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Business of disaster: Insurance firms profited $400 million after Sandy
2016-05-25 20:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: On a cold rainy day last fall, dozens of people gathered in a plaza across the street from New Jersey's state Capitol. They held press conferences and slept overnight in lawn chairs. Everyone had come to make the same point: They'd made it through Superstorm Sandy, which hit the shores of New Jersey and New York in October 2012. But three years later, many hadn't made it home. Doug Quinn, a 51-year-old from Toms River, N.J., had been in the plaza for two days. "I should be at home in my house...
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