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Amel Sincere empties out her car after receded floodwaters submerged the parking lot of the Waterford Apartments in Havertown, Pa., Friday, Oct. 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Many businesses along 21st Street in Norfolk, Va., around Llewellyn Avenue placed sandbags in front of their doorways to keep storm water from entering the stores on Thursday, Sept. 30, 2010. (AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, Stephen M. Katz)

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A snapped tree lies on top a home on Buffalo Avenue in Norfolk, Va., on Thursday, Sept. 30, 2010. Much of Virginia remains under flash flood warnings after a storm dumped up to 7 inches of rain, closing roads and knocking out power for thousands of residents. (AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, Preston Gannaway)

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The outline of the Washington Monument can barely be seen from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 30, 2010, during a heavy rain storm. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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Joshua Pattel, 6, of Brisbane, Australia, plays in water flowing down the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, on Thursday, Sept. 30, 2010, during a heavy rain storm. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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M/I Homes is building 47 town homes on 2,178-square-foot sites at Station View in Ashburn. The three-bedroom, 2 1/2-bath Ballston model homes have approximately 2,350 finished square feet and are base-priced from the upper $300,000s.

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This NOAA satellite image taken Thursday, Sept. 30, 2010, at 1:45 a.m. EDT shows widespread cloud cover over the Eastern Seaboard as an elongated low pressure trough over the East and the remnants of Tropical Storm Nicole usher significant tropical moisture northward, into the region. (AP PHOTO/WEATHER UNDERGROUND)

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A rescue worker uses a zip-line to cross a civilian through an overflowed river in the town of Santa Maria de Tlahuitoltepec, Mexico, Tuesday Sept. 28, 2010. A mudslide first thought to have buried hundreds of people has left 11 missing and there are no confirmed dead, authorities said, backing off earlier predictions of a catastrophe in Mexico's rain-soaked southern state of Oaxaca. (AP Photo/Luis Alberto Cruz Hernandez)

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Workers remove mud from a house in Santa Maria de Tlahuitoltepec, Oaxaca state, Mexico, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. A mudslide first thought to have buried hundreds of people has left 11 missing and there are no confirmed deaths, authorities said Tuesday night, backing off earlier predictions of a catastrophe in Mexico's rain-soaked southern state of Oaxaca. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)

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Cars are buried under mud after a landslide in the town of Santa Maria de Tlahuitoltepec, Mexico Tuesday Sept. 28, 2010. A mudslide first thought to have buried hundreds of people has left 11 missing and there are no confirmed dead, authorities said, backing off earlier predictions of a catastrophe in Mexico's rain-soaked southern state of Oaxaca. (AP Photo/Luis Alberto Cruz Hernandez)

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Men inspect a vehicle buried under mud after a landslide in the town of Santa Maria de Tlahuitoltepec, Mexico Tuesday Sept. 28, 2010. A mudslide first thought to have buried hundreds of people has left 11 missing and there are no confirmed dead, authorities said, backing off earlier predictions of a catastrophe in Mexico's rain-soaked southern state of Oaxaca. (AP Photo/Luis Alberto Cruz Hernandez)

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Overall view of the town of Santa Maria de Tlahuitoltepec, Mexico, Tuesday Sept. 28, 2010, after a landslide occurred. A mudslide first thought to have buried hundreds of people has left 11 missing and there are no confirmed dead, authorities said, backing off earlier predictions of a catastrophe in Mexico's rain-soaked southern state of Oaxaca. (AP Photo/Luis Alberto Cruz Hernandez)

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People remove mud from a street after a landslide in Santa Maria de Tlahuitoltepec, Mexico, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. A mudslide first thought to have buried hundreds of people has left 11 missing and there are no confirmed deaths, authorities said Tuesday night, backing off earlier predictions of a catastrophe in Mexico's rain-soaked southern state of Oaxaca. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)

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People rest at a temporary shelters in Santa Maria de Tlahuitoltepec, Oaxaca state, Mexico, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. The mudslide has left 11 people missing and there are no confirmed dead, authorities said Tuesday night, backing off earlier predictions of a catastrophe in Mexico's rain-soaked southern state of Oaxaca. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)

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A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite image taken on Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010, at 1:45 a.m. EDT shows Tropical Depression 16 in the northwestern Caribbean Sea. The system is generating numerous strong rain showers and thunderstorms over Jamaica, Cuba and Haiti, and strong rain showers and thunderstorms also are approaching South Florida. Over the United States, a stationary front along the Eastern Seaboard is supporting moderate to heavy rains from Florida northward to the Mid-Atlantic. (AP Photo/Weather Underground)

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A girl plays in the sprinklers to beat the heat in Monterey Park, Calif., on Monday, Sept. 27, 2010. Downtown Los Angeles' record temperature of 113 degrees was part of an onslaught of temperatures well over 100 degrees in many California cities ranging from Anaheim, home of Disneyland, to San Luis Obispo on the usually balmy Central Coast. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

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FILE - In this July 19, 2010 file photo, actress Gloria Stuart poses for a portrait in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, file)

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FILE - In this Aug. 18, 2010 file photo, Haiti's presidential candidate and hip hop singer Wyclef Jean, speaks during an interview at his mother's house in Croix de Bouquets, Haiti. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, file)

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Stanley Martin Homes is building 55 single-family homes on quarter-acre sites at the Woods at Myrtle Point in California, near Solomon's Island. The homes have 2,638 to 3,292 finished square feet, with base prices from $329,990 to $372,990.

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In this Sept. 13, 2010 photo, a malnourished Pakistani boy, who came from a camp for people displaced by floods, rests on his bed during a power outage at the Railway Hospital in Sukkur, Sindh province, southern Pakistan. Medical experts warn the real catastrophe is moving much slower than the floodwaters. Children already sick or weak in poor rural areas prior to the floods are now fighting to stay alive as diarrhea, respiratory diseases and malaria attack their emaciated bodies. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)