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A rapid deployment gage that was installed ahead of Hurricane Sandy on a bridge in Newburyport, Massachusetts.

After Hurricane Sandy, USGS researchers survey elevation at the location of a wrack line, indicating a high-water level mark, on Block Island, Rhode Island.

A USGS hydrologist takes a high-water level measurement on a piling of the Department of Fish and Game Public Boat Ramp in Scituate Harbor in Plymouth County, Massachusetts.

USGS attached a storm-tide sensor to a piling in Barnstable, Massachusetts ahead of Hurricane Sandy. 

Overwash processes caused by storms, like the one seen here following Hurricane Sandy on a barrier island in Virginia, push sand landward over dunes to create low-elevation, minimally vegetated sandy habitats used by a variety of species, like piping plovers.

A coastal home damaged by Hurricane Sandy's historic storm surge on a beach in Rhode Island.

A coastal home damaged by Hurricane Sandy's historic storm surge on a beach in Rhode Island.

USGS hydrologist operating Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) on Long Island shore after Hurricane Sandy.

Oblique aerial photograph Fire Island, New York. The
view is looking northwest across Fire Island towards Great South Bay. This
location is within Fire Island National Seashore near Old Inlet—a very narrow
portion of the island that has experienced breaching in previous large storms.
The island breached during Hurricane Sandy, creating a new inlet.

A coastal home damaged by Hurricane Sandy's historic storm surge on a beach in Rhode Island.

Barrier-island breach created by Hurricane Sandy at Fire Island National Seashore, N.Y.

Flooding from Hurricane Sandy breaks up a sidewalk at Seaside Park in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

USGS New England Water Science Center hydrologist measures a high-water level mark along the garage door of a coastal Connecticut home after Hurricane Sandy.

A Hurricane Sandy high-water mark measured by USGS in Fairfield County, Connecticut. The Sandy high-water mark is marked above the high-water mark for the Great Hurricane of 1938 and below the area's 100-year flood measurement. 

Hurricane Sandy flooding remains days after the storm passes in Fairfield County, Connecticut.

Sand carried by Hurricane Sandy flood waters covers picnic tables at Short Beach in Stratford, Connecticut days after the storm.

Days after Hurricane Sandy passed through the northeastern Atlantic seaboard, this sailboat remained wrecked on a dock in Connecticut.

Hurricane Sandy sent sand from Sound Beach in Old Lyme, Connecticut up the street to cover nearby benches.

USGS scientists, Michael Noll and Amy Simonson, installing storm surge sensors before Hurricane Sandy

Hydrologic technician installs a storm-tide sensor ahead of Hurricane Sandy in Milford Harbor, Connecticut.

Two storm tide sensors installed on a piling attached to a boardwalk on Short Beach in Stratford, Connecticut ahead of Hurricane Sandy.