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Homes on the Rockaway Peninsula in the Queens borough of New York were ravaged by Superstorm Sandy. Building inspectors trained in Fairfax were sent to New York in recent weeks to assess damage. (Associated Press)

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A protester takes cover from the rain after a protest near the parliament during clashes in Athens on Wednesday Nov. 7, 2012. (AP Photo Nikolas Giakoumidis)

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Don McMahon, right, director of facilities management at the Atlantic City Rescue Mission in Atlantic City, N.J., takes the Audas family on a tour to show them all of the items people have donated for Hurricane Sandy victims on Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012. They will return to the mission on Friday to volunteer. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Pulte Homes is building 340 single-family homes at the Hamlets at Red Cedar in Leesburg. The Chastworth model, with 4,589 finished square feet, is priced from $735,990.

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Van Metre Homes is building 26 homes with a golf course view at the Estates at Bull Run Golf Club in Haymarket, Va. The Highland model, with 3,610 finished square feet, is priced from $749,990.

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** FILE ** Crowds of shoppers were ready to storm stores across the country last year as Black Friday began at the stroke of midnight. (Associated Press)

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Adrianna Costa arrives at the 40th Anniversary American Music Awards on Sunday, Nov. 18, 2012, in Los Angeles. (Photo by John Shearer/Invision/AP)

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This CD cover image released by Atlantic records shows the original motion picture soundtrack for "The Twilight Saga: Brealing dawn Part 2." (AP Photo/Atlantic)

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Fireboat response crews battle the blazing remnants of the offshore Deepwater Horizon on April 21, 2010. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard)

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Michael Harris Homes is building 18 single-family homes at Maple Lawn in Fulton. The Bristol model is priced from $679,990.

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K.Hovnanian Homes is building 13 homes at the Estates at Evergreen Reserve in Ashburn, Va. The Tara model is base-priced from $1,399,990.

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**FILE** Workers use heavy machinery spread sand in Harvey Cedars on Long Beach Island, N.J. A nor'easter smacked the storm-ravaged Jersey shore a week and half after Superstorm Sandy wrecked many of its beaches, dunes and boardwalks, and left low-lying communities newly vulnerable to flooding, wind damage and power outages. (Associated Press)

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A New York Police Department van broadcasts the location of warm shelters over a loudspeaker as snow as it accumulates in the Rockaway Park neighborhood of the borough of Queens, New York, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012, in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. A Noreaster is complicating an already difficult situation with wind and blowing snow. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

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People walk through snow as it accumulates in the Rockaway Beach neighborhood of the borough of Queens, New York, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012, in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. A Noreaster is complicating an already difficult situation with wind and blowing snow. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

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Jason Auer works in the snow cleaning a relatives house in the New Dorp section of Staten Island, New York, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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Superstorm Sandy debris from a miniature golf course sits under snow at Jenkinson's Boardwalk, Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012, in Point Pleasant, N.J. The area was hit by a nor'easter Wednesday the second storm in two weeks. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)