Betty Walsh, a local resident, crosses a flooded street in Red Hook, on August 28, 2011 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, after Tropical Storm Irene had passed by.(Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)
A NASA Goddard Space Flight Center handout photo taken by an Expedition 28 crew member aboard the International Space Station shows an image of Hurricane Irene off the east coast of the United States around 4:30 p.m. EDT, on August 26, 2011. (Reuters/NASA/Expedition 28 - ISS/Goddard Space Flight Center/Handout)
A man surveys the damage around a friend's home in the background as a sailboat is washed ashore as Hurricane Irene arrives on August 28, 2011 in Southampton, New York. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
A man stands in the middle of a deserted Broadway in Lower Manhattan, New York, early on August 28, 2011 as Hurricane Irene hits the city with rain and high winds. New York City resembled a ghost town after 370,000 people were told to evacuate flood-prone regions, including areas near Wall Street and at Coney Island. (Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images)
In this photo provided by the New York State Metropolitan Transportation Authority, two men push a cart through a deserted Grand Central Terminal in New York, on Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011. Metro North suspended service and Amtrak is running on a reduced schedule due to Hurricane Irene. (AP Photo/NY Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Marjorie Anders)
In this photo provided by the New York State Metropolitan Transportation Authority, an MTA employee fills an "AquaDam," placed across the Long Island Rail Road tracks at New York City's Penn Station, on Saturday, August 27, 2011. The temporary barrier was installed to help keep flood waters stirred up by Hurricane Irene out of Penn Station's tunnels.(AP Photo/NY Metropolitan Transportation Authority, John Kettel)
Waves crash over the shore during high tide during a storm surge from Hurricane Irene in Bayshore, New York, on Long Island, on August 28, 2011.(AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Boats sit in an almost empty channel as Hurricane Irene pushes the water out in to Albemarle Sound, on August 27, 2011 in Nags Head, North Carolina, (AP Photo/The News & Observer, Shawn Rocco)
Abandoned beach front houses are surrounded by rising water as the effects of Hurricane Irene are felt in Nags Head, North Carolina, on August 27, 2011 (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
A surfer braves the wind and waves at The Washout at Folly Beach created by Hurricane Irene, on August 26, 2011 in Folly Beach, South Carolina.(AP Photo/The Post And Courier, Sarah Bates)
A crayfish walks along a gas station parking lot in Millsboro, Delaware, early Sunday, August 28, 2011. The hurricane unloaded more than a foot of water on North Carolina, spun off tornadoes in Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, and left 3 million homes and businesses without power as it moved up the East Coast.(AP Photo/The Wilmington News-Journal, Suchat Pederson)
A shopper passes by empty shelves while looking for bottled water at a Stop and Shop at Rockaway Beach in New York, on August 26, 2011. (Reuters/Allison Joyce)
A Fairfield Beach Road home is submerged in Pine Creek in Fairfield, Connecticut, as treacherous weather caused by Tropical Storm Irene came through the area on August 28, 2011.(AP Photo/The Connecticut Post, Cathy Zuraw)
Sand covers the board walk after Hurricane Irene passed through in Ocean City, Maryland, on August 28, 2011. (Reuters/Molly Riley)
Billy Stinson comforts his daughter Erin Stinson as they sit on the steps where their cottage once stood, on August 28, 2011 in Nags Head, North Carolina. The cottage, built in 1903 and destroyed yesterday by Hurricane Irene, was one of the first vacation cottages built on Albemarle Sound in Nags Head. Stinson has owned the home, which is listed in the National Register of Historic Places, since 1963. "We were pretending, just for a moment, that the cottage was still behind us and we were just sitting there watching the sunset," said Erin afterward. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Melvin Flores uses a pail to scoop floodwaters out of his utility room in his apartment after rain from Hurricane Irene, on August 28, 2011, in Little Falls, New Jersey.(AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
An unidentified man hangs on to a branch in a rain swollen creek as he waits for rescuers in New City, New York, on August 28, 2011. He and three others went tubing in the creek and had to be rescued by New City and Stony Point fire departments' water rescue teams. With the rains and wind of Tropical Storm Irene heading north, some people went out for recreation in the unusual conditions left in the storm's wake. ( AP Photo/The Journal News, Peter Carr)
The American flag flies in tatters above the U.S. Capitol after Hurricane Irene moved through the nation's capital, on August 28, 2011 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
A rainbow appears over a building as sand is blown down Long Beach Park as the sun sets and the sky clears from Hurricane Irene in Long Beach, New York, on August 28, 2011.(Reuters/Lucas Jackson)
A young boy leans into powerful wind gusts near the Whitehall Terminal in Lower Manhattan just hours after Hurricane Irene blew through the city on August 28, 2011 in New York City. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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