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Here's a look at the nor'easter of December 1992 through the lens of Newsday staff photographers. The storm was among the worst to hit Long Island in the 20th century. Tides spurred by heavy rain and gale-force winds swamped the North and South Shores, flooded highways and shut down train service. The storm claimed at least one life, interrupted electric power for 448,000 customers and washed dozens of beachfront homes into the sea.  

Day 1: Water, water everywhere

Credit: Newsday/Julia Gaines

Flooding on Peconic Avenue in Riverhead on Dec. 11, 1992, the day the nor'easter hit.

Credit: Newsday/Daniel Goodrich

A family watches the water approach their Bayview Street home in Seaford.

Credit: Newsday/Daniel Goodrich

Residents of King David Manor in Long Beach wait for power to be restored.

Credit: Newsday/Vince Antolini

A park ranger surveys damage along Long Beach Road in Smithtown.

Credit: Newsday/Dick Kraus

A woman sloshes down Venetian Boulevard in Lindenhurst while cars make their way through the flooded street.

Credit: Newsday/Benny Stumbo

Rescue workers in a boat navigate flooded streets to check on homeowners on Emmons Avenue in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn.

Day 2: The aftermath

Credit: Newsday/John Keating

Three Eatons Neck residents carry provisions into their washed-out and cut-off community on Dec. 12.

Credit: Newsday/John Keating

Asharoken Avenue resident Eva Filiberto is helped off an evacuation truck by police officer Jeff Josephson and guardsman Dan O'Leary in Eatons Neck.

Credit: Newsday/K. Wiles Stabile

Horses on Fire Island are taken to a main road for evacuation after their corral flooded.

Credit: Newsday/John H. Cornell, Jr.

Windblown vessels litter Orchard Steet in New Suffolk.

Credit: Newsday/John H. Cornell, Jr.

On Orchard Street in New Suffolk, a boat from a boatyard across the road is washed up against a building.

Credit: Newsday/John H. Cornell, Jr.

A car is towed from the flooded parking lot at South Ferry on Shelter Island, where the water was three feet deep.

Credit: Newsday/K. Wiles Stabile

A home on East Walk in Saltaire rests partly on the beach after being knocked off its foundation.

Credit: Newsday/Jim Peppler

Nassau County Executive Thomas Gulotta wades through the water flooding Army Place in Bellmore to see storm damage.

Credit: Newsday/John H. Cornell, Jr.

Cars leave the flooded parking lot at South Ferry on Shelter Island.

Day 3: Powering up and bailing out

Credit: Newsday/Bill Davis

Niagara Mohawk of Watertown works to restore power to village residents in Thomaston on the Great Neck peninsula on Dec. 13.

Credit: Newsday/Don Jacobsen

Firefighter Mike Perullo rescues Mary Watts, 77, from her home on 6th Street in Bayville.

Credit: Newsday/Kathy Kmonicek

Thomas Delilla, in the foreground, and his friend Bill Klink spend the afternoon clearing an uprooted 60-year-old pine tree from Delilla's property at the corner of Roosevelt and Casino Streets in Freeport.

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