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Brave or foolish Sandy thrill-seeker?

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    Self-proclaimed adventurerer and NJ native explains why he's riding out Hurricane Sandy

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Maybe your towns up and down the Atlantic seaboard sandy slamming into Maryland's coast leaning parts of Ocean City -- an underwater.

Frank pubic is riding out the storm in a waterfront Condo in Ocean City he joins us by phone -- Avian tell me frank.

What still what you see tonight as he looked out your window towards this hurricane as it came barreling down on him.

-- there -- you worry I was very interesting -- -- -- -- a little bit now but I'm starting probably about 8:33 o'clock.

He really kicked up and not 5 o'clock while the wind was raging.

And the ocean is just been -- control all day.

-- -- -- -- -- Now no I wouldn't try -- to understand my numbers here my whole life growing up been.

I'm sort of amateur storm chaser I guess you could stand -- any time there's -- -- when I usually like to make it out here -- Here we have a kinda what Florio -- Condo.

I look back and -- -- I was on the first score ocean front I probably would have hesitated but I know.

Nothing's gonna happen here -- you are sure on the second floor -- that is that three story Condo.

I'm part of the water come up -- off the off the usual speech there.

Well.

-- the -- as good as I've got a 10200 yards indeed and the water came all the way up -- didn't.

And you know maybe -- or twenty feet up into the -- but they've built them up.

For years about spin around the water -- come -- the walkways the beach access points where people walked through.

And pulled down below are building in southern neighbors buildings but had been -- over top the top are.

I assume I mean I let me like New York right now she may have heard it's got -- very -- -- catastrophic situation going on there it's sort of it's sort of hard to assess the damage there.

Some of the other areas.

Are you satisfied.

That the water that the water came up far on the beach where you are but that day it's unlikely -- -- got -- where you are.

Did I mean where I -- is a good location but southern Ocean City got really -- I mean they're historic -- is torn down the -- -- flooded.

I know right across the street from where I am on base side they evacuated.

Community there so it did I mean despite -- -- fire where I am in Ocean City got really crushed our.

And how -- sit here from where your -- is just there's some.

Larry number and aren't quite nice straighter probably down my first street said the good ways and it's saying -- not -- -- not letting anyone drives.

South of 62 street so which is just a few miles away everything's -- -- the bridges they're close all the bridges and there are closed now.

So you know even if it was -- you want to leave you you can't.

So -- defensive cents a depends enormously am -- where you are and the and -- -- built up around anyway frank thank you.

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