Billy Stinson comforts his daughter Erin Stinson as they sit on the steps where their cottage once stood 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.
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A man runs along the beach at Coney Island beach at dawn in New York. Hurricane Irene wreaked havoc on the East Coast and slowly weakened into a tropical storm before making a third landfall at Coney Island. Irene left at least 24 dead across eight states.
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People stand on the beach at Coney Island beach at sunrise in New York City.
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Large sections of a golf course is flooded by Hurricane Irene in southern N.J.
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A surfer passes the broken end of the Bogue Inlet Fishing Pier in Emerald Isle, North Carolina on Sunday, after Hurricane Irene passed through the area.
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Water covers Main Street in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Irene in Waterbury, Vt.
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A flooded road is seen in Hatteras Island, N.C. after Hurricane Irene swept through the area Saturday cutting the roadway in five locations.
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Residents of Stumpy Point, N.C. make their way into their flooded home following the effects of Hurricane Irene.
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Swimmers play in the waves during the storm surge from Hurricane Irene in the Mansfield Grove section of East Haven, Connecticut.
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A Beach Patrol Headquarters used by the City of Long Beach lifeguards was lifted and moved to the boardwalk by the strong winds of Tropical Storm Irene as it swept through Long Island on Sunday.
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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 .
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A man pedals through a flooded street in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, New York.
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A man surveys the deep water on ManhattanÃs West Side after Tropical Storm Irene passed through the city.
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A New York City taxi is stranded in deep water on ManhattanÃs West Side after Tropical Storm Irene passed through the city.
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Downed power lines stretch across Metro North Train tracks in Valhalla, N.Y. Although downgraded from hurricane status, Tropical Storm Irene unleashed furious wind and rain on New York, flooding streets, downing trees and power lines.
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Two Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority trains sit in water on flooded tracks at Trenton train station in Trenton, N.J.
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Waves crash along a seawall as Tropical Storm Irene, downgraded from a hurricane, slammed into Fairhaven , Mass. From North Carolina to New Jersey, Hurricane Irene appeared to have fallen short of the doomsday predictions, but more than 4.5 million homes and businesses along the East Coast reportedly lost power, and at least 11 deaths were blamed on the storm.
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Peter Monaco, of Dunstable, Mass., (C), and two unidentified women are buffeted by strong winds from Tropical Storm Irene as they walk along a costal road in Edgartown, Mass., on the island of Martha’s Vineyard.
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A downed tree is seen in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene in Takoma Park, Maryland.
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Mark Wade (R) chases his friend Craig Busick (C) as he surfs a large puddle in front of the Board of Education in Centreville, MD.
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An uprooted tree and hanging powerlines block Reno Road in the northwest of Washington, DC after Hurricane Irene swept through the area.
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An Oak Bluffs fire department vehicle is buffeted by strong winds and ocean spray from Tropical Storm Irene while driving along a costal road in Edgartown, Mass., on the island of Martha’s Vineyard.
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Waves kicked up by Tropical Storm Irene crash into homes on Wilbur’s Point in Fairhaven, Mass.
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Ken Thompson, right, and Ray Morrison make their way toward their house along a seawall as winds from Tropical Storm Irene batter the shore in Fairhaven, Mass.
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A sailboat driven by winds from Tropical Storm Irene is wrecked against the Fairhaven Bridge in Fairhaven, Mass.
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A resident tries to unblock a sewage grate to free floodwater on Coney Island after Hurricane Irene hit. The death toll from Irene has risen to 12 across five eastern US states, as the hurricane was downgraded to a tropical storm on its way to NYC.
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A boy floats on a newspaper box in a flooded street in the Soho section of Manhattan after Hurricane Irene passed.
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A taxi cab drives through a flooded lane of FDR Drive on the east side of New York. Seawater surged into the streets of Manhattan on Sunday as Tropical Storm Irene slammed into New York, downgraded from a hurricane but still unleashing furious wind and rain.
