<b>Pictures:</b> Hurricane Irene

Waves and storm surge pound the boardwalk and the beach at first light as Hurricane Irene slams into Asbury Park, N.J. on Aug. 28. (Chip East / Reuters)

Orlando Sentinel

March 18, 2014 6:25 AM PT

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Pictures of the damage Hurricane Irene caused in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and the Bahamas as well pictures of people in the East Coast of the United States boarding up their homes and stocking up on supplies in preparation.

Mark Roberts walks his dog Molly down a street littered with debris left behind in the wake of Hurricane Irene on Aug. 28 in Kill Devil Hills, N.C. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

A person walks through a flooded street after Irene on Aug. 28 in the Red Hook neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

A police car drives around downed trees in Brooklyn during heavy rain and winds on Aug. 28 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

A person walks down a street in Brooklyn during heavy rain and winds on Aug. 28 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

A New York City Police Department car drives through water at an intersection near Battery Park in Lower Manhattan in New York on Aug. 28. (Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images)

A person walks by downed trees in Brooklyn during heavy rain and winds from Irene on Aug. 28 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Revellers play in the puddles during Irene in New York‘s Times Square on Aug. 28. (Brendan McDermid / Reuters)

A man walks in a flooded street in Hoboken, N.J. on Aug. 28. (Kena Betancur / Reuters)

People walk in a flooded street in Hoboken, N.J. on Aug. 28. (Kena Betancur / Reuters)

Car drives into a flooded area in lower Manhattan as Hurricane Irene closed in on New York City on Aug. 28. (Mike Segar / Reuters)

A sailboat is washed ashore as Irene arrives on Aug. 28 in Southampton, N.Y. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Gary Niren surveys a tree that fell on the house he rents as a result of Hurricane Irene on Aug. 28 in Virginia Beach, Va. (Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)

Water surrounds a home as Hurricane Irene arrives on Aug. 28 in Southampton, N.Y. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Flood waters caused by Hurricane Irene raise on a residential street in Ocean City, Md. on Aug. 27. (Molly Riley/Reuters)

Mark Wade (R) chases his friend Craig Busick (C) as he surfs a large puddle in front of the Board of Education in Centreville, MD, August 28, 2011, after Hurricane Irene. (JIM WATSON, AFP/Getty Images)

A woman and a child sit on a public bench amid floodwater on Rockway Beach after Hurricane Irene swept through New York City on Aug. 28, 2011. (EMMANUEL DUNAND, AFP/Getty Images)

Graffiti on a window protection plate reads “I survived Irene” in the old town of Alexandria, Va., August 28, 2011. (MLADEN ANTONOV, AFP/Getty Images)