Images: Hurricane Irene - Saturday
Denis Hromin, a concerned fisherman, checks on Avalon Fishing Pier as it lost some pilings after being battered by wind and waves on the Outer Banks in Kill Devil Hills, N.C., Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011 as Hurricane Irene reaches the North Carolina coast.
(AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Storm clouds loom over lower Manhattan, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011 in New York. Hurricane Irene opened its assault on the Eastern Seaboard on Saturday by lashing the North Carolina coast with wind as strong as 115 mph (185 kph) and pounding shoreline homes with waves. Farther north, Philadelphia and New York City-area authorities readied a massive shutdown of trains and airports, with 2 million people ordered out of the way.
(AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
Water rises on a street in Ocean City, Md., Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011, as Hurricane Irene heads toward the Maryland coast. Hurricane Irene knocked out power and piers in North Carolina, clobbered Virginia with wind and churned up the coast Saturday to confront cities more accustomed to snowstorms than tropical storms.
(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Jarod Wilton looks at the flood waters rising to his doorstep, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011, in Alliance, N.C., as Hurricane Irene hits the North Carolina coast.
(AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
A tourist walks up the step to the Lincoln Memorial as the wind and rain from Hurricane Irene reaches Washington, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011.
(AP Photo/J. David Ake)
The hurricane force winds of Irene rip the siding off of homes on Nags Head, N.C. late Saturday morning, Aug. 27, 2011.
(AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, Stephen M. Katz)
In preparation for the arrival of Hurricane Irene, Vikram Oad, manager of a Dunkin Donuts store, tapes his store windows on Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011, in Bellmore, N.Y. Irene has the potential to cause billions of dollars in damage all along a densely populated arc that includes Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Boston and beyond. At least 65 million people could be affected.
(AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek)
Shelves are seen at a DAgastinos grocery store, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011, in New York. Hurricane Irene opened its assault on the Eastern Seaboard on Saturday, lashing the North Carolina coast with wind as strong as 115 mph (185 kph) and pounding shoreline homes with waves. Farther north in New York City and Philadelphia, authorities readied a massive shutdown of trains and airports, with 2 million people ordered out of the way.
(AP Photo/Karly Domb Sadof)
Waves crash under Jeannettes Pier as the effects of Hurricane Irene are felt in Nags Head, N.C., Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011.
(AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
Charles Foster of Long Neck, Del., relaxes with a book as he joins over 275 other people who checked into the Red Cross center at Indian River High School to ride out Hurricane Irene, in Dagsboro, Del. Saturday, August 27, 2011.
(AP Photo/The News Journal, Suchat Pederson)
Sarah Hwang of Los Angeles, right, holds an umbrella as Grace Hwang takes a photograph of their sister Jenny Shinn and brother-in-law Daniel Shinn, of Washington, by the U.S. Capitol as rain and winds pick up with first bands of Hurricane Irene making their way into Washington Saturday, Aug 27, 2011.
(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Xenia Semenova, right, 21, of Russia, Sergey Moiseer, 19, of Russia, and Natalia Aliakseyeva, 24, of Belarus, walk on the beach against strong winds Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011, in Cape May, N.J., as Hurricane Irene approaches. Hurricane-force winds and drenching rains from Irene battered the North Carolina coast early Saturday as the storm began its potentially catastrophic run up the Eastern Seaboard.
(AP Photo/Mel Evans)
Wind blows against palm trees on a beach in Ocean City, Md., on Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011, as Hurricane Irene heads toward the Maryland coast.
(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Jackie Sparnackel has to abandon her van and her belongings near the Frisco Pier after she drove up to see how the storm-battered structure was doing Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011 in Frisco, N.C. Friends tried to tow her out but she was caught in an overwash. Hurricane force winds from Irene were battering the island where power has been knocked out.
(AP Photo/The News & Observer, Chuck Liddy)
One of two people rescued from a sailboat, right, uses a line to make their way onto the beach on Willoughby Spit in Norfolk Saturday morning, Aug. 27, 2011 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.
(AP Photo/TheVirginian-Pilot, Bill Tiernan)
A high water sign is seen partially submerged on a street in Ocean City, Md., Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011, as Hurricane Irene heads toward the Maryland coast. Hurricane Irene knocked out power and piers in North Carolina, clobbered Virginia with wind and churned up the coast Saturday to confront cities more accustomed to snowstorms than tropical storms.
(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Floodwaters rise at dusk from the Albemarle Sound on the Outer Banks in Nags Head, N.C., Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011 as Hurricane Irene leaves the North Carolina coast.
(AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Two men use a boat to explore a street flooded by Hurricane Irene Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011 in Monteo, N.C.
(AP Photo/John Bazemore)
Two men paddle a boat bown a streete flooded by Hurricane Irene approaches Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011 in Manteo, N.C. Hurricane Irene knocked out power and piers in North Carolina, clobbered Virginia with wind and churned up the coast Saturday to confront cities more accustomed to snowstorms than tropical storms. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)