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Richard Thomas walks through the floodwaters in front of his home after assisting neighbors as Hurricane Sandy bears down on the East Coast, on Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, in Fenwick Island, Del. Forecasters warned that the New York City region could face the worst of Sandy as it bore down on the Eastern Seaboard's largest cities Monday, forcing the shutdown of financial markets and mass transit, sending coastal residents fleeing and threatening high winds, rain and a wall of water up to 11 feet high. It could endanger up to 50 million people for days. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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** FILE ** The tall ship HMS Bounty sails on Lake Erie off Cleveland in July 2010. The U.S. Coast Guard has rescued 14 members of the crew forced to abandon after being caught in Hurricane Sandy off North Carolina on Monday, Oct. 29, 2012. The Coast Guard is searching for two other crew members. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)

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Al Daisey walks in the floodwaters in front of his home in Fenwick Island, Del., on Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, as Hurricane Sandy bears down on the East Coast. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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This NOAA satellite image shows Hurricane Sandy off the Mid Atlantic coastline moving toward the north with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph. Heavy rain spreads across North Carolina and Virginia coastlines into the Delmarva Peninsula. Farther east, rain showers are along a stationary front over the eastern Ohio Valley (AP Photo/Weather Underground)

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President Obama, after a briefing on Hurricane Sandy with Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator Craig Fugate (right), said, “My message to the governors, as well as to the mayors, is: ‘Anything they need, we will be there.’ (Associated Press)

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Fairfield University students leave the campus in Fairfield, Conn. Sunday Oct. 28, 2012. Tens of thousands of people were ordered to evacuate coastal areas Sunday as big cities and small towns across the U.S. Northeast braced for the onslaught of a superstorm threatening some 60 million people along the most heavily populated corridor in the nation. (AP Photo/The Connecticut Post, Cathy Zuraw)

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Senior hurricane specialist Stacy Stewart plots NOAA and Air Force aircraft fixes at the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. Hurricane Sandy is heading north from the Caribbean, where it left nearly five dozen dead, to meet a winter storm and a cold front, plus high tides from a full moon, and experts said the rare hybrid storm that results will cause havoc over 800 miles from the East Coast to the Great Lakes. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

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Two pedestrians walk along the Atlantic City Boardwalk in Atlantic City N.J., as the area prepares for Hurricane Sandy. Tens of thousands of people were ordered to evacuate coastal areas Sunday as big cities and small towns across the U.S. Northeast braced for the onslaught of a superstorm threatening some 60 million people along the most heavily populated corridor in the nation. (AP Photo/ Joseph Kaczmarek)

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Passengers wait for their flight at at LaGuardia airport, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012 in New York. Tens of thousands of residents were ordered to evacuate coastal areas Sunday as big cities and small towns across the Northeast buttoned up against the onslaught of a superstorm (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

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A worker with the Delaware Department of Transportation directs traffic off of Highway 1 at Fred Hudson Road as Hurricane Sandy bears down on the East Coast, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012, in Bethany Beach, Del. Highway 1 is closed northbound from this point with water over the road according to the Delaware State Police. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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A car goes through the high water as Hurricane Sandy bears down on the East Coast, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012, in Ocean City, Md. Governors from North Carolina, where steady rains were whipped by gusting winds Saturday night, to Connecticut declared states of emergency. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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Tom Morehead, a driver with Ocean City, Md., public transportation, assists Evelyn Krainatc to a convention center on her way to a shelter, as Hurricane Sandy bears down on the East Coast, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012, in Ocean City, Md. Tens of thousands of people were ordered to evacuate coastal areas Sunday as big cities and small towns across the U.S. Northeast braced for the onslaught of a superstorm threatening some 60 million people along the most heavily populated corridor in the nation. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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High winds blow sea foam into the air as a person walks across Jeanette's Pier in Nags Head, N.C., Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012, as wind and rain from Hurricane Sandy move into the area. Governors from North Carolina, where steady rains were whipped by gusting winds Saturday night, to Connecticut declared states of emergency. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

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Ocean water rolls over NC 12 at the north end of Buxton, N.C. at dawn on Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. Waves from offshore Hurricane Sandy are battering Hatteras Island. (AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, Steve Earley)

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A news crew wades through sea foam blown onto Jeanette's Pier in Nags Head, N.C., Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012 as wind and rain from Hurricane Sandy move into the area. Governors from North Carolina, where steady rains were whipped by gusting winds Saturday night, to Connecticut declared states of emergency. Delaware ordered mandatory evacuations for coastal communities by 8 p.m. Sunday. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)