August 30th, 2011 - 1:54 pm

Reasons to feel lucky

While The Sun reported today that more than 285,000 BGE customers are still without power because of Hurricane Irene, a lot of us locals should feel lucky that the storm damage wasn't worse. Though many of us are back to work and "moving on," there are countless people up and down the Eastern seaboard that can't say the same.

BuzzFeed published 25 scary and heart-breaking photos of hurricane damage (including this shot of Ocean City, pictured). Even though losing power for days and dealing with damage from fallen trees is certainly difficult, these photos sure put things into perspective. Most of us Baltimoreans got lucky.

[Image: courtesy of BuzzFeed.com]