Sandy: Chronicle of an unrelenting storm

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Large crowds of people walk along the newly rebuilt boardwalk in Seaside Heights, N.J., on Memorial Day, May 27, 2013. The first summer season after Superstorm Sandy is underway at the Jersey shore, parts of which were devastated by the October storm.

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President Barack Obama and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie walk along the boardwalk during their visit to Point Pleasant, NJ., May 28, 2013. Obama traveled to New Jersey to join Christie to inspect and tour the Jersey Shore's recovery efforts from Hurricane Sandy.

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Workers use a crane to remove remnants of the Jet Star roller coaster in Seaside Heights, N.J., on May 14, 2013. The structures of this and other amusement park rides had been left in the Atlantic Ocean after superstorm Sandy hit the Jersey shore last October.

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Dennis Klaus walks from his mobile home village in New Milford, Conn., May 5, 2013. Mr. Klaus is among 14 New York families displaced by superstorm Sandy to be provided temporary housing at a makeshift mobile home park set up by former New Yorkers at Faith Church.

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Heavy machinery excavate land in the Breezy Point section of the New York borough of Queens on April 29, 2013, six months after superstorm Sandy made landfall.

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Men sunbathe in front of a closed business on the boardwalk of New York's Coney Island, March 30, 2013. Despite making the traditional Palm Sunday opening, many seasonal businesses at Coney Island are still reeling from the aftermath of superstorm Sandy.

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Thomas Carroll of Hoboken, N.J. (center l.), gives a kiss to his new bride, Stephanie McClure of Smyrna, Ga., as a small party cheers for them moments after they were married by city clerk James Farina at Hoboken City Hall on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. The couple was scheduled to get married on Nov. 3 in Point Pleasant, N.J., but superstorm Sandy washed away their wedding. Meanwhile, residents of Hoboken voted in the presidential election on Election Day in a polling place located in the adjacent room.

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A home damaged by hurricane Sandy is seen in Union Beach, N.J., Nov. 12, 2012. At least 121 people perished in the storm, which caused an estimated $50 billion in property damage and economic losses and ranks as one of the most destructive natural disasters to hit the US Northeast.

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Robert Connolly, left, embraces his wife, Laura, as they survey the remains of the home owned by her parents. It burned to the ground in the Breezy Point section of New York, Oct. 30, 2012. More than 50 homes were destroyed in the fire that swept through the oceanfront community during superstorm Sandy. At right is their son, Kyle.

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Soldiers from the National Guard help to unload supplies to set up a donation distribution center for victims of superstorm Sandy at St. Camillus School in the Rockaways area of Queens, N.Y., Nov. 4.

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Grace Chow, of New York, carries a large bucket of water on a 20-floor trip to help an older resident at Confucius Plaza in New York's Chinatown, Nov. 1, 2012. In the wake of superstorm Sandy, power outages have also meant the loss of water for some buildings.

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NYPD police officer Mikki Watson holds up Tyniqua Ellis, 2, in a line for food donations in the Rockaways section of the Queens borough of New York.

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Commuters wait in a line to board buses into Manhattan in front of the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012. The line stretched twice around the arena, and commuters reported wait times of one to three hours to get on a bus.

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People line up at one of the few gas stations left open on New York City's hard-hit Staten Island on Nov. 2, 2012.

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A man, who said he was contracting for the US Environmental Protection Agency, transports hazardous goods after collecting them from burnt houses in Breezy Point, almost a month after the neighborhood was left devastated by hurricane Sandy in the New York borough of Queens on November 27, 2012.

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Craig Ruttle/AP

Ariel Nadelberg pours hot soup in a cup at a parking lot that has become a place where those in need after superstorm Sandy can get food and clothing in the Rockaway neighborhood of the borough of Queens, New York, on Monday, Nov. 5, 2012.

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People travel in a bus from Manhattan back to the Brooklyn borough in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in New York November 1, 2012. New York subway trains crawled back to limited service after being shut down since Sunday, but the lower half of Manhattan still lacked power and surrounding areas such as Staten Island, the New Jersey shore, and the city of Hoboken remained crippled from a record storm surge and flooding.

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Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP

President Barack Obama (c.) and Federal Emergency Management (FEMA) administrator Craig Fugate (l.) watch as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (2nd l.) meets with local residents at Brigantine Beach Community Center, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, in Brigantine, NJ.

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Medical workers assist a patient into an ambulance during an evacuation of New York University's Tisch Hospital, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, in New York. The New York City hospital is moving out more than 200 patients after its backup generator failed when the power was knocked out by a superstorm.