For me, Bimini has always been a tranquil place to escape the commotion of big-city living, a sandy haven where I can sit and listen to the ocean waves gently slapping the shoreline.
New York and New Jersey, where Sandy made landfall Monday, continue to bear the brunt of the region's outages.
Abandoned homes dot one neighborhood where Sandy swept more than a dozen houses out to sea, leaving behind driveways leading nowhere.
Located just 2km south of Chora, Kapsali is characterised by a curved waterfront and sandy twin bays where sea turtles are known to swim.
In New Jersey, where Sandy made landfall shortly before 8 PM Monday, more than 2 million customers are without power, the Associated Press reported.
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In New York, where Sandy brought a record 14ft (4.2m) tidal surge, the National Guard is to deliver a million meals and bottled water to residents affected by the storm.
Earlier in the day he did a food demonstration at the Sandy Lane Hotel where fans bought every copy of his new book, The Latin Road Home, his second cookbook, which tells the story of his food journey.
The question now is simply: how hard will Sandy hit, and where will the major impacts be felt?
Friday's visit also coincided with the second day of school for students from Sandy Hook Elementary, where 20 of their classmates -- all ages 6 or 7 -- were killed last month.
The space is located in Newtown's Reed Intermediate School, where students of Sandy Hook elementary go after graduating.
The National Football League also announced that singer Jennifer Hudson would be performing America the Beautiful with the chorus from Connecticut's Sandy Hook Elementary School, where 20 children and six adults were killed in a mass shooting in December.
The youngest of her two sons, suspected gunman Adam Lanza, 20, allegedly shot her in the head multiple times before heading to Sandy Hook Elementary School, where he took his own life with a single bullet, according to Connecticut's chief medical examiner.
Winged Foot also is where former USGA President Sandy Tatum offered the defining comment for the U.S. Open.
Paddlers pass sandy beaches, protected wilderness areas where ospreys and eagles roam and a blue heron rookery with upwards of 50 nests.
The frightening story of the deeply corrupt judge made headlines when Ciavarella was confronted by Sandy Fonzo outside the Pennsylvania courthouse where he had been convicted.
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It was not good news in portions of New York and New Jersey, where homes destroyed by Superstorm Sandy in places such as Staten Island and Far Rockaway, Queens, lacked basic utilities needed to restore heat.
While Alicia Keys and Jennifer Hudson (the latter singing with the choir from Sandy Hook Elementary, the Connecticut school where 20 children were killed in December) also will perform, Knowles will command the stage once the San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Ravens break for halftime.
The number of dead in the US now exceeds the toll from the Caribbean, where 69 people were killed by Sandy.
In fact immediately after Sandy struck, Al lost no time figuring out where to place the blame.
Later this week, Obama visits New Jersey where beachfront businesses are reopening after Superstorm Sandy, a hopeful sign for Oklahoma residents just now coming to grips with their own loss.
Days before the Nets were supposed to make their Brooklyn debut at the Barclays Center, on November 1, their long-time announcer was home in New Jersey, preparing for the arrival of Hurricane Sandy and thinking about a flight to Texas, where he was scheduled to call the Buffalo- Houston game on November 4.
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Hurricane Sandy is now heading towards the US East Coast - where states including North Carolina, Virginia, Connecticut and Delaware are on emergency alert.
In one episode, after Hurricane Sandy, he visits a gas-station line, where a driver tells Bell that the police are helping to move his car.
They contrast the rapid recovery in the U.S. from the effects of Hurricane Sandy with the disastrous consequences from the same storm for Haiti, where up to 2 million people may face malnutrition after crops were washed away.
Lhota formerly ran the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, where he got kudos for the agency's rebound from Superstorm Sandy.
In a twist, Hurricane (or super storm) Sandy actually helped drive up Hollywood box office numbers this weekend in the Northeast, where kids were off school on Friday and people over the weekend were seeking entertainment refuge from a very bad week of flooding, power loss and devastation.
Depending on where they live, New York City residents have been affected very differently by hurricane Sandy, as I wrote here.
My journey took me to BBC Television Centre in west London where I was wheeled out as the latest talking head analysing the impact of Hurricane Sandy as it battered the east coast of the United States.
Last November, three weeks after Superstorm Sandy ravaged the Northeast seaboard, I visited my childhood home near Sea Bright, New Jersey, where my parents still live.
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This is a course where the 1st and 18th hole are by the clubhouse, usually by the seaside and on sandy soil.
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