It dwarfed all of the other structures in town and dominated the entire mountain plain that surrounded the city.

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Shobe went on to say there are a lot of structures with damage north of Newcastle and in the town of Tuttle.

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Meanwhile in New York half-completed structures dot Brooklyn's once-thriving Williamsburg neighborhood, while the massive Stuyvesant Town apartment complex in Manhattan teeters at the edge of bankruptcy.

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