Sandy plowed up the East Coast last week, leaving almost unimaginable damage and a number of indelible TV images in its wake: The crane boom in New York that snapped in high winds and swung precariously 90 stories above the city, the Breezy Point, Queens, conflagration that consumed more than 100 homes and whose images captured on TV Mayor Michael Bloomberg said reminded him of wildfires out West, which also burned themselves into our memories thanks to TV images; the still photo of water gushing around the door in a PATH train station; and the evacuation of patients-some of them newborns-from a hospital without either power or backup power among them.
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