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    East Coast residents are preparing for a historic storm that's expected to strike the region early next week. Click through for photos.

    A worker boards up the windows of the store as Hurricane Sandy approaches in Ocean City, Md., on Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012.

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    Home Depot workers Shaun Sika (left) and Jose Maysonet load the last generator on the store's shelves into a customer's SUV in Glastonbury, Conn., on Thursday.

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    Rick Fischer, a marina owner in Point Pleasant Beach, N.J., drives a machine that lifts boats out of the water on Friday. His marina had 10 boat removals lined up before 7 a.m. as worried boat owners watched the progress of the massive storm moving up the East Coast.

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    BGE workers Jordan Sauer (left) and William MacAleese load plastic bags to be filled with sand at a BGE storage yard in Baltimore on Friday.

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    Fishing boats head out to sea from the Point Pleasant Beach side of the Manasquan Inlet, N.J., at dawn on Friday.

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    Andy Lugo talks on the phone on Friday after stocking up on supplies for branches of First Republic Bank in anticipation of the storm.

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    A public works employee piles sand in a gap between dunes on the Manasquan, N.J., beach on Friday as part of the borough's preparations for a massive storm moving up the East Coast.

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    Baltimore Gas & Electric (BGE) workers talk at a BGE storage yard in Baltimore on Friday.