She was born, like all hurricanes, as a faintly inauspicious stirring of winds. But she didn’t come from off the coast of Africa, as many tropical Atlantic storms do. She was a child of the Caribbean.
MOVING OUT What’s left of Hurricane Sandy exits over the Great Lakes in this image taken in the wee hours of October 31.
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