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Lee Strom waits on a city bus to be taken to a shelter at the Lee District RECenter in Franconia, Va., during a mandatory evacuation order in the Huntington neighborhood of Alexandria, Va., Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, while high winds and heavy rain from Hurricane Sandy pound the Atlantic coast. Mr. Strom's home is on Arlington Terrace. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Michael Murphy waits on a city bus to be taken to a shelter at the Lee District RECenter in Franconia, Va., during a mandatory evacuation order in the Huntington neighborhood of Alexandria, Va., on Oct. 29, 2012, as high winds and heavy rain from Hurricane Sandy pound the Atlantic coast. Mr. Murphy's home is on Arlington Terrace in Huntington. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Fairfax County firefighters go door to door to check on residents on Arlington Terrace in the Huntington neighborhood of Alexandria, Va., on Oct. 29, 2012, during a mandatory evacuation order as high winds and heavy rain from Hurricane Sandy pound the Atlantic coast. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Fairfax County firefighters go door to door to check on residents on Arlington Terrace in the Huntington neighborhood of Alexandria, Va., on Oct. 29, 2012, during a mandatory evacuation order as high winds and heavy rain from Hurricane Sandy pound the Atlantic coast. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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A woman leaves a house on Arlington Terrace in the Huntington neighborhood of Alexandria, Va., on Oct. 29, 2012, during a mandatory evacuation order as high winds and heavy rain from Hurricane Sandy pound the Atlantic coast. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Rosa Merino and her family leave from their home on Arlington Terrace in the Huntington neighborhood of Alexandria, Va., on Oct. 29, 2012, during a mandatory evacuation order as high winds and heavy rain from Hurricane Sandy pound the Atlantic coast. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Members of the Merino family carry belongings to waiting cars as they leave their home on Arlington Terrace in the Huntington neighborhood of Alexandria, Va., on Oct. 29, 2012, during a mandatory evacuation order as high winds and heavy rain from Hurricane Sandy pound the Atlantic coast. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Members of the Merino family carry belongings to waiting cars as they leave their home on Arlington Terrace in the Huntington neighborhood of Alexandria, Va., on Oct. 29, 2012, during a mandatory evacuation order as high winds and heavy rain from Hurricane Sandy pound the Atlantic coast. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Rosa Merino uses her cell phone as she and her family leave their home on Arlington Terrace in the Huntington neighborhood of Alexandria, Va., on Oct. 29, 2012, during a mandatory evacuation order as high winds and heavy rain from Hurricane Sandy pound the Atlantic coast. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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A young man removes belongings from a home on Arlington Terrace in the Huntington neighborhood of Alexandria, Va., on Oct. 29, 2012, during a mandatory evacuation order as high winds and heavy rain from Hurricane Sandy pound the Atlantic coast. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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A woman leaves a house on Arlington Terrace during a mandatory evacuation order in the Huntington neighborhood of Alexandria, Va., on Oct. 29, 2012, while high winds and heavy rain from Hurricane Sandy pound the Atlantic coast. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Rick Knabb, director of the National Hurricane Center, points to the satellite image of hurricane Sandy at the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
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Michael Wirtz, of Wilmington, Del., braves flood waters and high winds that arrive with Hurricane Sandy along North Michigan Avenue in Atlantic City, N.J., Monday Oct. 29, 2012. Hurricane Sandy continued on its path Monday, forcing the shutdown of mass transit, schools and financial markets, sending coastal residents fleeing for higher ground, and threatening a dangerous mix of high winds and soaking rain. (AP Photo/The Press of Atlantic City, Michael Ein) MANDATORY CREDIT
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New Bedford, Mass., firefighters survey damage caused when high winds generated by Hurricane Sandy toppled a chimney through a skylight and into the kitchen of an apartment in New Bedford Monday, Oct. 29, 2012. The apartments were evacuated, and no one was injured. (AP Photo/The Standard-Times, Peter Pereira)
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A downed limb lies in a flooded street as Hurricane Sandy approaches, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, in Center Moriches, N.Y. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)
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U.S. Fuel gas station store manager Tsewang Guyrme, of Phillipsburg, N.J., wraps one of his newly installed Mobil gas tanks with bubble and shrink wrap, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, to protect them from possible flying debris in Phillipsburg. His station on Memorial Parkway is converting to a Mobil gas station. Hurricane Sandy continued on its path Monday, forcing the shutdown of mass transit, schools and financial markets, sending coastal residents fleeing for higher ground, and threatening a dangerous mix of high winds and soaking rain. (AP Photo/The Express-Times, Lisa Massey)
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A parking light lies collapsed on the ground from strong winds in Rehoboth Beach, Del., Monday, Oct. 29, 2012. (AP Photo/The Wilmington News-Journal, Suchat Pederson)
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Rising water from the Hudson River overtakes a bank drive through in Edgewater, N.J., Monday, Oct. 29, 2012 as Hurricane Sandy lashed the East Coast. In the background is the historic ferry boat named the Binghamton, swamped by the waves. Hurricane Sandy continued on its path Monday, as the storm forced the shutdown of mass transit, schools and financial markets, sending coastal residents fleeing, and threatening a dangerous mix of high winds and soaking rain. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
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A row of houses stands in floodwaters at Grassy Sound in North Wildwood, N.J., as Hurricane Sandy pounds the East Coast Monday Oct. 29, 2012. (AP Photo/The Press of Atlantic City, Dale Gerhard)
