Photos: Hurricane Irene

Flood waters from the Passaic River fill the streets covering automobiles including a Chevrolet SUV days after Hurricane Irene in Paterson, New Jersey.  (Mark Dye / Reuters)

Residents use paddle on a boat as they examine flooding in the town of Totowa, N.J.  (Lucas Jackson / Reuters)

Men discard destroyed items on a flooded street on August 31, 2011 in Wallington, New Jersey.  (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

A worker retrieves items from a factory in the flood waters of the Passaic River days after the passing of Hurricane Irene in Paterson.  (Mark Dye / Reuters)

Flood waters from the Passaic River engulf a service station after Hurricane Irene in Paterson.  (Brendan McDermid / Reuters)

A trailer sits on the beach at the North Beach Campground after being washed out by Hurricane Irene, at Cape Hatteras National Seashore in Rodanthe, North Carolina.  (Jose Luis Magaua / Reuters)

A resident walks near a trailer on the beach after it was washed out by Hurricane Irene at Cape Hatteras National Seashore in Rodanthe, North Carolina.  (Jose Luis Magaua / Reuters)

A car passes a section of Route 112 that was washed out during Hurricane Irene in Halifax, Vermont.  (Brian Snyder / Reuters)

B.J. Cahoon (L), 23, kisses his fiancee Sabra Nethercutt, 20, while they wash down bedrooms in her parent’s house the day after they survived Hurricane Irene on Goose Creek Island in Lowland, North Carolina. It is estimated only 10 of 500 residents on Goose Creek Island did not lose everything.  (Sara D. Davis/Getty Images)

Bravo Company 1st of 120 out of Whiteville hand out bags of ice to citizens stranded after Hurricane Irene on Goose Creek Island in Lowland, North Carolina.  (Sara D. Davis/Getty Images)

Power company workers direct traffic away from a gasoline tanker truck, that had a large tree fall on it, and string of power lines.  (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

President Barack Obama (C) speaks with Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano (L) and FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate on the aftermath of Hurricane Irene from the Rose Garden of the White House.  (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Powerful wind buffet tourists near the Whitehall Terminal in Lower Manhattan just hours after Hurricane Irene blew through the city.  (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

A fallen tree, which also knocked over a power line, is seen on Loughboro Road after Hurricane Irene swept through Washington, D.C. on Aug. 28.   (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)

Waves are seen crashing around homes as Hurricane Irene hits on Aug. 28 in Hampton Bays, N.Y.   (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

River debris is seen washed up along the Alexandria shore the morning after Hurricane Irene passed by Washington, D.C.   (Benjamin Myers / Reuters)

Robert Dawkins of Alexandria, Va., walks amongst a downed tree and power line lying across the road on Aug. 28.  (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)

Waves and storm surge pound the boardwalk and the beach at first light as Hurricane Irene slams into Asbury Park, N.J. on Aug. 28.   (Chip East / Reuters)

Neighbors take photographs of one of five large trees that were knocked down by Hurricane Irene‘s high winds in front of the East River Cooperative Village apartment buildings along Grand Avenue on Aug. 28 in New York City.   (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Waves and storm surge pound the boardwalk and the beach at first light as Hurricane Irene slams into Asbury Park, N.J. on Aug. 28.   (Chip East / Reuters)

A boy stands on a newspaper box in a flooded street in the Soho section of Manhattan on Aug. 28.   (Mike Segar / Reuters)

Mark Roberts walks his dog Molly down a street littered with debris left behind in the wake of Hurricane Irene on Aug. 28 in Kill Devil Hills, N.C.   (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

A person walks through a flooded street after Irene on Aug. 28 in the Red Hook neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York City.   (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

A police car drives around downed trees in Brooklyn during heavy rain and winds on Aug. 28 in New York City.   (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

A person walks down a street in Brooklyn during heavy rain and winds on Aug. 28 in New York City.   (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

A New York City Police Department car drives through water at an intersection near Battery Park in Lower Manhattan in New York on Aug. 28.   (Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images)

A fallen wooden state park fences is seen on the ground near the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C.   (Benjamin Myers/Reuters)

A person walks by downed trees in Brooklyn during heavy rain and winds from Irene on Aug. 28 in New York City.   (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Revellers play in the puddles during Irene in New York‘s Times Square on Aug. 28.   (Brendan McDermid / Reuters)

A man walks in a flooded street in Hoboken, N.J. on Aug. 28.  (Kena Betancur / Reuters)

People walk in a flooded street in Hoboken, N.J. on Aug. 28.  (Kena Betancur / Reuters)

Car drives into a flooded area in lower Manhattan as Hurricane Irene closed in on New York City on Aug. 28.   (Mike Segar / Reuters)

A sailboat is washed ashore as Irene arrives on Aug. 28 in Southampton, N.Y.  (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Gary Niren surveys a tree that fell on the house he rents as a result of Hurricane Irene on Aug. 28 in Virginia Beach, Va.   (Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)

Water surrounds a home as Hurricane Irene arrives on Aug. 28 in Southampton, N.Y.   (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Flood waters caused by Hurricane Irene raise on a residential street in Ocean City, Md. on Aug. 27.   (Molly Riley/Reuters)

This NOAA satellite image, taken and released on Aug. 27, shows Irene after it made landfall along the U.S. Atlantic coastline.   (Ho New/Reuters)

A firefighter wades through floodwater as they respond to a call of a gas leak during Hurricane Irene on Aug. 27 in Kill Devil Hills, N.C.   (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Sand barriers are seen on the beach in preparation of the arrival of Hurricane Irene  (Mike Stobe/Getty)

Human Services Janet Napolitano and President Barack Obama attend a midday daily video teleconference led by FEMA to at the monitor the federal response Hurricane Irene.  (Ron Sachs-Pool/Getty)

(L to R) White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley, Secretary of Health and Human Services Janet Napolitano and President Barack Obama (L) listen to FEMA administrator Craig Fugate during a midday daily video teleconference.  (Ron Sachs-Pool/Getty)

Yellow Caution tape blocks off an entrance to a closed subway station in New York’s Times Square.  (Brendan McDermid/Reuters)

A truck drives through flooded road as Hurricane Irene hits Cape Hatteras National Seashore in Salvo, North Carolina.  (Jose Luis Magana/Reuters)

A National Guard vehicle plows through floodwaters caused by Hurricane Irene in Ocean City, Maryland.  (Molly Riley/Reuters)

: Dave Leverton (L) and Phillip Entwistle fill up bags with sand in preparation for Hurricane Irene on August 26, 2011 in Ocean City, Maryland.  (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Dylan Carey (R) fills sand bags with friends in preparation for Hurricane Irene at 128th Street beach August 26, 2011 in the Rockaways section of the Queens borough of New York City.  (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

People shop at a grocery store in Coney Island before the arrival of Hurricane Irene.  (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Officials at the American Red Cross in Greater New York Emergency Operations Center discuss their preparations for the landfall of Hurricane Irene in New York August 25, 2011.  (Lucas Jackson/Reuters)

Connor Murray takes advantage of the heavy surf near the Ocean Crest Pier in Oak Island, North Carolina, prior to the arrival of Hurricane Irene August 25, 2011.  (Randall Hill/Reuters)

Private ambulances prepare for the transport of patients from Coney Island Hospital August 26, 2011 as evacuations began in low-lying parts of New York.  (Timothy A. Clary/Getty Images)