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The statue of Queensland's famous former Rugby League star Wally Lewis is fitted out with water wings, scuba mask and snorkel is seen outside the Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane Australia, Wednesday Jan. 12, 2011, The stadium was flooded Wednesday as the rising Brisbane River hit the inner-city. (AP Photo/Brad Marsellos)

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An entire suburb is submerged outside Ipswich, west of Brisbane, Australia, Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011. Emergency sirens blared across Australia's third-largest city Wednesday as floodwaters that have torn a deadly path across the northeast poured into an empty downtown, swamping neighborhoods in what may be Brisbane's worst flooding in 100 years. (AP Photo)

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In this photo taken on Friday, Dec. 10, 2010, actor Stephen Dorff poses for a photo in Beverly Hills, Calif. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

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Roy Williams of Westfield, Mass., shovels snow in front of his vehicle on an entrance ramp on Interstate 91 during a winter storm in Windsor, Conn., on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011. Mr. Williams said a snowplow clearing the highway had passed by and blocked him in. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

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From left, truckers Bill Dougherty, Chis Vlad and Jim Plewinski bide their time on Interstate 285 Tuesday in Atlanta as their trucks sit stranded for 24 hours by a winter storm that turned the road into a sheet of ice. (Associated Press)

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South Sudanese arrive in the Southern Sudan capital of Juba by Nile River barge on Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

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A police officer examines a car after it slid into a power pole Monday during a snowstorm in Charlotte, N.C. Sleet, ice and several inches of snow covered Southern states from Louisiana to the Carolinas. (Associated Press)

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Commuters slowly head toward uptown Charlotte, N.C., early Monday, Jan. 10, 2011, on snow covered roads. Sleet, ice and several inches of snow, as much as 9 inches in some places, blanketed states from Louisiana to the Carolinas mostly unaccustomed to arctic weather and caused at least three deaths and left thousands without power. (AP Photo/Charlotte Observer, Davie Hinshaw )

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City contractors spread sand on roadways in the early morning hours after an overnight winter storm that has deposited several inches of snow Monday, Jan. 10, 2011, in Johns Creek, Ga. (AP Photo/John Amis)

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Brad McCook shovels snow in front of the double-barreled cannon at City Hall on Monday, Jan. 10, 2011, in Athens, Ga. Approximately five inches of snow fell overnight before changing over to sleet. (AP Photo/Athens Banner-Herald/David Manning)

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Snow covers shrubbery in the median near Interstate 485 in Charlotte, N.C., early Monday, Jan. 10, 2011. Sleet, ice and several inches of snow, as much as 9 inches in some places, blanketed states from Louisiana to the Carolinas mostly unaccustomed to arctic weather and caused at least three deaths and left thousands without power. (AP Photo/Charlotte Observer, Davie Hinshaw )

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Two runners brave the snow Monday, Jan. 10, 2011, in Knoxville, Tenn. The National Weather Service has posted a winter weather advisory for most of East Tennessee with significant snowfall accumulations expected. (AP Photo/ J. Miles Cary, Knoxville News Sentinel)

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Livia Soares, 4, of Gainsville, Fla., samples her first snow at Pritchard Park in Asheville, N.C., Monday, Jan. 10, 2011, while visiting Asheville with her father, Andre, and mother Lisiane. The couple moved to Florida from tropical Brazil and, like their daughter, they had never seen snow and came to Asheville when they heard the storm was coming. (AP Photo/Asheville Citizen-Times, John Coutlakis)

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A statue of the Belmont University bear mascot is covered in snow on Monday, Jan. 10, 2011, in Nashville, Tenn. Sleet, ice and several inches of snow, as much as 9 inches in some places, blanketed states from Louisiana to the Carolinas mostly unaccustomed to arctic weather and caused at least three deaths and left thousands without power. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

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** FILE ** Snow falls against the backdrop of the Georgia Capitol on Sunday, Jan. 9, 2011, in Atlanta. The inauguration of Gov.-elect Nathan Deal on Monday was moved indoors from the Capitol steps to the House chamber because of the weather. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

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People cling to railings and metal fences on a flooded street in Toowoomba, Australia, during a flash flood Monday, Jan. 10, 2011. Flash floods swept through the northeastern Australian community killing one woman, trapping others in cars and leaving some clinging to trees as relentless rains brought more misery to a region battling its worst flooding in decades. (AP Photo/ABC)

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A home condemned from a past landslide is seen just down the street from where a new landslide dropped the back yards of six other homes overlooking the Shorecliffs Golf Club in San Clemente, Calif., 25 to 50 feet into a ravine below, Friday, Jan. 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Orange County Register, Ken Steinhardt)