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City of Edinburg street crews close a flooded street in downtown Edinburg, Texas on Wednesday, June 30, 2010. As Hurricane Alex inched closer to deep South Texas, residents in low-lying areas were experiencing more than eight inches of rain. (AP Photo/The Monitor, Delcia Lopez)
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Sergio Alvarez shovels seaweed off a boardwalk as the lingering effects of Tropical Storm Alex are felt along the Texas coast on Thursday, July 1, 2010 in South Padre Island, Texas. The Atlantic season's first hurricane largely spared Texas, which had prepared for a possible direct hit. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Padre Boulevard floods as the early effects of Hurricane Alex are felt along the Texas coast on Wednesday, June 30, 2010, in South Padre Island, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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A motorist is assisted by passerbys as the early effects of Hurricane Alex are felt along the Texas coast on Wednesday, June 30, 2010 in South Padre Island, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Dennis Barrett paddles his kayak down a flooded Padre Boulevard as the early effects of Hurricane Alex are felt along the Texas coast on Wednesday, June 30, 2010 in South Padre Island, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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This satellite image provided by NOAA shows Hurricane Alex as it comes ashore Wednesday on a relatively unpopulated stretch of coast in Mexico's northern Tamaulipas state, about 110 miles south of Brownsville, Texas. Alex is moving west near 10 mph. Maximum sustained winds are near 100 mph with higher gusts. Steady weakening is expected as the hurricane moves over land according to forecasters. (Associated Press/NOAA)
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An Indian police vehicle patrols a road dotted with rocks and a burning tire set up as road blockade by protesters in Srinagar, India, Wednesday, June 30, 2010. Authorities brought new areas under curfew in the Indian portion of Kashmir on Wednesday to control the worst street violence in a year, triggered by the killing of 11 people allegedly by government forces over the past two weeks. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
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This image provided by NOAA was acquired Tuesday June 29, 2010, at 5:32 p.m. EDT shows Hurricane Alex churning through the western Gulf, taking aim at the Mexico-Texas border and far away from the massive oil spill. (AP Photo/NOAA)
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In this June 8, 2010, file photo, Elaine Jesmer of Los Angeles holds a sign during a protest against BP PLC organized by Moveon.org outside an ARCO gas station in Los Angeles. Tension is mounting between BP and the neighborhood retailers that sell its gasoline. As more Americans shun BP gasoline as a form of protest over the Gulf oil spill, station owners are insisting BP do more to help them convince motorists that such boycotts mostly hurt independently owned businesses, not the British oil giant. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)
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A Royal Canadian mounted police officer stands guard as Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, not seen, and his delegation arrives in Toronto, Canada, Thursday June 24, 2010 to attend the G8 and the G20 meetings. Cameron steps into a potential hornets' nest of trans-Atlantic conflict when he makes his global debut this week at the G-20 summit in Canada, with tensions over Afghanistan, Europe's debt crisis and the BP oil spill gaining in intensity. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
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A mannequin wearing a respirator holding a fish painted with blood, and a child mannequin hiding its head and murals stand as a protest to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Cut Off, La., Friday, June 25, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, left, talks with reporters as he points to vessels of opportunity skimming for oil just off the beach in Pensacola Beach, Fla., Friday, June 25, 2010. At right is Mike Halstead, Director of Emergency Management for Florida. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster continues to wash ashore along the Alabama and Florida coasts. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
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Florida Gov. Charlie Crist talks with a heavy equipment operator transporting contaminated sand off the beach in Pensacola Beach, Fla., Friday, June 25, 2010. Mr. Crist was making a personal inspection of cleanup efforts along the Florida panhandle. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
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A vessel of opportunity skims for oil just off the beach in Pensacola Beach, Fla., Friday, June 25, 2010. Much of the oil that washed up on Pensacola Beach over the last few days has been cleaned up and officials have reopened the public beaches. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster continues to wash ashore along the Alabama and Florida coasts. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
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Booming operations continue across the Perdido Pass in Orange Beach, Ala., Friday, June 25, 2010. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster continues to wash ashore along the Alabama and Florida coasts. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
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A helicopter drops bags of sand onto a barrier during efforts to contain oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Barataria Bay near Port Sulphur, La., Friday, June 25, 2010. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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People move bags of sand onto a barge during efforts to contain oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Barataria Bay near Port Sulphur, La., Friday, June 25, 2010. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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Oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill collects in shallows in Barataria Bay near Port Sulphur, La., Friday, June 25, 2010. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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Oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill creates dark pockets on a small island ringed with absorbant material in Barataria Bay near Port Sulphur, La., Friday, June 25, 2010. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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Police and rescue workers inspect a victim at the Castelldefels Playa station where a high-speed train passing through the station struck a group of people crossing the tracks, in Castelldefels, Spain, Thursday, June 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
