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  • 31
    Oct
    2012
    11:44am, EDT

    New Yorkers head back to work (if they can get there)

    Matt Nighswander / NBC News

    Pedestrians cross the Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan on Oct. 31, as the city returns to life following Hurricane Sandy.

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    People wait for buses on 6th Avenue in New York on Oct. 31, 2012, as New Yorkers cope with the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.

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    Flooding at the South Ferry subway station in lower Manhattan.

     

    With subway lines crippled in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, New Yorkers had to find alternative methods of transportation to get to work--for most their first day back on the job since the storm. Buses are running, but they are clearly having trouble meeting the demand.

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    With limited functioning transportation options, people wait for ferry tickets to Manhattan on Oct. 31, 2012, in Hoboken, N.J.

    Jonathan Sanger / NBC News

    Commuters cross the Queensboro Bridge from Queens into Manhattan on Oct. 31.

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    A man looks up towards the New York Stock Exchange as he returns to work on Wall Street on Oct. 31, 2012.

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    Early morning commuters cross New York's Brooklyn Bridge on Oct. 31, the first morning it's been open to vehicle traffic since Hurricane Sandy.

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    Slideshow: Sandy slams into East Coast

    Superstorm Sandy made landfall Monday evening on a destructive and deadly path across the Northeast.

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  • 4
    Feb
    2011
    4:52am, EST

    Aftermath of fire in Manila, Philippines

    By Elena Grothe

    From the AP, a fire destroyed a row of shanties built on top of a creek rendering some 100 families homeless.

    Pat Roque / AP

    Residents with a baby survey what is left of their house after it was gutted by fire on Friday, Feb. 4, 2011 in Manila, Philippines. .

    Pat Roque / AP

    Residents clear debris in the area where their houses used to stand before they were gutted by fire on Friday, Feb. 4 in Manila, Philippines. A fire destroyed a row of shanties built on top of a creek rendering some 100 families homeless.

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    A man salvages materials from his house after it was gutted by fire on Friday in Manila. A fire destroyed a row of shanties built on top of a creek rendering some 100 families homeless.

     

     

     

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    I Pray for all these people as to be poor and have Little and then lose all you have built up and then Lose it all is the worse feeling of all God Help these people as our Government will not Life is not fair to most, I Hope the government will send in the best fire specialist to find out if this w …

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