Gaston

Rebecca Pegram is pelted with rain while the wind turns her umbrella inside out in downtown Raleigh, N.C., Aug. 30, 2004. The remnants of Tropical Storm Gaston drenched North Carolina, and utility crews struggled to restore power to nearly 90,000 homes and businesses in the Carolinas.

Kenny Shelton walks through a flooded parking lot during heavy rains Aug. 30, 2004, in Richmond, Va. The remnants of Tropical Storm Gaston battered central and southeastern Virginia with torrential rain, causing heavy flooding.

Workers remove twisted and broken trees that closed the southbound lane of US Route 460 at Ford, Va. The remnants of Tropical Storm Gaston battered central and southeastern Virginia with heavy rain and strong winds Aug. 30, 2004.

Carnes Eiserhardt, right, tried to figure out who owns a Ford Explorer that was crushed by a tree blown over by high winds from Tropical Storm Gaston Aug. 29, 2004, in Charleston, S.C.

Half of a large pecan tree sits atop three cars and part of a house on Rodgers Avenue in Lake City, S.C., Aug. 29, 2004. The tree split and fell that morning after storms spun off from Tropical Storm Gaston moved into the area.

Sassy, a tea-cup Yorkshire terrier, waits in the wind and rain from Tropical Storm Gaston, for owner Debbie Jay to return Aug. 29, 2004, in Garden City Beach, S.C.

Willie Hood, with the City of North Charleston Fire Department, heads back to his work truck after cutting limbs from a fallen tree Aug. 29, 2004, in North Charleston, S.C. Powerful winds from Tropical Storm Gaston knocked the tree down, causing power lines to fall. Hood was on his way to deliver saws to fire stations when he saw the tree.

A surfer takes advantage of 6-to-7-foot waves Aug. 28, 2004, at Folly Beach, S.C., near Charleston, as Tropical Storm Gaston made its way to the coast.

Bill Bowman of Ft. Mill, S.C., braves the strong winds of Tropical Storm Gaston as he walks back from the Sea Cabins Villas pier on the Isle of Palms, S.C., Aug. 29, 2004.

From left to right, J.P. Noble sits on a park bench with his father, Phil, as Noah Smith and Alex Abrams kayak with Noah's dog, Radio, Aug. 29, 2004, after streets were flooded in Charleston, S.C., due to Tropical Storm Gaston.

A boat sits on the shore along Jeremy Creek in McClellanville, S.C., after it broke away from its dock during Tropical Storm Gaston Aug. 29, 2004. Tropical Storm Gaston sloshed ashore in South Carolina with near hurricane-force winds, spinning sheets of rain that flooded roads as the storm knocked out power to thousands of people.

Lionel Lofton holds onto his hat as he surveys the damage while trying to put a tarp on the roof at Carolina Seafood, Aug. 29, 2004, in McClellanville, S.C., as Tropical Storm Gaston rolls up the coast.

Parishioners at Christ Our King Roman Catholic Church in Mount Pleasant, S.C., head into the rain brought by Tropical Storm Gaston after the 8 a.m. service Aug. 29, 2004. Eighteen people came to a service usually attended by about 300.

Mount Pleasant firefighters walk past a downed tree, Aug. 29, 2004, in the Old Village of Mount Pleasant, S.C. Tropical Storm Gaston, spinning sheets of rain and near-hurricane force winds, sloshed into the South Carolina coast, uprooting trees, snapping power lines and leaving ponds on highways.

Homeowner Claudia McNabb, foreground, meets Mount Pleasant firefighters bringing tarps to protect belongings in her house Aug. 29, 2004, in Mount Pleasant, S.C., as Tropical Storm Gaston moved along coastal South Carolina. The crew had already checked the downed power lines around the fallen tree.

Bill Creech rests on a cot at North Charleston's Burns Elementary School after he couldn't make it back to his home in Mount Pleasant, S.C., due to the Cooper River Bridge closings in North Charleston, S.C., as Tropical Storm Gaston sloshed into the South Carolina coast Aug. 29, 2004.

A rainbow showed through storm clouds over the Baptist Church of Beaufort (S.C.), as Tropical Storm Gaston churned off the South Carolina coast Aug. 28, 2004.