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This July 31, 2017 photo shows floodwaters on the beach up against an oceanfront house in Margate N.J. days after heavy rains created large ponds of standing water on the beach. On Thursday Aug. 3, 2017, a judge ordered the immediate shutdown of the sand dune construction project that caused the water to collect on the beach, and gave the federal, state and local governments a week to come up with an engineering solution. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
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This July 31, 2017 photo shows beachgoers crossing over large ponds of water on the beach in Margate N.J., days after heavy rains created large ponds of standing water on the beach. On Thursday Aug. 3, 2017, a judge ordered the immediate shutdown of the sand dune construction project that caused the water to collect on the beach, and gave the federal, state and local governments a week to come up with an engineering solution. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
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Highway 12 on Hatteras Island, N.C., is quiet on the morning of Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017, as tourists have been evacuated from Hatteras and neighboring Ocracoke Island in North Carolina. The outage caused by a construction accident forced an estimated 50,000 visitors to leave Hatteras and Ocracoke islands, and others never made it to the popular vacation spots because of evacuation orders that are still in place. (Steve Earley/The Virginian-Pilot via AP)
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FILE - In this Nov. 5, 2015, file photo, visitors view the Statue of Liberty during a ferry ride to Liberty Island in New York. Senior White House aide Stephen Miller told reporters Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017, that the poem written by Emma Lazarus about the "huddled masses" is not part of the original Statue of Liberty. Miller says the Statue of Liberty is a "symbol of American liberty lighting the world" and suggested the statue had little to do with immigrants. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)
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FOR RELEASE SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2017, AT 12:01 A.M. EDT.- Lola Smith was finally able to move back into her apartment at First Baptist homes in Lumberton, N.C, after spending months living in a hotel. (Andrew Craft /The Fayetteville Observer via AP)
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FOR RELEASE SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2017, AT 12:01 A.M. EDT.-Lola Smith was finally able to move back into her apartment at First Baptist homes in Lumberton, N.C, after spending months living in a hotel. (Andrew Craft /The Fayetteville Observer via AP)
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FOR RELEASE SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 2017, AT 12:01 A.M. EDT.-Harold Showalter has worked in this 23-terrace garden behind his home in Etowah, N.C., for the last 19 years. He spends six days a week in his garden, which he meticulously constructed himself on the hillside behind his Mountain Valley Drive home. He's created a masterpiece with 23 terraces, numerous walkways and a dizzying assortment of plants. (Derek Lacey /The Times-News via AP)
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FOR RELEASE SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 2017, AT 12:01 A.M. EDT. - A view of Harold Showalter's garden from the back porch. He spends six days a week in his garden, which he meticulously constructed himself on the hillside behind his Mountain Valley Drive home. He's created a masterpiece with 23 terraces, numerous walkways and a dizzying assortment of plants. (Derek Lacey /The Times-News via AP)
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FOR RELEASE SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 2017, AT 12:01 A.M. EDT. - Flowers in Harold Showalter's garden in Etowah, N.C. He spends six days a week in his garden, which he meticulously constructed himself on the hillside behind his Mountain Valley Drive home. He's created a masterpiece with 23 terraces, numerous walkways and a dizzying assortment of plants. (Derek Lacey /The Times-News via AP)
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One of several staircases Harold Showalter has constructed in his garden in Etowah, N.C. Harold spends six days a week in his garden, which he meticulously constructed himself on the hillside behind his Mountain Valley Drive home in Etowah, N.C. He's created a masterpiece with 23 terraces, numerous walkways and a dizzying assortment of plants. (Derek Lacey /The Times-News via AP)
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FOR RELEASE SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 2017, AT 12:01 A.M. EDT. - Harold Showalter with the crank-operated storage container he constructed from an old planter bed. Showalter spends six days a week in his garden, which he meticulously constructed himself on the hillside behind his Mountain Valley Drive home in Etowah, N.C. He's created a masterpiece with 23 terraces, numerous walkways and a dizzying assortment of plants. (Derek Lacey /The Times-News via AP)
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FOR RELEASE SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 2017, AT 12:01 A.M. EDT. - Harold Showalter, 81, and his wife Linda are the people featured in the photos, in the half-acre backyard garden he's worked on for the last 19 years that has 23 terraces, all built by Showalter. He spends six days a week in his garden, which he meticulously constructed himself on the hillside behind his Mountain Valley Drive home in Etowah, N.C. He's created a masterpiece with 23 terraces, numerous walkways and a dizzying assortment of plants. (Derek Lacey /The Times-News via AP)
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FOR RELEASE SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 2017, AT 12:01 A.M. EDT. Harold and Linda Showalter in their garden. Showalter spends six days a week in his garden, which he meticulously constructed himself on the hillside behind his Mountain Valley Drive home in Etowah, N.C. He's created a masterpiece with 23 terraces, numerous walkways and a dizzying assortment of plants. (Derek Lacey /The Times-News via AP)
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In this Thursday, July 13, 2017 photo, Guy Hansen controls his balance as he rides his mountain unicycle along Mount Timpanogos Trail in American Fork Canyon near Provo, Utah. (Isaac Hale/The Daily Herald via AP)
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In this Thursday, July 13, 2017 photo, Morgan Hansen, center, hikes along Mount Timpanogos Trail with his father, Guy, right, and their mountain unicycles in American Fork Canyon near Provo, Utah. (Isaac Hale/The Daily Herald via AP)
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In this Thursday, July 13, 2017 photo, Guy Hansen rides his mountain unicycle along Mount Timpanogos Trail in American Fork Canyon near Provo, Utah. (Isaac Hale/The Daily Herald via AP)
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In this Thursday, July 13, 2017 photo, Morgan Hansen, left, jumps from a bench on his mountain unicycle as his father, Guy, readies his unicycle along Mount Timpanogos Trail in American Fork Canyon near Provo, Utah. (Isaac Hale/The Daily Herald via AP)
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In this Thursday, July 13, 2017 photo, Guy Hansen rides his mountain unicycle through a patch of snow along Mount Timpanogos Trail in American Fork Canyon near Provo, Utah. (Isaac Hale/The Daily Herald via AP)
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Hotel guests Leonard Perry and Breanna Bundle of Kalamazoo wait in a parking lot with their luggage after an explosion in the area of the Antheneum Hotel and Fishbones restaurant caused Greektown buildings in Detroit to be evacuated on Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017. Authorities say an underground electrical cable failure caused explosions in downtown Detroit that sent manhole covers into the air and prompted the evacuation of the restaurant and the Atheneum Suite Hotel. (Daniel Mears/Detroit News via AP)
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Fishbones employees wait across the street from the restaurant after an explosion in Detroit's Greektown caused evacuations on Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017. Authorities say an underground electrical cable failure caused explosions in downtown Detroit that sent manhole covers into the air and prompted the evacuation of the restaurant and the Atheneum Suite Hotel. (Daniel Mears/Detroit News via AP)
