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us, for the last hour or so we ve been driving 18 miles to the east to scan out and give you a perspective of what the rest of this area looks like. long beach, you should know, is one of the outer islands, barrier islands for long island here in new york. to be honest with you, we have seen scattered trees down over the course of the day, but in the last hour or so we have not seen much damage, which is the good news. right now there s heavy cloud cover, it seems to us we are getting the back end of this storm. no rain. it s been dry for the last several hours, but there is some whipping winds, not enough to cause damage but to let you know something may have happened earlier today, that being irene passing through. many people are trying to get back to their organized routine. coney island specifically we saw quickly after the sun came out or the majority of the storm passed, people quickly returned to their neighborhoods to try to get a sense of what it looked like and what they had

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