Hurricane Sandy Fast Facts

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Updated 1:20 PM EDT, Thu October 5, 2023
Cleaning crews work in Manhattan's financial district following damage from Superstorm Sandy on Monday, November 12. <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/30/us/gallery/ny-sandy/index.html" target="_blank"><strong>View photos of New York's recovery.</strong></a>
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Cleaning crews work in Manhattan's financial district following damage from Superstorm Sandy on Monday, November 12. View photos of New York's recovery.
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Evelyn Faherty hugs a friend on Sunday, November 11,<strong> </strong>while discussing the damage done to her home by Superstorm Sandy in the Breezy Point neighborhood of Queens, New York.
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Evelyn Faherty hugs a friend on Sunday, November 11, while discussing the damage done to her home by Superstorm Sandy in the Breezy Point neighborhood of Queens, New York.
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Volunteers shovel sand and water out of the basement of Monir Islam's home in the Rockaway Park neighborhood of Queens, New York, on Sunday. The Rockaways peninsula in Queens was one of the areas hardest hit by Sandy. <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/09/us/gallery/sandy-rockaway/index.html" target="_blank">See photos of Rockaway's continuing struggles</a>.
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Volunteers shovel sand and water out of the basement of Monir Islam's home in the Rockaway Park neighborhood of Queens, New York, on Sunday. The Rockaways peninsula in Queens was one of the areas hardest hit by Sandy. See photos of Rockaway's continuing struggles.
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Furniture and other belongings are strewn under and around a beach house damaged by Sandy on Saturday, November 10, in Mystic Island, New Jersey.
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Furniture and other belongings are strewn under and around a beach house damaged by Sandy on Saturday, November 10, in Mystic Island, New Jersey.
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Streets in Ortley Beach, New Jersey, were destroyed by Sandy.
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Streets in Ortley Beach, New Jersey, were destroyed by Sandy.
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Clean-up continues on Saturday, November 10 among piles of debris where a large section of the iconic boardwalk was washed away in the heavily damaged Rockaways.
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Clean-up continues on Saturday, November 10 among piles of debris where a large section of the iconic boardwalk was washed away in the heavily damaged Rockaways.
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Mac Baker, right, poses with her niece Nytaisha Baker next to pots of water she heats on the floor with small flames for a bit of warmth in Baker's unheated apartment in the Ocean Bay public housing projects in the Far Rockaway neighborhood in Queens on Friday, November 9.
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Mac Baker, right, poses with her niece Nytaisha Baker next to pots of water she heats on the floor with small flames for a bit of warmth in Baker's unheated apartment in the Ocean Bay public housing projects in the Far Rockaway neighborhood in Queens on Friday, November 9.
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Theresa Goddard, her apartment still without electricity, is overwhelmed while discussing her living conditions on Thursday, November 8, in the Brooklyn borough of New York.
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Theresa Goddard, her apartment still without electricity, is overwhelmed while discussing her living conditions on Thursday, November 8, in the Brooklyn borough of New York.
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A police officer carries blankets donated by Ikea for people affected by Superstorm Sandy in Brooklyn.
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A police officer carries blankets donated by Ikea for people affected by Superstorm Sandy in Brooklyn.
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Debris from Superstorm Sandy is seen on a beach Thursday in Long Branch, New Jersey.
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Debris from Superstorm Sandy is seen on a beach Thursday in Long Branch, New Jersey.
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Troops from the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit and the U.S. Navy help local residents remove household items damaged by Superstorm Sandy on November 6, in the New Dorp Beach neighborhood of Staten Island, New York.
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Troops from the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit and the U.S. Navy help local residents remove household items damaged by Superstorm Sandy on November 6, in the New Dorp Beach neighborhood of Staten Island, New York.
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Voter Sheresa Walker uses a flashlight for poll worker Lloyd Edwards in a tent set up as a polling place in Queens, New York.
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Voter Sheresa Walker uses a flashlight for poll worker Lloyd Edwards in a tent set up as a polling place in Queens, New York.
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A poll worker directs people to a temporary polling center in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn, New York. Polling sites in Coney Island and the surrounding area were damaged during Superstorm Sandy.
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A poll worker directs people to a temporary polling center in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn, New York. Polling sites in Coney Island and the surrounding area were damaged during Superstorm Sandy.
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Michael Fischkelta, 8, lies on his cot with his mother, Jenifer Wilson, in a Red Cross evacuation shelter set up in the gymnasium of Toms River High School on Monday, November 5, in Toms River, New Jersey. <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/30/us/gallery/ny-sandy/index.html">View photos of the recovery efforts in New York.</a>
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Michael Fischkelta, 8, lies on his cot with his mother, Jenifer Wilson, in a Red Cross evacuation shelter set up in the gymnasium of Toms River High School on Monday, November 5, in Toms River, New Jersey. View photos of the recovery efforts in New York.
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Ruth Hawfield sits next to her cot Monday in a Red Cross evacuation shelter at Toms River High School.
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Ruth Hawfield sits next to her cot Monday in a Red Cross evacuation shelter at Toms River High School.
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A woman fills out an early voting ballot on Sunday, November 4, in Jersey City, New Jersey. Gov. Chris Christie ordered early voting stations to stay open through the weekend in an effort to get people to vote despite the damage done by Superstorm Sandy.
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A woman fills out an early voting ballot on Sunday, November 4, in Jersey City, New Jersey. Gov. Chris Christie ordered early voting stations to stay open through the weekend in an effort to get people to vote despite the damage done by Superstorm Sandy.
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A woman sifts through her mother's damaged home for items to save Sunday in the Breezy Point neighborhood of Queens, New York.
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A woman sifts through her mother's damaged home for items to save Sunday in the Breezy Point neighborhood of Queens, New York.
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A workman repairs damage to the steeple of the First United Methodist Church on Sunday in Port Jefferson, New York.
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A workman repairs damage to the steeple of the First United Methodist Church on Sunday in Port Jefferson, New York.
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People sift through their damaged home on Sunday in Breezy Point.
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People sift through their damaged home on Sunday in Breezy Point.
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A statue of a firefighter stands in front of a burned down house Sunday in Rockaway, New York.
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A statue of a firefighter stands in front of a burned down house Sunday in Rockaway, New York.
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Abraham Cambrelen, 19, takes the Staten Island Ferry to go check on his mother Sunday while New York recovers from Hurricane Sandy.
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Abraham Cambrelen, 19, takes the Staten Island Ferry to go check on his mother Sunday while New York recovers from Hurricane Sandy.
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Crowds wait for free gas on Saturday, November 3, at the Bedford Avenue Armory in Brooklyn, New York.
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Crowds wait for free gas on Saturday, November 3, at the Bedford Avenue Armory in Brooklyn, New York.
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A house sits devastated by Superstorm Sandy on Friday, November 2, in Union Beach, New Jersey. The cost of the storm's damage in the U.S. is estimated at between $30 billion and $50 billion, according to disaster modeling firm Eqecat.
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A house sits devastated by Superstorm Sandy on Friday, November 2, in Union Beach, New Jersey. The cost of the storm's damage in the U.S. is estimated at between $30 billion and $50 billion, according to disaster modeling firm Eqecat.
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A baby picture lies beneath rubble in a neighborhood devastated by the storm in Union Beach on Friday.
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A baby picture lies beneath rubble in a neighborhood devastated by the storm in Union Beach on Friday.
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Flood-damaged belongings sit on the side of the road in Union Beach on Friday.
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Flood-damaged belongings sit on the side of the road in Union Beach on Friday.
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