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FILE -In this Saturday Aug. 27, 2011 file photo, People talk at a sandbagged entrance of the Manayunk Brewery and Restaurant, which is situated next to the Schuylkill river, as the establishment prepares for Hurricane Irene in Philadelphia. The National Hurricane Center will start issuing advisories giving deadlines for when communities should complete their storm preparations. The experimental advisories will show when tropical-storm force winds may hit particular communities to help them understand when it's too late to put up storm shutters or evacuate. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma, File)
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FILE- In this Friday, Aug. 26, 2011 file photo, Home Depot employees, Richard Howell, left, and Farid Elattar, right, load up emergency generators for Virginia Beach residents in preparation for the arrival of Hurricane Irene in Virginia Beach, Va. The National Hurricane Center will start issuing advisories giving deadlines for when communities should complete their storm preparations. The experimental advisories will show when tropical-storm force winds may hit particular communities to help them understand when it's too late to put up storm shutters or evacuate. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)
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In this photo taken Friday, May 12, 2017, National Hurricane Center Director Dr. Rick Knabb talks to a reporter, at the U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Miami, at the Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport, in Opa-locka, Fla. On his last day as hurricane center director before returning to The Weather Channel, Knabb said better data and better computer models help create in narrower cone. A narrower cone gets more and more useless for telling you where the impacts of wind and water are going to be. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
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FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012 file photo, waves wash over a roller coaster from a Seaside Heights, N.J., amusement park that fell in the Atlantic Ocean during Superstorm Sandy. Meteorologists are now as good with their five-day forecasts as they were with their three-day forecasts in 2005. Both government and private weather forecasting companies are approaching the point where they get tomorrow’s high temperature right nearly 80 percent of the time. It was 66 percent 11 years ago, according to ForecastWatch, a private firm that rates accuracy of weather forecasts. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)
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FILE - In this Oct. 5, 2015 file photo, Hunter Baker drives his boat down a flooded East Black Creek Road to his home following heavy rains in Florence, S.C. Meteorologists are now as good with their five-day forecasts as they were with their three-day forecasts in 2005. Both government and private weather forecasting companies are approaching the point where they get tomorrow’s high temperature right nearly 80 percent of the time. It was 66 percent 11 years ago, according to ForecastWatch, a private firm that rates accuracy of weather forecasts. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
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FILE - In this May 23, 2017 file photo, grounds crew puts sand on the field as mild rain dampens the field at the end of the fourth inning of a baseball game between the Washington Nationals and Seattle Mariners in Washington. The forecast for Washington was afternoon thunderstorms so the Washington Nationals moved their game from 4:05 p.m. to 12:05 p.m. The game got in, the Nats won, and the storms arrived on schedule not too long after the regularly scheduled start time. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
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In this Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017, photo, Chevrolet cars are on sale at a dealership lot in Pittsburgh. On Thursday, June 1, 2017, the major automakers report sales for the month of May. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
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In this Monday, May 29, 2017, photo, a crew works on electrical lines after a weekend storm knocked out power to thousands of Tennessee residents in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/Adrian Sainz)
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In this April 26, 2017, photo Jim O'Neill walks across a makeshift boardwalk he built in his back yard in Manahawkin N.J., because the property is almost always under water, even on sunny days. He lives in a low-lying area near the Jersey shore, and is often affected by back bay flooding. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
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This March 14, 2017, photo shows Jim and Maryann O'Neill's home in a back bay neighborhood of Manahawkin N.J., surrounded by water after a moderate storm. Back bay flooding is a type of recurring nuisance flooding that affects millions of Americans and which experts agree has not been as widely addressed as oceanfront flooding, in part because potential solutions are much more difficult. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
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This April 26, 2017 photo shows a garage door on a home in Ocean City on the edge of a back bay that floods regularly, and has rusted the metal door. Scientists and people living in back-bay areas behind barrier islands say flooding is increasing, even as the problem gets less attention and money than flooding along the ocean. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
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This March 14, 2017, photo shows the flooded streets of a back bay neighborhood in Manahawkin N.J., after a moderate storm. Scientists and people living in back-bay areas behind barrier islands say flooding is increasing, even as the problem gets less attention and money than flooding along the ocean. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
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In this April 26, 2017, photo Jim O'Neill walks through a flooded street in front of his home in Manahawkin N.J., after a moderate storm. He lives in a low-lying area near the Jersey shore, and is often affected by back bay flooding, a type of recurring nuisance flooding that's affecting millions of Americans. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
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In this grab taken from video, people stand near to a vehicle covered with branches from a fallen tree following a storm, in a residential area of Moscow, Russia, Monday, May 29, 2017. Thunderstorms and strong winds buffeted Moscow and its surrounding areas on Monday, killing 11 people and injuring dozens, Russian officials said. (AP)
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Baseball fans wait out a rain delay in the fourth inning in a baseball game between the Detroit Tigers and the Chicago White Sox, Sunday, May 28, 2017, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
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This Feb. 15, 2017 photo shows railroad tracks along the West Virginia town of Matoaka, which once carried coal trains several times a day and at night. In October 2015, Norfolk Southern discontinued regular freight service. The passenger station there closed in the 1950s. (AP Photo/Michael Virtanen)
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FILE - In this Thursday, May 18, 2017, file photo, Colorado Rockies pitcher German Marquez throws against the Minnesota Twins in the first inning during the first baseball game of a doubleheader in Minneapolis. Rockies right-hander Marquez will be the third straight rookie the Colorado Rockies have started against St. Louis in the series that concludes Sunday, May 28. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)
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Chicago Cubs' Ian Happ walks off after striking out against the Los Angeles Dodgers during the seventh inning of a baseball game in Los Angeles, Saturday, May 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
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A drilling crew drills one hundred down taking soil samples on the southern end of the Mud Creek slide as it covers Highway One in southern Monterey County on the coast in Big Sur, Calif., Thursday, May 25, 2017. One of the wettest winters in decades in California has triggered slides and road closures along the central coast's Big Sur, forcing some resorts to close and others to use helicopters to carry in guests and supplies. (Vern Fisher /The Monterey County Herald via AP)
