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Day 2 begins: on the Marine Park bridge
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Piles of sand being removed from homes, businesses, streets.
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It's endless.
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Dumptrucks constantly going in, bringing debris, trash and sand.
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Arriving at YANA for our assigments, happy to see Mom
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Mia, the wondergrrl of YANA this weekend.
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You can see where they water line went up to way above the bar.
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Inside Connolly's Bar on Beach 95th. But they'll be open Memorial Day as usual, they promise!
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Photos got submerged, but still might be salvageable.
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More photos.
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Inside a flooded bungalow being torn down.
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My brother thankfully drove the wheelbarrow today! We worked on this driveway all day, shoveling sand. It was up to 8 inches or so on the sides, and tapered down in the middle.
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We dumped the sand into the street, and these guys would come periodically and take it away.
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Found a school bus toy in the sand.
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Also found a piece of a photo frame.
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Voila! A clean driveway!! It felt like such a huge accomplishment.
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Mom worked in the hot food distribution center.
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I like Dunkin's sentiment.
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Love. Hope. Peace. seen all over the Rockaways. provided by http://starsofhopeusa.org/
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Heading out over Marine Pkwy Bridge
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Arrival at YANA/Occupy.
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Beach 92nd at Shore Front Pkwy, where my brother and I worked for the day
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Our two new friends and us-- we shoveled out sand from Lucille's alley, about 5-6" deep.
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On a quick break
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We'd bring buckets of sand out into the street, and eventually bobcats and front-loaders would come scoop it away
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Lucille's neighbor's car floated into her house and banged against it all night during the storm
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Lucille showed us pictures of her family, who built this house in 1900 and had lived in it since
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Close-up of Lucille's family
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At the end of Beach 92nd St (aka, "Surfer Way," the decimated boardwalk
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More of where the boardwalk used to be
