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DEJA-VU: President Bush takes a walking tour of a Biloxi, Miss., neighborhood devastated by Hurricane Katrina in a visit in September 2005. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** In this June 14, 2010, file photo, Paris Hilton arrives at the Activision E3 2010 Preview event in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, file)

An oily sailboat heads out on a skimming mission in the Perdido Pass in Orange Beach, Ala., Thursday, July 1, 2010. A $4 million oil booming system at the opening of the pass came apart when six foot seas caused by Hurricane Alex battered the coast. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)

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** FILE ** This satellite image provided by NOAA shows Hurricane Alex as it comes ashore on a relatively unpopulated stretch of coast in Mexico's northern Tamaulipas state about 110 miles south of Brownsville Texas on Wednesday, June 30, 2010. (AP Photo/NOAA)

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Storm clouds created by Hurricane Alex are seen over shrimp boats modified to skim oil in Port Fourchon, Louisiana on Wednesday, June 30, 2010. Alex, the first hurricane of the Atlantic season, closed oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico and caused waves as high as 8 feet in the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill area. (Derick E. Hingle/Bloomberg)

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A man hauls a box to shore in preparation for the arrival of Hurricane Alex, the first Atlantic hurricane of the year, in La Carbonera, northeastern Mexico, on Wednesday, June 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

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Children evacuees look out from a convention center being used as a shelter several hours before the expected arrival of Hurricane Alex, the first Atlantic hurricane of the year, in Matamoros, northeastern Mexico, on the border with Texas on Wednesday, June 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

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Evacuees pictured inside a convention center being used as a shelter several hours before the expected arrival of Hurricane Alex, the first Atlantic hurricane of the year, in Matamoros, northeastern Mexico, on the border with Texas on Wednesday, June 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

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Texas State Guard Dennis McLane of Sugarland talks to an unidentified child at the Edcouch Elsa High School on Wednesday afternoon, June 30, 2010 in Elsa, Texas. The school was being used as a shelter for residents fleeing Hurricane Alex. (AP Photo/The Monitor, Delcia Lopez)

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Residents of Edinburg carry food and other belongings in to the shelter at Edinburg, Texas South Middle School on Wednesday, June 30, 2010. Hurricane Alex was expected to make land fall just south of the Texas border by nightfall. (AP Photo/The Monitor, Delcia Lopez)

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City of Edinburg street crews close a flooded street in downtown Edinburg, Texas on Wednesday, June 30, 2010. As Hurricane Alex inched closer to deep South Texas, residents in low-lying areas were experiencing more than eight inches of rain. (AP Photo/The Monitor, Delcia Lopez)

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Sergio Alvarez shovels seaweed off a boardwalk as the lingering effects of Tropical Storm Alex are felt along the Texas coast on Thursday, July 1, 2010 in South Padre Island, Texas. The Atlantic season's first hurricane largely spared Texas, which had prepared for a possible direct hit. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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Padre Boulevard floods as the early effects of Hurricane Alex are felt along the Texas coast on Wednesday, June 30, 2010, in South Padre Island, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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A motorist is assisted by passerbys as the early effects of Hurricane Alex are felt along the Texas coast on Wednesday, June 30, 2010 in South Padre Island, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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Dennis Barrett paddles his kayak down a flooded Padre Boulevard as the early effects of Hurricane Alex are felt along the Texas coast on Wednesday, June 30, 2010 in South Padre Island, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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This satellite image provided by NOAA shows Hurricane Alex as it comes ashore Wednesday on a relatively unpopulated stretch of coast in Mexico's northern Tamaulipas state, about 110 miles south of Brownsville, Texas. Alex is moving west near 10 mph. Maximum sustained winds are near 100 mph with higher gusts. Steady weakening is expected as the hurricane moves over land according to forecasters. (Associated Press/NOAA)

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This image provided by NOAA was acquired Tuesday June 29, 2010, at 5:32 p.m. EDT shows Hurricane Alex churning through the western Gulf, taking aim at the Mexico-Texas border and far away from the massive oil spill. (AP Photo/NOAA)

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Joan Woolley, a volunteer with Southern Baptist Disaster Relief Oklahoma, reaches for a tray of lasagne from a portable oven as she and other volunteers prepare meals for the people of Galveston, Texas, in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike in September 2008. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Brett Coomer)

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Chinese firemen evacuate a man trapped in the floods in Xiushui, in central China's Jiangxi province, on Sunday, June 20, 2010. Major rivers burst their banks in southern China, triggering massive floods that forced 860,000 to flee their homes, the government said Sunday. (AP Photo)

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A large funnel cloud touches down west of Albert Lea, Minn., early evening Thursday, June 17, 2010. The tornado was traveling northeast. Several tornadoes were reported in southern Minnesota and northern Iowa Thursday evening, causing three deaths and major property damage. (AP Photo/The Globe-Gazette, Arian Schuessler)