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Holly March , left, Abby March, center, and Will Uffelmann, right, all of Keene Valley help family and friends, clean up the mud damage to McDonough'd Valley Hardware Co. caused by Tropical Storm Irene in Keene Valley, N.Y., Monday, Aug. 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink)

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BURLINGTON FREE PRESS VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS North Main Street in Waterbury, Vt., was underwater and almost 50,000 Vermont utility customers were without power Monday in the wake of Tropical Storm Irene. Hundreds of roads were closed and a number of bridges were destroyed by the storm. Irene dumped 11 inches of rain on the state.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS A car is submerged by floodwater Sunday in Hightstown, N.J., after Hurricane Irene caused Peddie Lake to overflow. Flooding problems erupted across New Jersey as the storm passed and caused multiple road closures.

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Kevin Holligan, of the Staten Island borough of New York, kayaks across a flooded section of the borough's Hyland Boulevard after the rain and wind of Tropical Storm Irene subsided, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011 on Staten Island, N.Y. (AP Photo/The Staten Island Advance, Anthony DePrimo)

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A person searches for anyone who may be occupying the building as raging flood waters from Tropical Storm Irene cross Route 100, closing the main road to traffic in Waitsfield, Vt., Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Sandy Macys)

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A flooded road is seen in Hatteras Island, N.C., Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011after Hurricane Irene swept through the area Saturday cutting the roadway in five locations. (AP Photo/Jim R. Bounds)

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Downtown New Brunswick, N.J., can be see near the overflowing Raritan River Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011, as heavy rains left by Hurricane Irene are causing inland flooding of rivers and streams. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

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A Zamudio's Tree Service employee works Sunday to remove a fallen tree from the roof of an Alexandria home on Enderby Drive. Utilities crews throughout the District, Maryland and Virginia worked Sunday to repair power lines, remove fallen trees and assess damage created by Hurricane Irene. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Baltimore Gas and Electric contractor Nate Mickel, of Altoona, Pa., works on a damaged power line in Annapolis on Sunday. Power companies spent much of last week planning for Hurricane Irene, calling in hundreds of extra personnel. (Associated Press)

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A city worker in Alexandria examines the scene on Payne Street on Sunday where tree branches and a telephone line came down. Hurricane Irene knocked out power to nearly 500,000 customers in the region, and some residents may not have power restored for several more days. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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** FILE ** Environmental activists gather outside the White House on Monday, Aug. 22, 2011, to protest the Keystone XL pipeline. (Associated Press)

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A utility worker makes repairs on electrical lines following Hurricane Irene in Nags Head, N.C., on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. Power is returning for hundreds of thousands of people after the storm passed through coastal states in the South. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

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Isaac Boone (right) takes photos of the damage to his friend's Jeep as a neighbor steps in to help move the fallen tree in Alexandria on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. Winds and rain from Hurricane Irene caused the tree to split. (Andrew S. Geraci/The Washington Times)

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Omar Said, 24, walks down Main Street covered in a plastic bag as bands of high winds and heavy rain from Hurricane Irene lash Annapolis, Md., Saturday, August 27, 2011. (J.M. Eddins, Jr./The Washington Times)

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Kevin Gaughan, of Annapolis, Md., carries Kristin Barth of Baltimore, Md. through flood waters on Prince George Street as bands of high winds and heavy rain from Hurricane Irene lash Annapolis, Md., Saturday, August 27, 2011. (J.M. Eddins, Jr./The Washington Times)

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Sheryl Brungart takes a photograph of looks damage caused by an uprooted tree which crashed into a neighbors house in White Hall Manor, in Anne Arundel County, Md., Sunday, August 28, 2011. Winds and rain from Hurricane Irene uprooted trees which crashed into houses in the neighborhood on Saturday night, August 27, 2011. Nobody was hurt in the incident. (J.M. Eddins, Jr./The Washington Times)

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Debbie Martinez looks over the damage caused by an uprooted tree which crashed into the bedroom of the house she is renting on Canal Lane in White Hall Manor, in Anne Arundel County, Md., Sunday, August 28, 2011. Winds and rain from Hurricane Irene uprooted trees which crashed into houses in the neighborhood on Saturday night, August 27, 2011. Nobody was hurt in the incident. (J.M. Eddins, Jr./The Washington Times)

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Sheryl Brungart takes a photograph of damage caused by an uprooted tree that crashed into a neighbor's house in White Hall Manor in Anne Arundel County, Md., on Sunday, August 28, 2011. Winds and rain from Hurricane Irene uprooted trees that crashed into houses in the neighborhood on Saturday night. Nobody was hurt in the incident. (J.M. Eddins Jr./The Washington Times)

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A worker for Santee Cooper, South Carolina's state-owned utility, repairs a power line downed by Hurricane Irene in North Myrtle Beach, S.C., on Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011. An estimated 8,000 electric customers in South Carolina lost power because of the storm. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith)

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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)