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Ocean City Beach Patrol, staggered by Sunday's storm, begins repair work

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Bill Dorney (left) and lifeguard Scott Pepe, lay out lumber for the building of new lifeguard stands. Sunday's thunderstorms produced high winds that caused damage to lifeguard stands and lifeboats along the beach in Ocean City, as well as damage to homes on Ocean Ave between 14th and 15th Streets. Monday July 25, 2011. (Dale Gerhard/Press of Atlantic City)

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Regina Purcell, right, and her children, Jimmy, 14, Aiden, 10, and daughter Mary, 12, of Freehold, were in the family summer home owned by her mother Hilda Conti, at 1408 Ocean Ave, when the storm caused severe damage to the house. Sunday's thunderstorms produced high winds that caused damage to lifeguard stands and lifeboats along the beach in Ocean City, as well as damage to homes on Ocean Ave between 14th and 15th Streets. Monday July 25, 2011.

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Regina Purcell (right) and her family from Freehold, were in the family summer home owned by her mother Hilda Conti, at 1408 Ocean Ave with the storm caused severe damage to the house. Sunday's thunderstorms produced high winds that caused damage to lifeguard stands and lifeboats along the beach in Ocean City, as well as damage to homes on Ocean Ave between 14th and 15th Streets. Monday July 25, 2011.

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Ocean City senior lifeguard Scott Pepe, examines one of the 13 lifeboats damaged in the storm. Tihis bost had the seat torn out. Sunday's thunderstorms produced high winds that caused damage to lifeguard stands and lifeboats along the beach in Ocean City, as well as damage to homes on Ocean Ave between 14th and 15th Streets. Monday July 25, 2011. (Dale Gerhard/Press of Atlantic City)

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Tom Mullineaux, chief of operations for the Ocean City Beach Patrol, explains how much damage occurred during the storm.. Sunday's thunderstorms produced high winds that caused damage to lifeguard stands and lifeboats along the beach in Ocean City, as well as damage to homes on Ocean Ave between 14th and 15th Streets. Monday July 25, 2011. (Dale Gerhard/Press of Atlantic City)

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Mary Purcell 12, and her brother Aiden, talk about the storm that damage their grandmother's house. Sunday's thunderstorms produced high winds that caused damage to lifeguard stands and lifeboats along the beach in Ocean City, as well as damage to homes on Ocean Ave between 14th and 15th Streets. Monday July 25, 2011. (Dale Gerhard/Press of Atlantic City)

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Storm damage to homes on the 1400 block of Ocean Ave in Ocean City. Sunday's thunderstorms produced high winds that caused damage to lifeguard stands and lifeboats along the beach in Ocean City, as well as damage to homes on Ocean Ave between 14th and 15th Streets. Monday July 25, 2011. (Dale Gerhard/Press of Atlantic City)

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Destroyed lifeguard stands lay behind the public works building at 46th Street. Sunday's thunderstorms produced high winds that caused damage to lifeguard stands and lifeboats along the beach in Ocean City, as well as damage to homes on Ocean Ave between 14th and 15th Streets. Monday July 25, 2011. (Dale Gerhard/Press of Atlantic City)

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Ocean City lifeguards Kyle Evangelist (left) and Eddie Zipf, had to use beach chairs to sit in while guarding the beach at 53rd Street. Sunday's thunderstorms produced high winds that caused damage to lifeguard stands and lifeboats along the beach in Ocean City, as well as damage to homes on Ocean Ave between 14th and 15th Streets. Monday July 25, 2011. (Dale Gerhard/Press of Atlantic City)

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