricane Irene uprooted trees that crashed into houses in the neighborhood on Saturday night. Nobody was hurt in the incident. (J.M. Eddins Jr./The Washington Times)
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Waves from a storm surge from Hurricane Irene crash over the shore during high tide in Bayshore, N.Y., on Long Island on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
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A worker for Santee Cooper, South Carolina's state-owned utility, repairs a power line downed by Hurricane Irene in North Myrtle Beach, S.C., on Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011. An estimated 8,000 electric customers in South Carolina lost power because of the storm. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith)
