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-I wonder why my friend, and then most of my coworkers, thought the chicken-and-waffles-flavored potato chips were too weird?

-Recently, they reopened the stretch of Route 35 that goes past the shore areas that were hardest hit by Hurricane Sandy. Yesterday afternoon, I went for a ride with my friend down that stretch of highway for the first time since the storm.

For most of New York and New Jersey, everything has mostly settled back to normalcy. So it was more than a little sobering to see houses still shifted off of their foundations, rusting cars still strewn around in backyards, and mounds of sand still everywhere. The shore will be back, but it's going to take a lot of time and effort to bring things back to normal.

This one was taken in Seaside Heights, NJ.