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Mayor Vince Gray visits a resident affected by hurricane Sandy, where a downed tree has blocked the road on Evarts St NE, Washington, D.C., Tuesday, October 30, 2012. Mayor Gray surveys the damage as part of his job as Mayor of D.C., to ensure residents are taken care of. (Andrew S. Geraci/The Washington Times)

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Mayor Vince Gray visits a residential area affected by hurricane Sandy, where a downed tree has blocked the road in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, October 30, 2012. Mayor Gray surveys the damage as part of his job as Mayor of D.C., to ensure residents are taken care of. (Andrew S. Geraci/The Washington Times)

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Crews work to clean up downed power lines in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, in Milton, N.H. Thousands of New Hampshire residents and businesses are without power. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

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Utility crews work on damaged power lines in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy in Berlin, Md. on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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Barbara Sinenberg, left and Arlene O'Dell, second from left, talk with neighbors next to a tree that had fallen across Barberry Lane as a result of the powerful winds and rain of Hurricane Sandy on Tuesday, Oct., 30, 2012, in Sea Cliff, N.Y. O'Dell's car was crushed by a fallen tree and her home, background was surrounded by fallen trees. (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek)

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A man passes by and navigates past O'Connell's Restaurant General Manager Doug Gruenberg (right) as he sweeps small debris from the sidewalk in front of his restaurant as people venture out to survey the damage in Old Town Alexandria, Va., Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, the day after Hurricane Sandy slammed into the region. Flood water in Old Town is slightly higher than normal after a heavy rain. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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A girl walks in the flood water on King Street as people venture out to survey the damage in Old Town Alexandria, Va., Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, the day after Hurricane Sandy slammed into the region. Flood water in Old Town is slightly higher than normal after a heavy rain. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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James McConnon, 5, (left) and his sister Ryan McConnon, 7, of Alexandria, Va., play in the flood waters on King Street as people venture out to survey the damage in Old Town Alexandria, Va., Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, the day after Hurricane Sandy slammed into the region. Flood water in Old Town is slightly higher than normal after a heavy rain. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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A woman stands at the corner of King and S.Union Streets as people venture out to survey the damage in Old Town Alexandria, Va., Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, the day after Hurricane Sandy slammed into the region. Flood water in Old Town is slightly higher than normal after a heavy rain. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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James McConnon, 5, of Alexandria, Va., crosses King Street by way of flood water, as people venture out to survey the damage in Old Town Alexandria, Va., Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, the day after Hurricane Sandy slammed into the region. Flood water in Old Town is slightly higher than normal after a heavy rain. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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A fallen tree is propped up by a power line in the Beverly Hills neighborhood of Alexandria (Meredith Somers/The Washington Times)

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With the aid of New Jersey State police, a man walks with his dog to a National Guard vehicle after leaving his flooded home at the Metropolitan Trailer Park in Moonachie, N.J., Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, in the wake of superstorm Sandy. Sandy arrived along the East Coast and morphed into a huge and problematic system, putting more than 7.5 million homes and businesses in the dark and causing a number of deaths. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

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A tree leans against a house Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, in the Bay Ridge neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York, while another tree lies on a taxi with a shattered rear window in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy. New York City awakened Tuesday to a flooded subway system, shuttered financial markets and hundreds of thousands of people without power a day after a wall of seawater and high winds slammed into the city, destroying buildings and flooding tunnels. (AP Photo/David Boe)

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Lumber rests on a street below the Manhattan Bridge after being washed inland by flood waters superstorm Sandy, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, in New York. New York City awakened Tuesday to a flooded subway system, shuttered financial markets and hundreds of thousands of people without power a day after a wall of seawater and high winds slammed into the city, destroying buildings and flooding tunnels. (AP Photo/ John Minchillo)

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A member of the Moonachie Department of Public Works talks to a resident at the Metropolitan Trailer Park in Moonachie, N.J., Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. The park was flooded in the wake of superstorm Sandy. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

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

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