Washington (AFP) - The State Department released a new tranche of about 5,000 emails sent or received by Hillary Clinton when she served as top US diplomat and controversially used a private email server.The equivalent of 7,800 pages of messages, mostly from 2012 and 2013, were checked for classified information and then made public on a department website: foia.state.gov/Search/Results.aspx?collection=Clinton_Email.Among the emails was apparent acknowledgement from Clinton, perhaps the world's most important diplomat at the time, that her email and Blackberry device were down for two weeks following Hurricane Sandy, which slammed the northeast coast in October 2012."Between losing my internet/berry service for two weeks during Sandy and jet lagging around the world, I'm not sure what I never received but am trying to crawl out from under the ones that are piled up in my in box," Clinton wrote longtime friend Betsy Ebeling on November 14, 2012 during a trip to Australia.The exact location of Clinton's server has been a mystery, but Clinton's main residence is in Chappaqua, New York.