Thu Nov 12, 8:47 PM ET

A beach house patio is coated in sea foam on a beach road in Nags Head, N.C. on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009. A drenching, wind-driven rain lashed much of the Atlantic seaboard Thursday, flooding streets, closing schools and causing three deaths in hard-hit Virginia and one in North Carolina. (AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, Steve Earley) NO SALES

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