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In this photo taken Nov. 19, 2012, Roseanne Schnoll holds her parents' wedding album, a keepsake item she recovered from workers were cleaning out her flooded basement and garage in the Belle Harbor neighborhood New York. Scholl's house is only yards from the Atlantic Ocean. -
In this photo taken Friday, Nov. 16, 2012, Marge Gatti holds the ashes of her brother, Robert J. DeMaria II, on the front steps of her home, which was damaged by Superstorm Sandy, in Staten Island, New York. Gatti's son was able to recover the ashes from the wreckage of the house after the storm, which will likely be demolished. -
In this photo of Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2012, Paul Ciccarello views a Kodachrome slide outside his home in the oceanside community of Breezy Point in New York. Ciccarello found a slide carousel of 100 family photos in the bottom drawer of a file cabinet that was flooded during Superstorm Sandy. -
In this Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012 photo, Rosemary McDermott and her husband, Anthony Minor, pose with an Irish wall hanging they were able to salvage from the basement of her mother's home in the Breezy Point section of the Queens borough of New York. A fire destroyed more than 100 homes in the oceanfront community during Superstorm Sandy. -
In this photo taken Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012, Bill Curtis poses with a decorative seahorse he was able to salvage from his fire-damaged home in the Breezy Point section of the Queens borough of New York. A fire destroyed more than 100 homes in the oceanfront community during Superstorm Sandy. -
In this photo taken Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012, Bruce Randall poses for a picture with an antique camera at his home which was severely damaged by Superstorm Sandy in Staten Island, New York. Randall is a collector and restorer of many mechanical devices, cameras included, and many of them were damaged during the storm. This particular camera, which he believes is from the 1880's, was recovered after the storm in pieces throughout his house. Because it has few moving or mechanical parts, Randall believes he will be able to fix the camera. "Anything can be fixed, it's just a matter of how much effort," Randall said. -
In this Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012 photo, Dean Rasinya poses with a street sign salvaged from wreckage in the Breezy Point section of the Queens borough of New York. A fire destroyed more than 100 homes in the oceanfront community during Superstorm Sandy. Rasinya's home was flooded and suffered some fire damage but he is repairing the damage. -
In this photo taken Nov. 18, 2012, Allison Gilmartin holds pieces of a dinner plate she recovered from the ruins of her family's fire-ravaged home, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2012 in the Breezy Point section of the Queens borough of New York. More than 100 homes were destroyed by fire in the oceanside community during Superstorm Sandy. -
In this photo taken Friday, Nov. 18, 2012, Joanne McClenin holds a baptismal certificate for her father, Joseph Pompa, in her home, which was damaged by Superstorm Sandy, in the New Dorp section of Staten Island, New York. This document, along with many others that she kept from her parents, was stored in a shed outside that was completely washed out of her yard during the storm. Days after the storm, McClenin found the document on her doorstep, placed there by someone that had found it and recognized the name of her father. "I was there for them [her parents] in their time of need, now I feel like now he's there for me," McClenin said while talking about the document. -
In the photo taken Nov. 18, 2012, Eddie Saman holds a nebulizer, used to treat his chronic bronchitis, while sitting on his non-functioning motorcycle at his home, both damaged by Superstorm Sandy, in the New Dorp section of Staten Island, New York. About a week after the storm Saman found the nebulizer in his house but it was non-functioning; a few days later while at an aid station someone was able to replace it. Without the machine and the medicine, Saman is subject to constant coughing fits. -
In this photo taken Sunday, Nov. 18, 2012, Ray Marten poses with the street number sign he recovered from the ashes of his fire-destroyed home in the Belle Harbor section of the Queens borough of New York. Several homes and businesses were destroyed by fire in the oceanside community during Superstorm Sandy. -
In this photo taken Nov. 18, 2012, Glenn DiResto poses with a photograph he took after Superstorm Sandy, in the Far Rockaway section of the Queens borough of New York. Diresto took the photo the morning after the storm struck the oceanside community and destroyed the boardwalk, left.
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