Updated: August 29, 2011, 12:00 AM
In pictures: Hurricane Irene
NAGS HEAD, NC - AUGUST 28: Billy Stinson (L) comforts his daughter Erin Stinson as they sit on the steps where their cottage once stood 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/AFP== FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY == *** Local Caption *** 703752-01-09.jpg
A passerby observes a tree brought down by winds caused by Hurricane Irene on August 28, 2011 in Manasquan, New Jersey. While Hurricane Irene has now been downgraded to a tropical storm, it has knocked out power to more than 4.5 million people and is attr???
Residents of Stumpy Point, N.C. make their way into their flooded home following the effects of Hurricane Irene Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. Flood waters rose all across New Jersey on Sunday, closing roads from side streets to major highways as Hurricane Irene???
A Fairfield Beach Road home is submerged in Pine Creek in Fairfield, Conn. as treacherous weather caused by Tropical Storm Irene came through the area on Sunday Aug. 28, 2011. Tropical Storm Irene sent sea water flooding into shoreline communities and des???
Rescue personnel bring stranded residents to shore on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011, in Montpelier, Vt. Ten people were trapped by rising waters due to flash flooding caused by Tropical Storm Irene. All were rescued. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)
Residents on Foster Street in South Windsor, Conn., look over the mess of wires and down utility poles that were brought down during Irene, the hurricane that weakened to a tropical storm, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Journal Inquirer, Jim Michaud)
Bennington Police Chief Paul Doucette looks at a collapsed bridge on Route 9 in Woodford, Vt. on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. The remnants of Hurricane Irene dumped torrential rains on Vermont on Sunday, flooding rivers and closing roads from Massachusetts to t???
Denise Robinson clears out her destroyed beach home in the Sandbridge area of Virginia Beach after Hurricane Irene hit Virginia Beach, Va., Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. Officials speculate that a tornado swept through the area. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
A motorboat passes a submerged pick-up truck on Main St. in Washingtonville, N.Y., Sunday Aug. 28, 2011 following heavy rains. Stripped of hurricane rank, Tropical Storm Irene spent the last of its fury Sunday, leaving treacherous flooding and millions wi???
Streets of Long Beach Island, N.J. are flooded after Hurricane Irene moved through the area Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. Rivers and creeks surged toward potentially record levels late Sunday as Irene, just the third hurricane to come ashore in New Jersey in the???