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Published November 01, 2012, 12:00 AM

Photo gallery: Images of the East Coast megastorm and its aftermath


Waves crash into the Ocean City Fishing Pier as Hurricane Sandy bears down on the East Coast, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012, in Ocean City, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

  • Waves crash into the Ocean City Fishing Pier as Hurricane Sandy bears down on the East Coast, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012, in Ocean City, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
  • Ocean water rolls over State Highway 12 in Buxton, N.C., on Hatteras Island at dawn on Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012, as Hurricane Sandy works its way north, battering the U.S. East Coast. (AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, Steve Earley)
  • Jay Smith, Bay View Beach resident since 1968, decided to board up his home and try to ride out the superstorm even as residents of Bay View Beach, Del., received a mandatory evacuation notice with the approach of Hurricane Sandy, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/The News Journal, Suchat Pederson)
  • Vanessa Pumo walks her dog, Bella, as wind and rain from Hurricane Sandy arrive Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, in Brooklyn, N.Y. Behind her is the Manhattan skyline and Brooklyn Bridge. (Mark Lennihan / Associated Press)
  • Lower Manhattan goes dark during superstorm Sandy on Monday, as seen from the Brooklyn Heights promenade in the Brooklyn borough of New York. One World Trade Center (center) remains brightly lit. Sandy continued on its path Monday, as the storm forced the shutdown of mass transit, schools and financial markets, sending coastal residents fleeing, and threatening a dangerous mix of high winds and soaking rain. (Bebeto Matthews / Associated Press)
  • This photo provided by 6abc Action News shows the Inlet section of Atlantic City, N.J., as Hurricane Sandy makes it approach Monday. Sandy made landfall at 8 p.m. near Atlantic City, which was already mostly under water and saw a piece of its world-famous Boardwalk washed away earlier in the day. (Dann Cuellar / 6abc Action News / Associated Press)
  • The HMS Bounty, a 180-foot sailboat, is submerged in the Atlantic Ocean during Hurricane Sandy approximately 90 miles southeast of Hatteras, N.C., on Monday, Oct. 29, 2012. (Petty Officer 2nd Class Tim Kuklewski / U.S. Coast Guard, Associated Press)<br /><br />
  • Snow plows move through the mountains of West Virginia on Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, in Randolph County, W.Va. (Robert Ray / Associated Press)
  • Strong waves crash against the Lake Michigan waterfront at the 31st Street Beach on the south side of Chicago on Tuesday. Strong winds from the outer edge of superstorm Sandy are creating near-record high waves on Lake Michigan. (Charles Rex Arbogast / Associated Press)
  • Residents walk through flood water and past a stalled ambulance in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, in Hoboken, N.J. (Charles Sykes / Associated Press)
  • A woman walks past the remains of buildings left demolished by superstorm Sandy on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, in Atlantic City, N.J. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
  • Joseph Leader, Metropolitan Tranportation Authority vice president and chief maintenance officer, shines a flashlight on standing water inside the South Ferry 1 train station in New York on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, in the wake of superstorm Sandy. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
  • Early morning traffic in Brooklyn moves slowly beneath the Manhattan skyline, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012 in New York, in the wake of superstorm Sandy. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
  • A firefighter on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, leaves the destroyed home in Pasadena, Md., where Donald Cannata Sr. was killed when a tree fell on it during superstorm Sandy. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
  • This combo image shows aerial views of Mantoloking, N.J., before and after superstorm Sandy devastated the area. TOP: This aerial satellite image made on Sept. 20, 2010, from Google Earth, shows Mantoloking, N.J. BOTTOM: This aerial photo taken from a helicopter shows storm damage from Sandy along the Atlantic Coast in Mantoloking, N.J., Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012. (AP Photos/Google Earth, Doug Mills, Pool)
  • A lone parked car is draped with snow-covered branches south of Morgantown, W.Va., on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, from a snowfall on Tuesday. West Virginia's death toll climbed to at least six and hundreds of thousands remained without power Wednesday from the wet, heavy snow that superstorm Sandy dumped on the mountains, snapping trees, pulling down power lines and collapsing homes. (AP Photo/The Dominion-Post, Ron Rittenhouse)
  • This aerial photo shows the damage to an amusement park left in the wake of superstorm Sandy on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, in Seaside Heights, N.J. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
  • Lisa Kravchenko of Staten Island, stands amid storm debris in her princess Halloween costume, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, in the Staten Island borough of New York. (AP Photo/ John Minchillo)
  • Men dispose of shopping carts full of food damaged by the flood waters of Hurricane Sandy at the Fairway supermarket in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn in New York on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012. The food was contaminated by flood waters that rose to approximately four feet in the store during the storm. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
  • Alana Colabella (right) pulls belongings from a closet as volunteer Kelli Black (left) adjusts her gloves while helping the Colabella family clean up the first floor of their home in Brick, N.J. on Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012 which was flooded in the wake of superstorm Sandy. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
  • People line up to fill gas containers at the New Jersey Turnpike's Thomas A. Edison service area Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, near Woodbridge, N.J., in the wake of superstorm Sandy. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
  • A boat washed inland by superstorm Sandy sits on a road in Ship Bottom on Long Beach Island, N.J. on Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Robert Ray)
  • Sand washed inland by superstorm Sandy is piled on the streets of Spray Beach, N.J., on Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Robert Ray)
  • A 168-foot water tanker, the John B. Caddell, sits on the shore Tuesday morning, Oct. 30, 2012 where it ran aground on Front Street in the Stapleton neighborhood of New York's Staten Island as a result of superstorm Sandy. (AP Photo/Sean Sweeney)