Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Hurricane Sandy : death toll hits 50 and damage tops $20 billion

The lights on the Brooklyn Bridge stood in contrast to the darkened lower Manhattan skyline, which lost its electrical supply. 

devastation along Jersey Shore

Yellow cabs in a parking lot are surrounded by water after Superstorm Sandy struck Hoboken, New Jersey

Cars float up from a car garage in a mixture of floodwater and gasoline in lower Manhattan as workers begin the process of pumping out the mess

A firefighter leaves a destroyed home in Pasadena, Maryland, where the homeowner was killed overnight when a tree fell on his home during superstorm Sandy

This home in Manalapan, Florida, was ripped up and ravaged by Sandy when the storm passed through

Picture from Washington DC shows how the wind has grabbed hold of trees and ripped them out by the trunk

A building that had its facade ripped off by Hurricane Sandy - beds and radiators can be seen in the block

The lobby of Verizon's Corporate headquarters in Manhattan. The headquarter houses executive offices as well as some of the company's key telecom equipment that supports services to New York's financial district

A boat moved by gushing waters rests on the tracks at Metro-North's Ossining Station on the Hudson Line

This aerial photograph shows burned-out homes in the Breezy Point section of the Queens borough of New York after the fire

An aerial view of flooding on the bay side of Seaside, New Jersey

Residents look over the remains of burned homes in the Rockaways section

More than 50 homes have been destroyed at Breezy Point in the Queens area of New York, as a result of Hurricane Sandy

A beach house is left destroyed in the Bell Harbor community after Superstorm Sandy inundated the Rockaway Peninsular in Queens, New York




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