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Riverhead flood victim offers hope to those hit by Sandy

February 4, 2013 10:19 PM By JOYE BROWN joye.brown@newsday.com

Standing on the front porch of her home,

Photo credit: Newsday/Joe Epstein | Standing on the front porch of her home, Linda Hobson talks about the flooding on Horton Ave which forced her and numerous neighbors to move out of their homes. (April 4, 2010)

Linda Hobson didn't live near the shore. But her house on Horton Avenue was in a Riverhead neighborhood so prone to flooding it was dubbed "The Bottoms."

Over several decades, the town -- in a series of programs echoed by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's post-superstorm Sandy plan to use federal funds for buying properties repeatedly damaged by floodwaters.

It's unclear which federal program Cuomo...

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