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Officials stunned by $33 billion damage estimate

An insurance adjuster surveys a destroyed property on

Photo credit: Angela Gaul | An insurance adjuster surveys a destroyed property on River Road in Stony Point. He declined to give his name or the company he works for but said, "This reminds me of after [Hurricane] Katrina." (Nov. 8, 2012)

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's "staggering" $33 billion estimate on the cost of Hurricane Sandy has left many officials in the Hudson Valley wondering how they are going to cope with their share of the bill.

At a Manhattan news conference Thursday afternoon, Cuomo spoke of $33 billion in damages and economic losses in New York State alone, suggesting that the hurricane had inflicted an additional...

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