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House spared. >> tears still come to my eye every time i drive and look at those houses. >> reporter: famous for images like this. >> the ports gave way and it tilted the house toward the ocean. >> reporter: it's just too much. >> if we could have rehabbed it, absolutely we would have done it. it's too broken. >> reporter: this week they watched their home come down. >> it's being destroyed. e we couldn't save it it. >> reporter: of the 520 homes here, 56 of them washed away the night sandy struck. many, many more so damaged they are uninhabitable being torn down one after the next after the n...