Lupe Jimenez relaxes in a shelter at North Miami Beach Sr. High School, Sept. 3, 2004, as her son Giovanni, 1, plays with an empty water bottle. Jimenez came to the shelter to wait out the threat of Hurricane Frances.
Mel and Charles Laessia, right, bide their time by reading while shelter traffic passes by in the Parkway Elementary School hurricane shelter in Port St. Lucie, Fla., Sept. 3, 2004. The shelter opened that morning and quickly filled with locals seeking shelter from Hurricane Frances.
Thierry, a 7-year-old boy of Haitian descent, peers out over a pew at a shelter set up inside the Central Zion Baptist Church near Freeport, Bahamas, Sept. 3, 2004. Hurricane Frances was forecast to make a direct hit on Freeport later in the day.
People wait in line outside a 84 Lumber store to buy plywood to shield homes and businesses from approaching Hurricane Frances, in Davie, Fla., Sept. 3, 2004.
Drew Kravitz checks the clouds outside his home as Hurricane Frances continued to move closer, in Lighthouse Point, Fla., Sept. 3, 2004. His landlord painted the sign on plywood covering his window.
Lorna Jean Thunderhorse tars down loose shingles after she and her husband Joseph boarded up their art gallery in preparation for Hurricane Frances, near Crystal River, Fla., Sept. 3, 2004.
Charlie Crates moves his boat on the rim canal next to Lake Okeechobee's Herbert Hoover Dike, background, near Okeechobee, Fla., as Hurricane Frances nears South Florida, Sept. 3, 2004
A sign shows the Kissimme River mobile home park is closed, Sept. 3, 2004, in Buckhead Ridge, Fla., as Hurricane Frances approaches Florida.
Lowell Mertz carries his two cats to his car as his wife Linda watches, in Indialantic Beach, Fla., Sept. 3, 2004. The Mertz's had to go to work despite a mandatory evacuation order to leave. The couple was planning on just driving north to find shelter from Hurricane Frances. "Oh God, we've got just $52 and two cats. I don't know where we'll go," said Linda Mertz.
Laura Willis reads the newspaper as she and her husband Charles, right, spend the day at a hurricane shelter at Westwood High School in Fort Pierce, Fla., Sept. 3, 2004. Like many in Fort Pierce, the couple couldn't afford to fly away from Hurricane Frances, and their beat-up old car wouldn't have gotten them far up the road had they chosen to flee.
Rudy Leschhorn, left, Cristy Gaston, center, Jenny Esquijarosa, and Patrick Kelly, right, dine at Le Bouchon du Grove, a french resaurant in Coconut Grove, Fla., Sept. 3, 2004. Le Bouchon was one of the few places open with the threat of Hurricane Frances coming to South Florida.
In anticipation of Hurricane Frances, Latin members of the St. Juliana Catholic Church pray Sept. 2, 2004, in West Palm Beach, Fla. Shown, from left, Carmen Barrientos, Juanita Gonzalez and Aniana Cosme, with veil.
Maria Peagudo gazes at the empty shelves in the bottled water section of the Miami Shores, Fla., Publix grocery store Sept. 2, 2004, as Hurricane Frances drew near and residents stocked up on supplies.
City of Miami Police Sgt. M. Garcia, left, tries to calm down a motorist who cut in line at a gas station in Miami Sept. 2, 2004, as motorists stocked up on fuel in preparation for Hurricane Frances.
Gas pump handles are covered at a convenience store that is open but has run out of gas, Sept. 3, 2004, in South Daytona, Fla.
Omar Hogben, left, of Canada, and his fiancee, Paula Perez, right, of Spain, wait for transportation to a shelter in Miami Beach as Hurricane Frances approaches.
Robert Nadaskay of Delray Beach sits in the Special Care Unit hurricane shelter at the Palm Beach County Fairgrounds Sept. 2, 2004, in West Palm Beach, Fla., as the area prepares for Hurricane Frances. The shelter, which has nearly 500 beds set up and more ready if needed, is available only for adults or children with special medical needs who have pre-registered.
National Geographic freelancer Richard Slater-Jones films as Jacksonville Zoo mammal supervisor Wes Sims gives Bacon, a Vietnamese pot-bellied pig, an encouraging push as other personnel stand by to help, Sept. 2, 2004, in Jacksonville, Fla. The zoo began moving animals in preparation for Hurricane Frances.
A surfer catches a wave at the beach in Boca Raton, Fla., in heavy surf churned by Hurricane Frances Sept. 2, 2004.
Private jets wait for takeoff behind a Song flight at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Fla., Sept. 2, 2004, as residents evacuate the area because of Hurricane Frances.