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Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force farewell their P-3C Orion as it taxis from the Royal Australian Air Force Pearce Base to commence a search for possible debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, in Perth, Australia, Monday, March 24, 2014. Satellite images released by Australia and China had earlier identified possible debris in an area that may be linked to the disappearance of the flight on March 8 with 239 people aboard. (AP Photo/Paul Kane, Pool)
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A Malaysian Chinese woman takes pictures of a message board for the missing Malaysia Airline, Flight MH370 with a mobile phone camera at a shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Monday, March 24, 2014. A Chinese plane on Monday spotted two white, square-shaped objects in an area identified by satellite imagery as containing possible debris from the missing Malaysian airliner, while the United States separately prepared to send a specialized device that can locate black boxes. (AP Photo/Joshua Paul)
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FILE - In this Nov. 2, 1991 file photo, the driveway leading to U.S. President George H.W. Bush's vacation compound on Walker's Point in Kennebunkport, Maine is littered with rocks and rubble left by 20-foot waves from an Atlantic storm that damaged homes and flooded roads along the coast the previous week. In 2012, Congress passed a law requiring approximately 1.1 million policyholders nationwide to start paying rates based on the true risk of flooding. Thousands of Maine homeowners and businesses could see their flood insurance rise in an attempt to put the troubled National Flood Insurance Program back on sound financial footing. Bush's home is among the properties in the program. (AP Photo/Scott Perry, File)
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Mitch Haddad stands on a second story balcony that overlooks marshlands and the harbor beyond at his restaurant, Haddad's Ocean Cafe, in the Brant Rock area of Marshfield, Mass., Friday, March 21, 2014. The restaurant has been in his family for over 70 years. When they decided to build a larger building recently, FEMA said the structure must be at least 11 feet off the ground. So they decided to go higher, building at 13 feet. About a year after the new restaurant opened, Mitch Haddad said they were told new federal flood maps now put the safe elevation at 16 feet. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)
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Mitch Haddad, right, talks with a patron outside his restaurant, Haddad's Ocean Cafe, after lunch in the Brant Rock area of Marshfield, Mass., Friday, March 21, 2014. The restaurant has been in his family for over 70 years. When they decided to build a larger building recently, FEMA said the structure must be at least 11 feet off the ground. So they decided to go higher, building at 13 feet. About a year after the new restaurant opened, Mitch Haddad said they were told new federal flood maps now put the safe elevation at 16 feet. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)
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Realtor Bob Preston stands for a photograph looking towards the ocean on his property in Hampton, N.H. on Friday, March 21, 2014. Preston says he has lived on New Hampshire’s seacoast his entire life and his family has sold and rented properties there for decades. He’s never had a property flood but still pays for federally mandated flood insurance. Like thousands of others across New Hampshire whose flood insurance is subsidized by the government, the amount he pays is about to go up because of changes to the National Flood Insurance Program. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)
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Paul Garrett stands on a stairway in front of his house which leads down to the banks of the Susquehanna River in Jersey Shore, Pa. on Sunday, March 23, 2014. About a third of the borough (population 4,300) is in a flood hazard zone. Nearly 470 homes in town are expected to see flood insurance premium hikes. (AP Photo/Ralph Wilson)
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The west branch of the Susquehanna River flows past Jersey Shore, Pa. on Sunday March 23, 2014. About a third of the borough (population 4,300) is in a flood hazard zone and nearly 470 homes in town are expected to see flood insurance premium hikes because of changes to the National Flood Insurance Program. (AP Photo/Ralph Wilson)
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Status lights glow on a control panel for a groundwater pump in Hoquiam, Wash. on Monday, March 18, 2014. Most of Hoquiam is in a flood plain, and the mayor says despite the pumps and other measures used to reduce the town's risk of flooding, possible increases in federal flood insurance rates would adversely affect many who live here. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
