"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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