Seth Carter, 7, along with his mother, Lou, and brother, Andrew, 14, on vacation in Daytona Beach, Fla. from Kentucky, react after getting hit by a wave that crashed over the Jetty in Ponce Inlet, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2002. Waves were higher than normal due to Kyle sitting off the east coast of Florida.
Jeff Whitehurst, left, Manuel Flores, center, and Miquel Lopez gather up sweet potatoes from the large wooden containers that were flipped over after a storm hit the community, in Conetoe, N.C., Friday, Oct.11, 2002.
Hamdi Saadeh bails water from his cousin's flooded grocery store and parking lot in North Charleston, S.C., Friday, Oct. 11, 2002, after Tropical Storm Kyle sideswiped the South Carolina coast, swamping streets and homes with up to 8 inches of rain.
An uprooted tree lies on a home in Conetoe, N.C., after a severe storm moved through the area Friday afternoon, Oct. 11, 2002. While the North Carolina coast waited for Tropical Storm Kyle, inland counties were hit with flash flooding from rains that washed several cars off roads.
A Georgetown County firefighter walks through the rubble of Elizabeth Snow's home in Georgetown, S.C., Friday, Oct. 11, 2002 after a tornado ripped it apart and flipped vehicles nearby. Snow's daughter Gwen White held onto boards in the home to avoid getting sucked out by the tornado that hit as Tropical Storm Kyle passed through the area.