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A couple stands in floodwater along the seawall in Battery Park as Hurricane Irene passes through New York.
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People walk through flooded streets after the pass of Hurricane Irene at Hoboken, New Jersey. Hurricane Irene battered New York with heavy winds and driving rain on Sunday, knocking out power and flooding some of Lower Manhattan’s deserted streets even as it lost some of its strength.
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Ryan Wright walks on the street through flooding triggered by storm surge and winds from Hurricane Irene in Montauk, New York.
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Kids play in the water on a flooded section of South Street in New York soon after Hurricane Irene passed through the city with rain and high winds.
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A fallen tree blown over as a result of Hurricane Irene rests on the roof of a house in Easthampton, New York.
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A bicyclist makes his way past a stranded taxi on a flooded New York City Street as Tropical Storm Irene passes through the city. Although downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm, Irene’s torrential rain coupled with high winds and tides worked in concert to flood parts of the city.
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Brian Brown, left, of California, Md., and Ryan Frederick, of Hollywood, Md., wade through floodwater in Leonardtown, Md., after Hurricane Irene flooded the area.
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Waves break onto the beach pushed by the storm surge and winds from Hurricane Irene in Montauk, New York.
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Onlookers get a close look from the aftermath of Hurricane Irene of a fallen tree on East 43rd Street in Tudor City Historic Place in New York City.
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A Providence City truck was struck by a falling tree from the winds of Tropical Storm Irene in Providence, R.I. The worker was taken to a local hospital. Irene was to continue weakening as it passes over New England, and it’s expected to move over eastern Canada by Sunday night. It remains a massive storm, however, with powerful winds extending more than 300 miles from the center.
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Motorists drive through a flooded street in Leonardtown, Md., after Hurricane Irene passed trough.
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Three friends escaped unharmed just after midnight when this huge tree crash onto their car in Brooklyn.
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The MTA’s 148 Street yard at the end of the 3 line in Harlem under water.
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The MTA’s 148 Street yard at the end of the 3 line in Harlem under water.
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The Sing Sing Creek overflows onto Metro-North Railroad’s Hudson Line at Ossining station.
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The Sing Sing Creek overflows onto Metro-North Railroad’s Hudson Line at Ossining station.
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Waves crash around a home as Hurricane Irene arrives Sunday in Southampton.
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SoHo residents Amy Eagle (R) and Rich Thompson take an early morning walk just before high tide along the World Financial Center esplanade.
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Hurricane Irene’s wind and rain pour down as North Cove Marina employees work to secure gangways, docks and boats as seawater comes over the marina’s low walls just before high tide in the World Financial Center Plaza Sunday.
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Hurricane Irene’s wind and rain pour down as North Cove Marina employees work to secure gangways, docks and boats as seawater comes over the marina’s low walls just before high tide in the World Financial Center Plaza Sunday.
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Manhattan and the Manhattan Bridge are hit by Hurricane Irene Sunday.
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A car makes its way through a flooded street in Brooklyn Sunday.
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A man walks across 42nd Street in Times Square as Hurricane Irene hits the city.
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Waves crash over the shore during high tide during a storm surge from Hurricane Irene in Bayshore, LI, Sunday.
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Heavy rain falls as a police car drives in Battery Park City as Hurricane Irene approaches Sunday.
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Rising water laps over the sea wall at Battery Park Sunday.
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Rising water laps along the seawall in Battery Park as Hurricane Irene approaches Sunday.
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A man walks in a flooded street in Hoboken, NJ, Sunday.
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People walk in a flooded street in Hoboken, NJ, Sunday.
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As rains from Hurricane Irene fall, people carry umbrellas as they walk past the sandbagged entrance to the Aeropostale store in Times Square.
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A NYPD car drives in Times Square Sunday.
