The death toll from the storm, which left millions without power, has risen to 29.
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A motorboat passes a submerged pickup truck on Main Street in Washingtonville, N.Y., on Sunday following heavy rains from Tropical Storm Irene.
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A deer wades through floodwaters in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene on Sunday in Lincoln Park, N.J. Rivers and creeks surged toward potentially record levels.
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A person checks a building for occupants as raging floodwaters cross Route 100, closing the main road in Waitsfield, Vt., on Sunday.
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A security guard hangs on the door of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's SUV in the middle of a flooded street Sunday in Margaretville, N.Y.
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Darrell Tarte surveys damage from a tree at a home hit by the hurricane on Sunday in Port Republic, Md.
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A vehicle is covered by trees on a flooded roadway in Southern Shores, N.C., on Sunday after the hurricane swept through the area.
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Waves crash along a seawall as the tropical storm, downgraded from a hurricane, slammed into Fairhaven, Mass., on Sunday.
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Jimmy Kaplow (left) and David Korostoff watch as water in New York City's Central Park flows down the steps as the tropical storm passes through the city on Sunday.
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An Oak Bluffs, Mass., fire department vehicle drives through strong winds and ocean spray from the tropical storm while driving along a costal road in Edgartown on Martha's Vineyard on Sunday.
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Residents clear debris from downed trees after a tornado spawned by Hurricane Irene touched down, on Sunday in Lewes, Del.
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Water sits on the streets of Brooklyn's Red Hook neighborhood on Sunday.
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Denise Robinson and Rich Brown clear out belongings from Robinson's storm-damaged beach home in the Sandbridge area of Virginia Beach, Va.
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People form a bucket brigade to bail water out of a flooded Chelsea apartment in New York on Sunday.
Timothy A. Clary
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Some flooding is no match for a scooter ride in Kill Devil Hills, N.C., on Sunday.
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Waves crash around a home Sunday morning in Southampton, N.Y.
Joe Raedle
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Lower Manhattan sits amid dark clouds as Irene bears down on New York early Sunday, bringing winds and rapidly rising seawater that threatened parts of the city.
Seth Wenig
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Large waves pound a pier Sunday morning in Ocean City, Md.
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An abandoned car sits half-submerged in floodwaters on a southbound lane of the New Jersey Turnpike near exit 12 in Carteret, N.J.
Julio Cortez
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A downed tree blocks a section of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway leading to City Hall in Philadelphia.
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A sign stays just above the water in Ocean City, Md., on Saturday.
Patrick Semansky
