Each time hurricanes would hit in Florida when I lived there, it was always amazing to me that while some had lost their homes and all their belongings, others just received a windfall of new business as a result of the storm (clean-up, reconstruction, etc).
Although many people got hit pretty hard by Sandy, a friend sent me this link with 37 photos & videos of people in Sandy's path that made the most of the ocean conditions:
http://www.surfline.com/surf-news/tr...art-two_78053/