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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 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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A hotel is reflected in puddles of rain from approaching Tropical Storm Lee at a streetcar track, as a streetcar passes through Lee Circle, in New Orleans, Friday, Sept. 2, 2011. Lee formed in the waters off Louisiana on Friday, threatening a drenching along much of the Gulf coast over the Labor Day weekend with up to 20 inches (50 centimeters) of rain in some spots. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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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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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.
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Richmond American Homes is building 50 single-family homes on half-acre sites at Stonewall Manor in Triangle. The Amherst model, with 2,800 square feet, is priced from $419,950.
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Exhibit: Covering Katrina By the time Hurricane Irene had finished dumping buckets over Queens, the media was full-throatedly debating whether they had devoted too much of their attention to the storm. Some folks argued that the storm received wall-to-wall coverage because, unlike previous hurricanes, it posed an inconvenience to media-saturated cities like D.C. and New York. Still others countered that the media didn't cover the storm enough, that it switched to navel-gazing just in time to miss Irene beat the living daylights out of Vermont. While the jury's still out on Irene coverage, it gave itself a happy verdict on Hurricane Katrina. To review what the media believe they did right before, during, and after the worst storm in history, the Newseum has created an exhibit that "chronicles the dramatic tale of the media's reporting of the killer storm." To Sept. 18 at the Newseum, 555 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. Phone: 888/639-7386. Web: newseum.org.
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Paterson, N.J., firefighters suit up for a possible rescue on the city's Bridge Street as the swollen Passaic River floods on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2011. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Vermont National Guardsmen load ready-to-eat meals and water for residents of Fair Haven on Wednesday. Vermont Emergency Management officials said all but one of the state's communities left isolated by flooding had been reached by ground crews as of Wednesday.
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A bridge on Route 73 in Rochester, Vt., lies in the river in this aerial view on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2011. All access to the town was cut off by flooding from the rainy remnants of Hurricane Irene in a deluge that took inland areas of New England and upstate New York by surprise with its ferocity. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)
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A produce store in Ship Bottom, N.J. lets customers know Hurricane Irene didn't knock it out of business. Shore towns recovering from the storm hope tourists weren't scared away for the remainder of the summer season. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS This aerial photograph shows destruction of Route 4 in Killington, Vt., on Tuesday after Tropical Storm Irene passed through New England on Sunday.
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CUSTOMERS: Residents wait outside the grocery store in Rochester, Vt., inaccessible since Tropical Storm Irene hit. It is one of many small towns in the state to receive supplies Tuesday via a National Guard airlift. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS This aerial photograph shows destruction of Route 4 in Killington, Vt., on Tuesday after Tropical Storm Irene passed through New England on Sunday.
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BURLINGTON FREE PRESS VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS North Main Street in Waterbury, Vt., was underwater, and almost 50,000 Vermont utility customers were without power Monday in the wake of Tropical Storm Irene. Hundreds of roads were closed and a number of bridges were destroyed by the storm. Irene dumped 11 inches of rain on the state.
