Tropical Storm Katia, bottom right, moves off the southernmost Cape Verde Islands on Tuesday, Aug. 30. The storm has maximum sustained windes of 45mph, and is moving west/northwest at 18mph.

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Chris Respess, middle, buys an electric generator from Randy Sparks in Washington, N.C., Aug. 28. Respess said there are lot of people in Washington who still don't have electricity and are getting desperate. Sparks, who owns a discount grocery store in Belmont, Miss., brought a few hundred of generators to sell along Rt. 264.

Sam Liptrap of Atlantic Beach siphons gas from his car to fuel his generator. Liptrap, who owns the Sand Dollar Hotel, says Hurricane Irene cost him $2,500 in lost revenue this past weekend. Atlantic Beach was largely spared from the worst of the storm, but residents are likely to remain without power until crews can repair feeds to the area, which could mean more vacant rooms in the coming days for Liptrap.

Phillip Henry, left, of Morehead City, N.C., and Henderson Douglas, center, of Newport, N.C., wait in line for gas at a Shell Station on NC 24. By early afternoon, only two gas stations were reported to be pumping gas in the area. Supplies waned as residents looked to fuel their generators.

Billy Stinson, left, comforts his daughter Erin Stinson as they sit on the steps where their cottage once stood before it was destroyed by Hurricane Irene in Nags Head, N.C., on Aug. 28. The cottage, built in 1903, 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.

Billy Stinson searches for his belonging in a pile of debris that was once his cottage on Aug. 28, in Nags Head, N.C.

The road is washed out on the north end of Route 12 on Hatteras Island, N.C., Aug. 28.

Kira Woolard, 4, a resident of Craven County, looks outside during the midst of Hurricane Irene, from the Brinson Elementary School shelter, facilitated by the American Red Cross, near New Bern, N.C.

Kira Woolard, 4, says hello to Mark Sturgill, during the midst of Hurricane Irene.

Betty Hamby, the manager of the Brinson Elementary School shelter in New Bern, N.C, makes calls to better determine the course and damage caused by Hurricane Irene.

Grand Central Terminal is deserted in New York City on Aug. 27. Metro North has suspended service and Amtrak is running on a reduced schedule due to Hurricane Irene.

Aside from Metro North Police and a handful of employees, Grand Central Terminal sits vacant ahead of Hurricane Irene's landfall in New York on Saturday, Aug. 27. Heeding New York City Mayor Bloomberg's warnings and left with nearly all mass transit offline, streets are nearly empty.

The usually busy schedule board is blank since the New York area's transit system has been shut down starting Saturday.

An army of Con Edison utility trucks prepare for Hurricane Irene in New York City in the event of power outages caused by the large storm expected to hit the city overnight.

Sightseers stroll along a pier as a cruise ship heads out to sea in Jersey City, N.J., on Saturday, August 27. In anticipation of strong winds generated by Hurricane Irene, the Coast Guard ordered large ships, over 500 tons, out of port no later than 6 p.m. on Saturday.

A sightseer captures the dramatic storm clouds above the New York City skyline as Hurricane Irene approaches Saturday.

Department of Sanitation workers attach plows to garbage trucks in preparation for Hurricane Irene as the storm approaches New York on Saturday, Aug. 27.

Long lines of city buses wait in line for the bus depot near Broadway and 215th St., after the shutdown of the Metropolitan Transit Authority's mass transit system as Hurricane Irene approaches New York on Saturday, Aug. 27. They are pulling all of the buses off of the city streets and into garages, which many drivers said they had never seen before. These unusual steps are part of the reason why the MTA needed 8 hours to fully shut down the system.

The 215th St. subway station sits empty in northern Manhattan after the shutdown of the Metropolitan Transit Authority's subway system as Hurricane Irene approaches in New York on Saturday, Aug. 27. Threats of severe flooding from the storm resulted in the mandatory evacuation of 250,000 people, the cancellation of over 9,000 flights and the first weather-related complete shutdown of the city's mass transit system.