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  • Sandy's Swath of Destruction

    Sandy's Swath of Destruction
    Waves slam into the sea wall in Scituate, Mass., Oct., 29, 2012, as Superstorm Sandy approaches the east coast of the U.S.
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  • Sandy's Wide Swath of Destruction

    Sandy's Wide Swath of Destruction
    Cars pass over the Brooklyn Bridge near the partially-lit skyline of lower Manhattan on November 3, 2012 in New York City. Although electricity has been restored to most of New York City, many areas remain without power five days after Superstorm Sandy.
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  • Assessing Sandy's Destruction

    Assessing Sandy's Destruction
    This aerial photo shows destroyed homes left in the wake of superstorm Sandy on Oct. 31, 2012, in Seaside Heights, N.J. where Sandy made landfall in the state and killed six people.
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  • Assessing Sandy's Destruction

    Assessing Sandy's Destruction
    In this aerial photo, upended boats are piled together at a marina along the central New Jersey shore on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012.
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  • Assessing Sandy's Destruction

    Assessing Sandy's Destruction
    A flooded escalator in the South Ferry station of the No. 1 subway line is shown, Oct. 30, 2012, in lower Manhattan.
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  • Assessing Sandy's Destruction

    Assessing Sandy's Destruction
    Workers try to clear boats and debris from the New Jersey Transit's Morgan draw bridge, Oct. 31, 2012, in South Amboy, N.J.
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  • Assessing Sandy's Destruction

    Assessing Sandy's Destruction
    An aerial view of the roller coaster from the Seaside Heights amusement park on the New Jersey shore is submerged in surf, Oct. 30, 2012.
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  • Sandy's Swath of Destruction

    Sandy's Swath of Destruction
    The iconic Princess Cottage, built in 1855, remains standing after being ravaged by flooding from Superstorm Sandy, in Union Beach, N.J, Nov. 21, 2012.
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  • Assessing Sandy's Destruction

    Assessing Sandy's Destruction
    Members of the National Guard and Hoboken Police ride a large truck through floodwaters used to pluck people from high water in Hoboken, N.J., Oct. 31, 2012, in the wake of superstorm Sandy.
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  • Sandy Causes Massive Flooding

    Sandy Causes Massive Flooding
    People stand next to a house collapsed from superstorm Sandy in East Haven, Conn. on Oct. 30, 2012.
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  • Sandy Causes Massive Flooding

    Sandy Causes Massive Flooding
    Brian Hajeski, 41, of Brick, N.J., reacts as he looks at debris of a home that washed up on to the Mantoloking Bridge the morning after superstorm Sandy rolled through on Oct. 30, 2012, in Mantoloking, N.J.
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  • Sandy Causes Massive Flooding

    Sandy Causes Massive Flooding
    Waves pound a lighthouse on the shores of Lake Erie on Oct. 30, 2012, near Cleveland where high winds spinning off the edge of superstorm Sandy took a vicious swipe at northeast Ohio early Tuesday, uprooting trees, cutting power to hundreds of thousands, closing schools and flooding parts of major commuter arteries that run along Lake Erie.
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  • Sandy Causes Massive Flooding

    Sandy Causes Massive Flooding
    Olivia Loesner, 16, hugs her uncle, Little Ferry Deputy Fire Chief John Ruff, after she was brought from her flooded home in a boat in Little Ferry, N.J. on Oct. 30, 2012, in the wake of superstorm Sandy, while her mother, Janice Loesner, carries their pets.
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  • Sandy Causes Massive Flooding

    Sandy Causes Massive Flooding
    A 168-foot water tanker, the John B. Caddell, sits on the shore the morning of Oct. 30, 2012 where it ran aground on Front Street in the Stapleton neighborhood of New York's Staten Island as a result of superstorm Sandy.
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  • Sandy Causes Massive Flooding

    Sandy Causes Massive Flooding
    Damage caused by a fire at Breezy Point is shown on Oct. 30, 2012, in New York where a fire department spokesman says more than 190 firefighters are at the blaze in the Breezy Point section.
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  • Sandy Causes Massive Flooding

    Sandy Causes Massive Flooding
    A parking lot full of yellow cabs is flooded as a result of superstorm Sandy on Oct. 30, 2012 in Hoboken, NJ.
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  • Sandy Causes Massive Flooding

    Sandy Causes Massive Flooding
    Cars are half-submerged in a flooded parking lot after Hurricane Sandy hit in New York, Oct. 20, 2012
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  • Sandy Causes Massive Flooding

    Sandy Causes Massive Flooding
    This photo taken Oct. 30, 2012, shows what appear to be transformers exploding after much of lower Manhattan lost power during hurricane Sandy in New York.
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  • Sandy Causes Massive Flooding

