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Damage from Hurricane Sandy in the New York region. (Photo credit: Pioneer Productions)
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NOAA's GOES-13 satellite captured this visible image of Hurricane Sandy battering the U.S. East coast on Monday, Oct. 29 at 9:10 a.m. EDT. Sandy's center was about 310 miles south-southeast of New York City. Tropical Storm force winds are about 1,000 miles in diameter. Credit: NASA GOES Project
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Damage from Hurricane Sandy in the New York region. (Photo credit: Pioneer Productions)
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An overturned car sits amidst debris from houses destroyed during Hurricane Sandy in Union Beach, New Jersey, U.S. on Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012. Recovery progressed slowly in New Jersey, where Hurricane Sandy struck on Oct. 29. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a Republican, praised the ?patience and resilience? of New Jerseyans and released a timeline Saturday of which neighborhoods without electricity should be restored over the next few days. Photograph: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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Debris covers the front steps of a home destroyed during Hurricane Sandy in Union Beach, New Jersey, U.S. on Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012. Recovery progressed slowly in New Jersey, where Hurricane Sandy struck on Oct. 29. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a Republican, praised the ?patience and resilience? of New Jerseyans and released a timeline Saturday of which neighborhoods without electricity should be restored over the next few days. Photograph: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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NOAA's GOES-13 satellite captured this visible image of the massive Hurricane Sandy on Oct. 28 at 1302 UTC (9:02 a.m. EDT). The line of clouds from the Gulf of Mexico north are associated with the cold front that Sandy is merging with. Sandy's western cloud edge is already over the mid-Atlantic and northeastern United States. Credit: NASA GOES Project)
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As Hurricane Sandy made a historic landfall on the New Jersey coast during the night of Oct. 29, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on NASA/NOAA's Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite captured this night-time view of the storm. This image provided by University of Wisconsin-Madison is a composite of several satellite passes over North America taken 16 to18 hours before Sandy's landfall. (NASA)
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A partially collapsed crane, top center, hangs from the 90-story residential building One57 under construction on West 57th Street in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. New York City officials began assessing damage after superstorm Sandy killed 10 people, sparked a fire that razed 80 homes in a Queens, flooded tunnels of the biggest U.S. transit system and left 750,000 customers without power, including the lower third of Manhattan. Photographer: Peter Foley/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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A fleet of taxis sits submerged in water in Hoboken, New Jersey, U.S., on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. The Atlantic storm Sandy left a landscape of devastation across much of New Jersey, tearing apart seaside resort towns, ripping houses from foundations and littering the turnpike with rail cars and debris. Photographer: Emile Wamsteker/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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The view of storm damage over the Atlantic Coast from the helicopter following Marine One with US President Barack Obama and Governor Chris Christie as they view the storm damage in Seaside Heights, New Jersey, on October 31, 2012. Americans sifted through the wreckage of superstorm Sandy on Wednesday as millions remained without power. The storm carved a trail of devastation across New York City and New Jersey, killing dozens of people in several states, swamping miles of coastline, and throwing the tied-up White House race into disarray just days before the vote. (Photo credit should read DOUG MILLS/AFP/Getty Images)