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Country singer Sammy Kershaw and others on his tour bus survived a collision on Friday in Texas. They were shaken and sore but not seriously hurt. (Associated Press)

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A resident in Atlantic Highlands, N.J., walks to the Atlantic Highlands Emergency Services Building to vote Nov. 6, 2012, as power outages from superstorm Sandy forced the town to condense all the districts into one location. (Associated Press)

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A person walks through a makeshift shelter in a gymnasium at Toms River East High School on the way to vote on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, in Toms River, N.J. Voter turnout was heavy in several storm-ravaged Jersey shore towns, with many voters expressing relief and even elation at being able to vote at all, considering the devastation. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

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Two National Guard members stand by in their truck at Bishop Molloy Recreational Center, where voting took place on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, in Point Lookout, N.Y., one of several voting locations that were created as a result of superstorm Sandy. Election Day turnout was heavy in several storm-ravaged areas in New York and New Jersey, with many voters expressing relief and even elation at being able to vote at all, considering the devastation. (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek)

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A voter walks through a makeshift shelter in a gymnasium at Toms River East High School on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, on the way to the polls in Toms River, N.J. Voter turnout was heavy in several storm-ravaged Jersey shore towns, with many voters expressing relief and even elation at being able to vote at all, considering the devastation. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

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People sort through donated clothes at an aid station in Staten Island, New York. The Federal Emergency Management Agency said it has already dispensed close to $200 million in emergency housing assistance after Superstorm Sandy, but finding enough long-term housing could be problematic. (Associated Press)

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A damaged building in the Jedida district of Aleppo, Syria, is seen Nov. 4, 2012, through a window after several weeks of intense battles between rebel fighters and the Syrian army. (Associated Press)

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Kim Johnson looks over the destruction near her seaside apartment in Atlantic City, N.J., on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. Superstorm Sandy, which made landfall Monday, caused multiple fatalities, halted mass transit and cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)4

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A minigolf course on the boardwalk in Point Pleasant Beach N.J., shown here on Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012, was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy. The storm wrecked boardwalks and amusements up and down the 127-mile Jersey shore. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)

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Debris covers the lower floor of Don Durando's house in Long Beach, N.Y. on Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012, after sustaining flooding and other damage from superstorm Sandy. Three days after Sandy slammed the mid-Atlantic and the Northeast, New York and New Jersey struggled to get back on their feet, the U.S. death toll climbed to more than 80, and more than 4.6 million homes and businesses were still without power. (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek)

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Household items destroyed from flooding from Hurricane Sandy line California Street on Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012, in Long Beach, N.Y. Three days after Sandy slammed the mid-Atlantic and the Northeast, New York and New Jersey struggled to get back on their feet, the U.S. death toll climbed to more than 80, and more than 4.6 million homes and businesses were still without power. (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek)

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** FILE ** Foundations and pilings are all that remain of brick buildings and a boardwalk in Atlantic City, N.J., on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, after they were destroyed when a powerful storm that started out as Hurricane Sandy made landfall on the East Coast on Monday night. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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This NOAA satellite image taken on Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, shows Hurricane Sandy off the mid-Atlantic coastline moving toward the north with maximum sustained winds of 90 mph. Sandy wheeled toward land as forecasters feared, raking cities along the Northeast corridor with rain and wind gusts, flooding shore towns, washing away a section of the Atlantic City boardwalk, and threatening to cripple Wall Street and New York's subway system with a huge surge of corrosive seawater. (AP Photo/NOAA)

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A man inspects an Aqua model at a Toyota Motor Corp. showroom in Tokyo on Monday, Nov. 5, 2012. Toyota's quarterly profit tripled, driven by a recovery from natural disasters, and the company raised its full-year earnings forecast despite a sales slump in China. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)