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East Coast Storm Worst Seen
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(AP) — Millions of people from
Maine to the Carolinas waited wea
rily for the power to come back on
Tuesday, and New Yorkers found
themselves all but cut off from the
modem world as the death toll from
Hurricane Sandy climbed to 40,
many of the victims killed by falling
trees.
The extent of the damage in New
Jersey, where the storm roared
ashore Monday night with hurri
cane-force winds of 80 mph, began
coming into focus: homes knocked
off their foundations, boardwalks
wrecked and amusement pier rides
cast into the sea.
"We are in the midst of urban
search and rescue. Our teams are
moving as fast as they can," Gov.
Chris Christie said. "The devasta
tion on the Jersey Shore is some of
A construction crane that col
lapsed in the high winds on Mon
day still dangled precariously 74
floors above the streets of midtown
Manhattan, and hundreds of people
were evacuated as a precaution. And
on Staten Island, a tanker ship
wound up beached on the shore.
Some bridges into New York re
opened, but some tunnels were
closed, as were schools. Broadway
theaters and the metropolitan area's
three main airports, LaGuardia,
Kennedy and Newark.
With water standing in two major
commuter tunnels and seven sub
way tunnels under the East River,
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said it
was unclear when the nation's larg
est transit system would be rolling
again. It shut down Sunday night
ahead of the storm.
Joseph Lhota, chairman of the
Metropolitan Transportation Au
thority, said the damage was the
worst in the 108-year history of the
New York subway.
Cars were scattered like leaves when floodwaters hit a Coney Island neighborhood in Brooklyn, N. Y.
The damage followed a direct hit by Hurricane Sandy Monday night on the East Coast.
to turn a political rally in Ohio into a were injured.
About 20 babies from the neonatal
storm relief event.
New York University's Tisch intensive care unit were carried down
Sandy will end up causing about Hospital evacuated 200 patients staircases and were given battery-
$20 billion in property damage and after its backup generator failed, powered respirators.
$ 10 billion to $30 billion more in lost
business, making it one of the cost
liest natural disasters on record in
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Foundations and pilings are all that remain o f brick buildings and
a boardwalk in Atlantic City, N.J., after they were destroyed when
a powerful storm that started out as Hurricane Sandy made
landfall on the East Coast on Monday night.
the worst we've ever seen. The cost
of the storm is incalculable at this
point."
As the storm steamed inland, still
delivering punishing wind and rain,
more than 8.2 million people across
the East were without power. Air
lines canceled more than 15,000
flights around the world, and it could
be days before the mess is untangled
and passengers can get where
they're going.
The storm also disrupted the
presidential campaign with just a
week to go before Election Day.
President Barack Obama can
celed a third straight day of cam
paigning, scratching events sched
uled for Wednesday in swing state
Ohio. Republican Mitt Romney re
sumed his campaign, but with plans
the U.S., according to IHS Global
Insight, a forecasting firm.
Lower M anhattan, which in
cludes Wall Street, was among the
hardest-hit areas after the storm sent
a nearly 14-foot surge of seawater,
a record, coursing over its seawalls
and highways.
Water cascaded into the gaping,
unfinished construction pit at the
World Trade Center, and the New
York Stock Exchange was closed for
a second day, the first time that has
happened because of weather since
the Blizzard of 1888. The NYSE said
it will reopen on Wednesday.
A huge fire destroyed as many as
100 houses in a flooded beachfront
neighborhood in Queens on Tues
day, forcing firefighters to under
take daring rescues. Three people
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