Far Rockaway: Global Disaster Zone

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Image: An emergency clinic in the Far Rockaways. Photo: Michael Goldfarb/Doctors Without Borders

Submitted by Jeanne Heifetz

outsideonline.com - November 8th, 2012 - Matthew Power

On Election Day, a week after Hurricane Sandy had brought the largest city in America shuddering to a halt, there were still lines of cars at gas station stretching for blocks. At polling stations, the lines of voters stretched nearly as far. The Manhattan skyline twinkled with light again, and most of the subway tunnels had been dewatered by the Army Corps of Engineers.

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