Floridians have mopped, shovelled sand and lined up for water and ice as the remnants of Hurricane Jeanne left the storm-beaten state and passed through Georgia after killing six people.
President George W. Bush asked Congress for $7.1 billion to help with relief efforts in Florida and other states hit by major storms in a severe hurricane season.
The new federal aid comes on top of two earlier relief packages. So far, Mr Bush has requested more than $12.2 billion in emergency aid, most of it for Florida, a battleground state vital to his re-election hopes in November.
No longer a hurricane or even a tropical storm, Jeanne headed northeast on a path toward North and South Carolina and out to sea. Its maximum sustained winds, once 120 mph, had fallen to 35 mph.
Jeanne left thousands of damaged homes and some 5 million people without electricity in Florida, where storm-weary residents faced a clean-up from a fourth hurricane strike in six weeks.
The storm was blamed for at least six deaths in Florida after causing floods in Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico last week in which at least 2,430 people died. The Haiti toll rose from 1,650 to 2,400 on Monday when a priest reported 750 previously unreported deaths near Gonaives.
Along Florida's east-central coast, where Jeanne tore off roofs and filled oceanfront homes with sand when it crashed ashore near Stuart during the weekend, people rooted through collapsed mobile homes looking for possessions.
The storm dumped up to 25 centimetres of rain on parts of Florida already waterlogged by previous storms, and several rivers were rising dangerously.