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A Delta Air Lines departures monitor shows flights canceled because of Hurricane Sandy on Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport outside Detroit. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
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This photo taken Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, shows what appear to be transformers exploding after much of lower Manhattan lost power during hurricane Sandy in New York. Much of New York was plunged into darkness Monday by a superstorm that overflowed the city's historic waterfront, flooded the financial district and subway tunnels and cut power to nearly a million people. (AP Photo/Karly Domb Sadof)
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Sea water floods the Ground Zero construction site, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, in New York. 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/ John Minchillo)
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Vehicles are submerged during a storm surge near the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, in New York. Superstorm Sandy zeroed in on New York's waterfront with fierce rain and winds that shuttered most of the nation's largest city Monday, darkened the financial district and left a huge crane hanging off a luxury high-rise. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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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)