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| A truck drives through water pushed over a road by Hurricane Sandy in Southampton, New York, on October 29, 2012. Hurricane Sandy, the monster storm bearing down on the East Coast, strengthened on Monday after hundreds of thousands moved to higher ground, public transport shut down and the stock market suffered its first weather-related closure in 27 years. |
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| A driver maneuvers his car along a wet road as a wave crashes against the Malecon in Havana, Cuba, on October 25, 2012. Hurricane Sandy blasted across eastern Cuba on Thursday as a potent Category 2 storm and headed for the Bahamas. |
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| Haitian men walk cross a bridge over rushing flood waters caused by Hurricane Sandy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on October 25, 2012. |
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| People walk on a street littered with debris after Hurricane Sandy hit Santiago de Cuba, on October 26, 2012. The Cuban government said on Thursday night that 11 people died when the storm barreled across the island, most killed by falling trees or in building collapses in Santiago de Cuba province and neighboring Guantanamo province. |
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| Protective berms line Compo Beach, as the first signs of Hurricane Sandy approach on October 28, 2012, in Westport, Connecticut. |
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| During preparations for Hurricane Sandy, a woman and child walk through an emptied aisle in a Wal-Mart store in Riverhead, New York, on October 28, 2012. |
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| A man runs for the last train to leave New York's Grand Central Terminal on October 28, 2012. |
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| A news crew wades through sea foam blown onto Jeanette's Pier in Nags Head, North Carolina, on October 28, 2012 as wind and rain from Hurricane Sandy moved into the area. |
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| An abandoned home, inundated with water at Shinnecock Bay in Southampton, New York, on October 29, 2012. |
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| Hurricane Sandy, pictured at (10:40 a.m. Eastern) on October 29, 2012 by NASA's GOES satellite, churns off the east coast in the Atlantic Ocean. |
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| A sailboat smashes on the rocks after breaking free from its mooring on City Island, on October 29, 2012 in New York. |
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| Ocean waves kick up near homes along Peggoty Beach in Scituate, Massachusetts, on October 29, 2012. |
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| People pose outside the sandbagged entrance of the closed Apple Store on Fifth Avenue as Hurricane Sandy moves closer to the area on October 29, 2012 in New York City. |
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| U.S. Route 30, the White Horse Pike, one of three major approaches to Atlantic City, New Jersey, covered with water from Absecon Bay in this view looking west, during the approach of Hurricane Sandy, on October 29, 2012. |
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| People walk on the boardwalk in Ocean City, Maryland, on October 29, 2012. |
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| Waves crash over Winthrop Shore Drive as Hurricane Sandy comes up the coast on October 29, 2012 in Winthrop, Massachusetts. |
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| Part of a crane boom is seen hanging off a building under construction on West 57th Street above Manhattan, on October 29, 2012. |
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| A historic ferry boat named the Binghamton, swamped by the waves on the Hudson River in Edgewater, New Jersey, on October 29, 2012 as Hurricane Sandy lashed the East Coast. |
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| Firefighters respond at the scene where the facade of a four-story building on 14th Street and 8th Avenue collapsed onto the sidewalk in New York, on October 29, 2012. |
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| Caleb Lavoie, 17, of Dayton, Maine, front, and Curtis Huard, 16, of Arundel, Maine, leap out of the way as a large wave crashes over a seawall on the Atlantic Ocean during the early stages of Hurricane Sandy in Kennebunk, Maine, on October 29, 2012. |
Source : TheAtlantic.com