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Hurricane Irene is seen on the coast of North Carolina in the Atlantic Ocean. Irene, now a Category 1 storm with sustained winds of 85 miles per hour, is making its way up the eastern coast.
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Workers board up the historic Flatiron Building with the Empire State Building in the background in New York. There are approximately 370,000 city residents in low lying areas are under a mandatory evacuation order ahead of Hurricane Irene.
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A downed tree blocks Maple Street as Hurricane Irene hits Greenville, North Carolina.
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A row of beachfront houses, some condemned before the arrival of Hurricane Irene, get lashed by wind, rain, and the rising Atlantic Ocean during the full-force of the hurricane’s impact near Nags Head, North Carolina.
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Briggs McEwan walks to his home as Hurricane Irene hits Cape Hatteras National Seashore in Salvo, North Carolina. Hurricane Irene howled ashore in North Carolina with heavy winds, rain and surf on Saturday on a path threatening the densely populated U.S. East Coast with flooding and power outages.
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One of two people rescued from a sailboat, uses a line to make their way onto the beach on Willoughby Spit in Norfolk after they and another person were rescued from the boat that foundered in the waters of the Chesapeake Bay. A rescuer, left, waits for s second person to exit the boat.
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Mike Julian, of Bowie, Md., pumps water out of one of his boats used for his business during Hurricane Irene in Annapolis, Md.
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Boats are bashed against the shore and a dock in Morehead City, as Hurricane Irene hits the North Carolina coast.
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Waves crash onto a beach in Ocean City, as Hurricane Irene heads toward the Maryland coast.
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Heavy rain pours down on Deleware Rt. 1 in a deserted Dewey Beach.
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A utility pole leans over the street from winds off the back end of Hurricane Irene as the storm came ashore near Atlantic Beach, North Carolina.
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A truck drives through flooded road as Hurricane Irene hits Cape Hatteras National Seashore in Salvo, North Carolina.
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Surfer, Tayler Brothers, of Osprey, Fla., catches a wave as a pelican rides the updraft of the surf in Ponce Inlet, Fla., Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011. Surfers flocked to the beach to catch the remnant waves of Hurricane Irene.
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A man walks along Avalon Pier in Kill Devil Hills, Outer Banks, N.C., Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011, as Hurricane Irene reaches the North Carolina coast. Irene slammed into North Carolina’s coast around dawn Saturday with howling winds and drenching rains amid reports of flooding and hundreds of thousands of people without power.
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A man jogs past sandbags used to control possible floods in downtown Manhattan yesterday. New York on Friday ordered residents in low-lying areas to evacuate before the onslaught of Hurricane Irene this weekend.
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Rain pours down in Kill Devil Hills, N.C., early Saturday as Hurricane Irene’s outer bands reached the area.
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More wind-swept rain as the outer bands of Hurricane Irene pounded Kill Devil Hills, N.C. early Saturday
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A television reporter does a live shot from a hotel parking lot at daybreak as Hurricane Irene comes ashore near Morehead City, North Carolina.
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Residents in a Battery Park City high rise apartment buildings tape their windows Friday night in anticipation of the arrival of Hurricane Irene.
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It’s always sad when the vacation comes to an end. President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle and their daughters walk across the South Lawn of the White House last night after they returned home from their family vacation on Martha’s Vineyard, due to Hurricane Irene.
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A view of the deserted beach in Atlantic City, New Jersey yesterday.
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A downpour from Hurricane Irene slows traffic in downtown Myrtle Beach, S.C., on Friday.
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A message is left for Hurricane Irene on one house (left) as a resident boards up another in anticipation of the arrival of Hurricane Irene in Nags Head, N.C.
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Joe Phibbs (left) of Chesapeake, Va. Zell Walker, of Hampton, Va. (center), and Eric Welp of Md., fold a sail in preparation for the arrival of Hurricane Irene in Norfolk, Va.
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Storm clouds pass over National Park during the third inning of a baseball game between the Arizona Diamondbacks and Washington Nationals.
