Burnt houses are seen next to those which survived in Breezy Point, a neighborhood located in the borough of Queens in New York. New York City and the sodden U.S. Northeast began an arduous journey back to normal on Wednesday after mammoth storm Sandy killed at least 64 people, swamped coastal cities and cut power to millions. Hurricane Sandy caused flooding and worse across the East Coast on Oct. 29. President Obama has declared the situation a "major disaster" for large areas of the East Coast including New York City.
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People raise the American flag amid the wreckage of their homes devastated by fire, wind and flood in the Breezy Point neighborhood in New York City.
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New Yorkers cook food to share. East Village residents are still without power and some of the public housing buildings in the area flooded during the storm.
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A woman reacts to seeing the damage done to her home in Lindenhurst, N.Y.
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The John B. Caddell, a 700-ton water tanker, ran aground in New York.
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A roller coaster sits in the surf in Seaside Park, N.J.
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An aerial view of the damage over the Atlantic Coast.
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Flooding from Hurricane Sandy can be seen in this aerial photo from the U.S. Coast Guard showing Long Island, N.Y.
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This aerial view of damage caused by Sandy to the New Jersey coast was taken during a search and rescue mission by the New Jersey Army National Guard .
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The devastation left by uperstorm Sandy in the Breezy Point neighborhood in New York City.
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A track and field is littered with debris in Hoboken, N.J.
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Residents look over destroyed homes in Seaside Heights, N.J.
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A water slide hangs over the end of an amusement park pier in Seaside Park, N.J.
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Boats washed ashore near Monmouth Beach, N.J.
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Beach sand covers roads along Seaside Heights, N.J.
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A woman cleans out her home in Breezy Point in New York City.
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Beach homes smolder after fires from open gas lines burned a city block in Lavallette, N.J.
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An aerial view of the destruction in Atlantic City, N.J.
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Sailboats are in a jumble at a marina dock near Monmouth Beach, N.J.
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Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange following its reopening on Oct. 31.
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Boats are piled next to a house near Monmouth Beach, N.J.
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Two girls examine the wreckage of boats washed ashore in Great Kills, Staten Island, in New York City.
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A man attempts to walk across a fence surrounded by flood waters in Staten Island, New York City.
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Atlantic City, N.J. in the aftermath of Sandy.
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A flooded stairwell down to a submerged subway tunnel in Manhattan, New York City.
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A man talks to reporters in front of his burned house in the Breezy Point neighborhood in New York.
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Fallen trees on cars in Queens in New York City.
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Storm damage over the Atlantic Coast in Seaside Heights, N.J.
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A tent protects the skeletal remains of at least two people. The remains were unearthed when a 100-year-old oak tree fell in New Haven, Conn., after superstorm Sandy hit. The remains likely belonged to a victim of yellow fever or smallpox, who might have been buried between 1799 and 1821.
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New York City subways remain suspended and power in nearly all of lower Manhattan was still out Wednesday.
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A firefighter looks through debris of a fire that destroyed more than 50 homes in the waterfront Breezy Point neighborhood in Queens, N.Y.
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An emergency worker carries a woman to safety from flood waters in Little Ferry, N.J.
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The streets surrounding the New York Stock Exchange are deserted as financial markets remain closed on Oct. 30.
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New Yorkers stand over vehicles submerged in a parking structure in the financial district of Lower Manhattan.
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President Barack Obama speaks about the federal government's response to storm damage at a Red Cross in Washington on Oct. 30. Damage from the storm could hit $20 billion, disaster estimator Eqecat calculated.
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U.S. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, center, accepts relief supplies for people affected by Hurricane Sandy at a storm relief campaign event in Kettering, Ohio, on Oct. 30.
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Waves crash against the shoreline during high tide in Milford, Conn.
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A New Jersey man reacts to seeing debris of a home that washed up on to the Mantoloking Bridge in Mantoloking, N.J.
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Hospital workers evacuate a patient from NYU Langone Medical Center in New York.
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A badly damaged home sits along the shoreline in Milford, Conn.
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An ambulance is stuck in snow near Belington, W.Va. Parts of West Virginia were under more than a foot of snow.
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Rescue workers carry a wheelchair-bound resident away from flood waters in Little Ferry, N.J.
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A woman talks to her neighbors kayaking down a flooded street in South Bethany Beach, Del.
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Two women paddle-board down a flooded city street in Bethany Beach, Del.
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Floodwaters engulf a car parked on a street in Hoboken, N.J.
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Cars are partially submerged on flooded street in Hoboken, N.J.
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People evacuate lower Manhattan in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
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A tree was blown onto a house in the east end of Toronto. Sandy left 145,000 people without power in Ontario, including 55,000 in Toronto.
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A woman inspects flood damage inside her home in Point Pleasant Beach, N.J.
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Surfers brave cold water as surf batters the Milwaukee coastline along Lake Michigan.
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A tree limb smashed the windshield of a van and punctured the roof of the Deering Road group home in Gorham, Maine.
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People evacuate by boat from flooded Little Ferry, N.J.
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The waters of South Oyster Bay wash ashore around heavily damaged waterfront houses in Massapequa, N.Y.
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Sveinn Storm pumps water out of his flooded Storm Bros. Ice Cream Factory store in downtown Annapolis, Md.
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President Barack Obama talks about the federal government's response at a Red Cross Disaster Operations Center in Washington, D.C.
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A huge fire ripped through New York City with near-hurricane force winds in the neighborhood Breezy Point in the borough of Queens in N.Y.
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A man photographs waves generated from the remnants Hurricane Sandy as they crash into the shoreline of Lake Michigan in Chicago. Waves up to 25 feet high were expected on the lake.
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Burnt houses are seen next to those which survived in Breezy Point, a neighborhood located in the borough of Queens in New York. New York City and the sodden U.S. Northeast began an arduous journey back to normal on Wednesday after mammoth storm Sandy killed at least 64 people, swamped coastal cities and cut power to millions. Hurricane Sandy caused flooding and worse across the East Coast on Oct. 29. President Obama has declared the situation a "major disaster" for large areas of the East Coast including New York City.
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People raise the American flag amid the wreckage of their homes devastated by fire, wind and flood in the Breezy Point neighborhood in New York City.
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New Yorkers cook food to share. East Village residents are still without power and some of the public housing buildings in the area flooded during the storm.