U.S. East Coast cleans up after Hurricane Irene
Billy Stinson comforts his daughter Erin Stinson as they sit on the steps where their cottage once stood in Nags Head, North Carolina.Scott Olson/Getty Images
Billy Stinson is comforted by Lisa Morrisette while he sits next to a pile of debris that was once his cottage in Nags Head, North Carolina. The cottage, built in 1903 and destroyed 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.Scott Olson/Getty Images
Vito Gentile sits in the flooded lobby of the Allegria hotel where he is the chief engineer as they begin to deal with the waters brought in as Hurricane Irene swept through in Long Beach, New York. While Hurricane Irene has now been downgraded to a tropical storm, it has knocked out power to more than 3 million people and is attributed to more than 11 deaths as it travels up the Eastern seaboard.Joe Raedle/Getty Image
Residents of Stumpy Point, N.C. make their way into their flooded home following the effects of Hurricane Irene. Flood waters rose all across New Jersey.Gerry Broome/AP
Billy Stinson searches for his belonging in a pile of debris that was once his cottage.Scott Olson/Getty Images
Bennington Police Chief Paul Doucette looks at a collapsed bridge on Route 9 in Woodford, Vt..Austen Danforth/AP
Boats lay tossed into the woods by Hurricane Irene in Lowland, North Carolina. Water rose over six feet on the island unexpectedly flooding residents out of their homes.Sara D. Davis/Getty Images
Casey Robinson, and his wife Denise Robinson clean up what is left of their beach house after Hurricane Irene passed in Virginia Beach, Va.L. Todd Spencer/The Virginian-Pilot/AP
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.Cathy Zuraw/The Connecticut Post/AP
Janie Gibbs helps clean up a friend's destroyed home after it was hit by Hurricane Irene Saturday in Columbia, N.C.John Bazemore/AP
Mark Wade (R) chases his friend Craig Busick as he surfs a large puddle in front of the Board of Education in Centreville, MD, after Hurricane Irene.Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images
A family crosses police lines and rides towards a tree brought down by winds caused by Hurricane Irene in Manasquan, New Jersey.Michael Loccisano/Getty Images
Passerby and neighbors look at a scene where a large tree crushed a car in Baltimore, Maryland.Patrick Smith/Getty Images
Va. Dept. of Traffic workers place a hose to pump out flood water at the entrance of the Midtown Tunnel prior to its scheduled opening in Norfolk, Va.Hyunsoo Leo Kim/The Virginian-Pilot/AP
Helen Miller, 80, gives up on sweeping her walk from storm debris in Maribel, North Carolina.Sara D. Davis/Getty Images