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Wesley Finnerty of Baltimore and her son, Naylor, 14, pack their cars up as they prepare to leave Stone Harbor, N.J., after mandatory evacuation of Cape May County was issued.
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A pedestrian walks in a rain storm in Washington Park in Albany, N.Y., on Thursday. Parts of upstate New York could see heavy rain this weekend as Hurricane Irene moves up the East Coast.
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Beach goers brave a feeder band from Hurricane Irene as they walk along Dania Beach, Fla. as the storm threatens to become the most powerful hurricane to hit the East Coast in seven years.
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Atlantic City lifeguard, John Malecki, and Lt. John Ammerman, of the Chelsea section of Atlantic City, put a lifeguard stand in a truck as they clear the beach at Kentucky Avenue in Atlantic City, N.J.
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Foreign students board a bus at the Convention Center to be evacuated from the resort, in Ocean City, Md.
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Shoppers stock up on water from rapidly emptying shelves at a grocery store in Far Rockaway, N.Y.
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A sign warns of the voluntary evacuation that was set by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie as the New Jersey Shore braces itself for Hurricane Irene.
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John Oliver takes photos of his boarded up home in Atlantic Beach, N.C., as Hurricane Irene heads toward the North Carolina coast. Oliver, who was taking the photos for insurance purposes, plans on leaving Friday morning and staying with friends in Greensboro, N.C.
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A woman reacts after her flight is canceled at Miami International Airport due to Hurricane Irene.
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Ismael Ramirez, right, drills a plywood board on a home an Ortley Beach, N.J., as his brother Jorge Ramirez measures a board as the handymen work on boarding up a home for a New Jersey Shore resident in preparation Thursday.
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With storm clouds looming in the background, Charlotte, N.C., residents Mark and Denise Flanders and daughter Verity enjoy their vacation on the east end of Ocean Isle Beach.
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A boy walks on the beach as a red flag flies and bands of rain and wind come through from Hurricane Irene in Nassau, on New Providence Island in the Bahamas. VIDEO: Irene could be worst storm to hit NE in decade
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A driver guides his horse-drawn carriage as the outer bands of Hurricane Irene affect Baracoa, Cuba.
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People were displaced by the flooding of the Nigua River due to the rains of Hurricane Irene in San Cristobal, Dominican Republic.
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Lt. Cmdr. Scott Price navigates a NOAA P-3 Orion turboprop named “Kermit” toward Hurricane Irene in the Atlantic Ocean.
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A surfer rides a wave at a beach on the Outer Banks before mandatory evacuations for residents and visitors.
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Jeremy Pickett boards the windows of a shopping store in Cape Hatteras, N.C.
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Hurricane Irene swirls over the Bahamas yesterday morning.
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People cover up as Hurricane Irene blows through Haiti. Irene lashed the northern coasts of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, where crews have begun cleaning up debris and the government warned of flooding. The hurricane is on track to make landfall in the U.S. by the end of the week.
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Residents watch the sea surge due to the approach of Hurricane Irene off the coast of the Dominican Republic. Irene turned into a Category 2 storm after raking Puerto Rico with strong winds and rain that knocked out power to more than a million people.
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Resort landscaping manager Chris Jaeger fills his truck and ten five-gallon gas containers in Garden City, S.C. Jaeger said they just want to be prepared in case Hurricane Irene hits the Myrtle Beach, S.C.
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A child walks around the branches in the rubbish after hurricane Irene at Boba beach.
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A setting sun is seen across the Croatan Sound near Manteo, N.C. Hurricane Irene threatens the North Carolina Outer Banks as it moves up the east coast.
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Andre Kozlov, 38, walks through his flooded basement in Hoboken, NJ. Hurricane Irene swept along the New Jersey shore early on Sunday, knocking down trees, leaving thousands of people without electrical power and causing flooding.
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