    Sandy Causes Massive Flooding
    Medical workers assist a patient into an ambulance during an evacuation of New York University's Tisch Hospital, Oct. 29, 2012, in New York.
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  • Sandy Causes Massive Flooding

    Sandy Causes Massive Flooding
    In this handout image supplied by the US Coast Guard, The HMS Bounty, a 180-foot sailboat, is submerged in the Atlantic Ocean during Hurricane Sandy approximately 90 miles southeast of Hatteras, North Carolina, on Oct. 29, 2012.
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  • Sandy Causes Massive Flooding

    Sandy Causes Massive Flooding
    Water rushes into the Carey Tunnel (previously the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel), caused by Hurricane Sandy on October 29, 2012, in the Financial District of New York after Hurricane Sandy, which threatens 50 million people in the eastern third of the U.S. and is expected to bring days of rain, high winds and possibly heavy snow.
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  • Sandy Causes Massive Flooding

    Sandy Causes Massive Flooding
    Sea water floods the Ground Zero construction site Oct. 29, 2012, in New York as Sandy continued on its path forcing the shutdown of mass transit, schools and financial markets, sending coastal residents fleeing, and threatening a dangerous mix of high winds and soaking rain.
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  • Sandy Causes Massive Flooding

    Sandy Causes Massive Flooding
    Lower Manhattan goes dark during hurricane Sandy, on Oct. 29, 2012, as seen from Brooklyn, N.Y.
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  • Hurricane Sandy Floods Towns

     Hurricane Sandy Floods Towns
    Firefighters respond at the scene where the facade of a four-story building on 14th St and 8th Ave collapsed onto the sidewalk on Oct. 29, 2012, in New York where Hurricane Sandy bore down on the Eastern Seaboard's largest cities, forcing the shutdown of mass transit, schools and financial markets and threatening a dangerous mix of high winds, rain and a surging wall of water up to 11 feet tall.
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  • Hurricane Sandy Floods Towns

     Hurricane Sandy Floods Towns
    Streets are under water as Hurricane Sandy approaches October 29, 2012 in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
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  • Hurricane Sandy Floods Towns

     Hurricane Sandy Floods Towns
    Heavy surf crashes over a seawall on the Atlantic Ocean during the early stages of Hurricane Sandy, Oct. 29, 2012, in Kennebunk, Maine. Hurricane Sandy wheeled toward land as forecasters feared, raking cities along the Northeast corridor with rain and wind gusts, flooding shore towns and washing away a section of the Atlantic City Boardwalk.
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  • Hurricane Sandy Floods Towns

     Hurricane Sandy Floods Towns
    Lisa Famularo braces for impact as a large wave crashes over a seawall while she photographed heavy surf in the Atlantic Ocean during the early stages of Hurricane Sandy, Oct. 29, 2012, in Kennebunk, Maine.
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  • Hurricane Sandy Floods Towns

     Hurricane Sandy Floods Towns
    An historic ferryboat named the Binghamton is swamped by the waves on the Hudson River in Edgewater, N.J., Oct. 29, 2012, as Hurricane Sandy lashed the East Coast.
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  • Hurricane Sandy Floods Towns

     Hurricane Sandy Floods Towns
    Travelers on Delta Airlines look at a departure screen Oct. 29, 2012, in Detroit. Dozens of departing flights have been canceled at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport as a looming superstorm locks down flights to the East Coast.
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  • Hurricane Sandy Floods Towns

     Hurricane Sandy Floods Towns
    A satellite image shows Hurricane Sandy off the Mid Atlantic coastline moving toward the north with maximum sustained winds of 90 mph, Oct. 29, 2012.
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  • Hurricane Sandy Floods Towns

     Hurricane Sandy Floods Towns
    Snow sticks to tree limbs in Beckley, W.Va., Oct. 29, 2012, as Hurricane Sandy wheeled toward land.
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  • Hurricane Sandy Floods Towns

     Hurricane Sandy Floods Towns
    A flooded street is shown between two casinos near the boardwalk in Atlantic City, N.J., Oct. 29, 2012.
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  • East Coast Braces for Hurricane Sandy

    East Coast Braces for Hurricane Sandy
    The Hudson River swells and rises over the banks of the Hoboken, N.J. waterfront as Hurricane Sandy approaches, Oct. 29, 2012.
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  • East Coast Preps for Sandy

    East Coast Preps for Sandy
    High winds blow sea foam onto Jeanette's Pier in Nags Head, N.C., Oct. 28, 2012 as wind and rain from Hurricane Sandy move into the area.
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  • East Coast Preps for Sandy

    East Coast Preps for Sandy
    A car goes through the high water as Hurricane Sandy bears down on the East Coast, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012, in Ocean City, Md. Governors from North Carolina, where steady rains were whipped by gusting winds Saturday night, to Connecticut declared states of emergency. Delaware ordered mandatory evacuations for coastal communities by 8 p.m. Sunday.
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