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A man walks past cottages damaged by Sandy on Roy Carpenter's Beach in the village of Matunuck, in South Kingstown, R.I.
Steven Senne
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Lauren Sinnott walks her dog, Becca, in a flooded street in downtown Annapolis, Md.
Jose Luis Magana
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People work to free a car stuck in beach sand deposited during high tide in Milford, Conn.
Jessica Hill
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President Barack Obama visits the Red Cross Disaster Operation Center in Washington. He has declared New York and New Jersey "federal disaster areas."
Pablo Martinez Monsivais
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney holds bags of food as he participates in a campaign event collecting supplies for victims of Sandy at the James S. Trent Arena in Kettering, Ohio.
Charles Dharapak
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Reece Hiner, 11, looks at a destroyed home in Pasadena, Md., where the homeowner was killed overnight when a tree fell on his home during Sandy.
Jose Luis Magana
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Phil Potvin climbs into position to cut a white pine after the tree toppled onto his father's home during Sandy in Scarborough, Maine.
Robert F. Bukaty
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A fallen tree damaged a car and blocks a street on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Tuesday. Washington escaped significant damage from Sandy, but tens of thousands of residents experienced power outages.
Becky Lettenberger
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Waves pound a lighthouse on the shores of Lake Erie, near Cleveland. High winds spinning off the edge of Sandy took a vicious swipe at northeast Ohio, uprooting trees, cutting power to hundreds of thousands, forcing school closures and flooding parts of major commuter arteries that run along the lake.
Tony Dejak
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A crewman works on grounding power lines damaged when a large tree was blown down in Falls Church, Va.
Shawn Thew
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Onlookers take photos as strong waves created by Sandy crash against the Lake Michigan waterfront on the South Side of Chicago, Ill.
M. Spencer Green
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Snowplows open Interstate 68 in Garrett County, Md.
Gary Cameron
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A person walks through snow in Belington, W.Va. Sandy buried parts of the state under more than a foot of snow, cutting power to at least 264,000 customers. Authorities closed nearly 50 miles of interstate.
Robert Ray
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