photo album sandy a storm to remember. before the storm: mantoloking bridge

Photo Album“Sandy”

A storm to remember

Before the storm: Mantoloking Bridge

After the storm: Mantoloking Bridge

Breezy Point section of Queens, New York, now littered with burned-out homes

Firemen continue to pour water on smouldering fires on Beach Blvd in Breezy Point, New York. More than 100 homes were destroyed by fire after Sandy passed directly though the area.

Fires ripped through around 130 homes on Breezy Point

A property in Rockaway, New York

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg views damage in the Breezy Point area of Queens.

A community north of Seaside, New Jersey lies covered in sand.

Brant Beach on Long Beach Island, New Jersey

Tuckerton, New Jersey

One day after and a portion of Harvey Cedars on Long Beach Island NJ remains underwater.

The south shore of Staten Island, New York

The south shore area of Staten Island was severely damaged by the strong winds and floods coming in from Atlantic

Long Beach

Fenwick Island, Delaware, sit surrounded by floodwaters.

Long Beach, New York

The South Ferry subway station in New York

A row of beachfront houses tilts backwards on the New Jersey coast.

The facade of this New York apartment building was knocked off by Sandy

Fallen power lines lie across a road in Atlantic City

The sun sets over the Robert Moses Causeway leading to Fire Island, New York.

A warehouse in Brooklyn, New York

South shore of Staten Island

Hudson Street in Hackensack, New Jersey

A boardwalk and Houses in Atlantic City, NJ

Taken from a helicopter it shows the devastation along Jersey Shore

Long Beach, New York

Cars floating after being pushed out a flooded basement in New York City

A 168-foot water tanker, the John B. Caddell, sits on the shore where it ran aground on Front Street in the Stapleton neighbourhood of New York's Staten Island

Yellow cabs in a parking lot are surrounded by water in Hoboken, NJ

Waves pound a lighthouse on the shores of Lake Erie, near Cleveland, Ohio

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

Breezy Point Queens , New York

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

A crane attached to One 57, a luxury apartment tower under construction in midtown Manhattan, hangs down after partially collapsing amid gusts from Sandy

Flooded subway station

The famous casinos of Atlantic City, New Jersey, were submerged after super storm Sandy hit land nearby

A car is covered by water near the Consolidated Edison power plant in New York, after Sandy knocked out power to at least 8million people, and large sections of the city were plunged into darkness.

Heavy waves smash over the seawall in Winthrop, with the 911 system inundated with 10,000 calls every half hour.