This image provided by NASA taken by crewmembers on the Space Shuttle Endeavour Saturday Aug. 18, 2007, shows a close-up of the eye of Category 4 Hurricane Dean. At the time the shuttle and International Space Station passed overhead, the Category 4 storm was nearing Jamaica with sustained winds of 150 mph.
A young boy runs in the rain and wind on a street of Kingston as parts of Hurricane Dean pass over Jamaica, Sunday, Aug. 19, 2007. Hurricane Dean pummeled Jamaica with strong winds and torrential rains after Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller made a last-minute plea for residents to abandon their homes and head for shelter. The storm has killed at least eight people as it has moved across the Caribbean.
A photojournalist fights the wind to approach a waterfront boulevard in downtown Kingston, as Hurricane Dean passes Jamaica, Sunday, Aug. 19, 2007. Dean plowed into Jamaica as a Category 4 storm Sunday.
Young boys use an umbrella to combat the wind while walking on a street of Kingston as Hurricane Dean passes over Jamaica, Sunday, Aug. 19, 2007.
Downtown Kingston as Hurricane Dean passes over Jamaica, Sunday, Aug. 19, 2007.
A girl sleeps with her dog in a school used as refuge for protection from Hurricane Dean in Pedernales, some 200 miles west of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, near the border with Haiti, Sunday, Aug. 19, 2007. Hurricane Dean began swept past the Dominican Republic and Haiti and took aim at Jamaica and the Cayman Islands.
Workers place wood panels in the windows and entrance of a restaurant in Cancun, Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 19, 2007, in preparation for the arrival of Hurricane Dean. The monster hurricane lashed Jamaica Sunday. Meanwhile, Mexico was evacuating thousands of tourists as well as its oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, with Dean set to slam into the Yucatan peninsula late Monday.
Residents of the coastal neighborhood of Bull Bay near Kingston, Jamaica, react while viewing the damage to their property that was wiped out by the storm surge during the passing of Hurricane Dean near Jamaica, Monday, Aug. 20, 2007. Jamaica avoided a direct hit when the storm passed just to the south Sunday night.
Onlookers pass next to a car displaced by a tidal surge at the coastal neighborhood of Caribbean Terrace in Kingston, after the pass of Hurricane Dean, Monday, Aug. 20, 2007. Jamaica avoided a direct hit when the storm passed to the south Sunday night and no deaths were reported.
Residents place wood panels to protect the windows and the entrance of their shop in Tulum, southeastern Mexico, Monday, Aug. 20, 2007. Hurricane Dean spared the Cayman Islands the worst of its fury on Monday as it headed for a collision course with Mexico's resort-dotted Caribbean coast, sending tourists fleeing for the airports and locals searching for higher ground.
Tourists wait to depart from Cancun's international airport in Cancun, southeastern Mexico, Monday, Aug. 20, 2007. Hurricane Dean spared the Cayman Islands the worst of its fury on Monday as it headed for a collision course with Mexico's resort-dotted Caribbean coast, sending tourists fleeing for the airports and locals searching for higher ground.
Residents of Chetumal, Mexico, try to unblock a sewer during as Hurricane Dean lashes the region Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2007.
A ripped out tree is seen at a street corner in Felipe Carrillo Puerto, southeastern Mexico, Tuesday, Aug. 21 2007. Hurricane Dean crashed into the Caribbean coast of Mexico on Tuesday as the strongest hurricane to hit land in the Atlantic region since 1988.
Strong wind blows against palm trees as Hurricane Dean strikes the area in Felipe Carrillo Puerto, southeastern Mexico, in the Yucatan peninsula Tuesday Aug. 21, 2007.
A resident tries to make his way through a flooded street in Bacalan, Chetumal,southeastern Mexico, in the Yucatan peninsula, Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2007. Hurricane Dean crashed into the Caribbean coast of Mexico on Tuesday as the strongest hurricane to hit land in the Atlantic region since 1988.
Heavy rain falls on an already flooded street during the passage of Hurricane Dean in Bacalan, Chetumal, southeastern Mexico in the Yucatan peninsula, Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2007.
A couple watches vehicles driving up a flooded street after the passage of Hurricane Dean in Chetumal, southeastern Mexico, in the Yucatan peninsula, Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2007.
People wait for the bus in Poza Rica, while Hurricane Dean approaches the state of Veracruz, southeastern Mexico, Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2007. Hurricane Dean, which crashed into the Caribbean coast of Mexico on Tuesday as the strongest hurricane to hit land in the Atlantic region since 1988, slammed the Veracruz region Wednesday, as a Category 2 storm.
A resident sits near his destroyed house after the passing of Hurricane Dean in Limones southeastern Mexico, on the Yucatan peninsula, Wednesday, Aug. 22 2007.