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The superstorm hit the US east coast yesterday, leaving much damage in its wake.

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SUPERSTORM SANDY HIT the US East Coast yesterday, battering New York and slamming into the New Jersey coastline, causing major damage and flooding in the process.

Photos captured by people living in areas that Sandy hit, as well as official photographers who braved the conditions to document them for news outlets, show the full extent of the damage caused by the storm, which had been downgraded from hurricane status.

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(Port Authority NY & NJ on Twitter)

Today, schools, businesses and even the New York Stock Exchange remain closed as Sandy continues to pass over parts of the country. Hurricane Sandy hit the Caribbean last week, leaving 38 people dead in its wake.



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  • Superstorm Sandy

    Cars pass through a darkened neighborhood on the west side of Manhattan on Monday in New York. Much of New York was plunged into darkness Monday by a superstorm that overflowed the city's historic waterfront, flooded the financial district and subway tunnels and cut power to hundreds of thousands of people. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan)

  • Superstorm Sandy

    The New York skyline remains dark on Monday, as seen from the Williamsburg neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York. In an attempt to lessen damage from saltwater to the subway system and the electrical network beneath the city's financial district, New York City's main utility cut power to about 6,500 customers in lower Manhattan. But a far wider swath of the city was hit with blackouts caused by flooding and transformer explosions. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

  • Hurricane Sandy

    A member of the public's photograph taken with a camera phone of the East River on the Manhattan side in New York, USA as Hurricane Sandy bore down on the US East Coast, threatening to bring an 11ft (3.4-metre) storm surge to the city. (Andrea Levine/PA Wire)

  • Superstorm Sandy NYC

    A fallen tree branch sits on a car blocking East 74th St. between Lexington Avenue and Third Avenue on Manhattan's Upper West Side on Monday. Sandy made landfall Monday night, hurling a surge of seawater on New York City with wind and rain that sent water sloshing into Manhattan from three sides but began dying down within hours. (AP Photo/Willie Regan)

  • Superstorm Sandy

    Vehicles are submerged on 14th Street near the Consolidated Edison power plant on Monday in New York. Sandy continued on its path yesterday, 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. (AP Photo/ John Minchillo)

  • Superstorm Sandy

    Sea water floods the Ground Zero construction site on Monday in New York. 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. (AP Photo/ John Minchillo)

  • Superstorm Sandy

    Sea water floods the entrance to the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel on Monday, in New York. 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. (AP Photo/ John Minchillo)

  • Superstorm Sandy

    A car is submerged in the Dumbo section of the Brooklyn borough of New York, as the East River overflows during hurricane Sandy, on Monday. Authorities warned that New York City and Long Island could get the worst of the storm surge: an 11-foot onslaught of seawater that could swamp lower areas of the city. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

  • Superstorm Sandy

    A pedestrian runs through floodwaters in the Dumbo section of the Brooklyn borough of New York, as superstorm Sandy moves through the area, yesterday. Sandy zeroed in on New York's waterfront with fierce rain and winds that shuttered most of the nation's largest city on Monday, darkened the financial district and left a huge crane hanging off a luxury high-rise. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

  • Superstorm Sandy

    This photo taken last night shows what appear to be transformers exploding after much of lower Manhattan lost power during hurricane Sandy in New York. Much of New York was plunged into darkness Monday by a superstorm that overflowed the city's historic waterfront, flooded the financial district and subway tunnels and cut power to nearly a million people. (AP Photo/Karly Domb Sadof)

  • Superstorm Sandy

    Medical workers assist a patient into an ambulance during an evacuation of New York University Tisch Hospital, after its backup generator failed when the power was knocked out by a superstorm on Monday, in New York. Dozens of ambulances lined up outside NYU Tisch Hospital on Monday night as doctors and nurses began the slow process of taking people out. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

  • Superstorm Sandy

    A lone pedestrian looks up towards an electronic message about superstorm Sandy in New York's Times Square, early today. For New York City, Sandy was not the days-long onslaught many had feared, and the wind and rain that sent water sloshing into Manhattan from three sides began dying down within hours. Still, the power was out for hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers and an estimated 6.2 million people altogether across the East. (AP Photo/CX Matiash)

  • Sandy

    Superstorm Sandy hits the Hoboken PATH station (Pic: PANYNJ/Twitter)
  • Cars pass through a darkened neighborhood on the west side of Manhattan on Monday in New York. Much of New York was plunged into darkness Monday by a superstorm that overflowed the city's historic waterfront, flooded the financial district and subway tunnels and cut power to hundreds of thousands of people. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan)
  • The New York skyline remains dark on Monday, as seen from the Williamsburg neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York. In an attempt to lessen damage from saltwater to the subway system and the electrical network beneath the city's financial district, New York City's main utility cut power to about 6,500 customers in lower Manhattan. But a far wider swath of the city was hit with blackouts caused by flooding and transformer explosions. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
  • A member of the public's photograph taken with a camera phone of the East River on the Manhattan side in New York, USA as Hurricane Sandy bore down on the US East Coast, threatening to bring an 11ft (3.4-metre) storm surge to the city. (Andrea Levine/PA Wire)
  • A fallen tree branch sits on a car blocking East 74th St. between Lexington Avenue and Third Avenue on Manhattan's Upper West Side on Monday. Sandy made landfall Monday night, hurling a surge of seawater on New York City with wind and rain that sent water sloshing into Manhattan from three sides but began dying down within hours. (AP Photo/Willie Regan)
  • Vehicles are submerged on 14th Street near the Consolidated Edison power plant on Monday in New York. Sandy continued on its path yesterday, 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. (AP Photo/ John Minchillo)
  • Sea water floods the Ground Zero construction site on Monday in New York. 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. (AP Photo/ John Minchillo)
  • Sea water floods the entrance to the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel on Monday, in New York. 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. (AP Photo/ John Minchillo)
  • A car is submerged in the Dumbo section of the Brooklyn borough of New York, as the East River overflows during hurricane Sandy, on Monday. Authorities warned that New York City and Long Island could get the worst of the storm surge: an 11-foot onslaught of seawater that could swamp lower areas of the city. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
  • A pedestrian runs through floodwaters in the Dumbo section of the Brooklyn borough of New York, as superstorm Sandy moves through the area, yesterday. Sandy zeroed in on New York's waterfront with fierce rain and winds that shuttered most of the nation's largest city on Monday, darkened the financial district and left a huge crane hanging off a luxury high-rise. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
  • This photo taken last night shows what appear to be transformers exploding after much of lower Manhattan lost power during hurricane Sandy in New York. Much of New York was plunged into darkness Monday by a superstorm that overflowed the city's historic waterfront, flooded the financial district and subway tunnels and cut power to nearly a million people. (AP Photo/Karly Domb Sadof)
  • Medical workers assist a patient into an ambulance during an evacuation of New York University Tisch Hospital, after its backup generator failed when the power was knocked out by a superstorm on Monday, in New York. Dozens of ambulances lined up outside NYU Tisch Hospital on Monday night as doctors and nurses began the slow process of taking people out. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
  • A lone pedestrian looks up towards an electronic message about superstorm Sandy in New York's Times Square, early today. For New York City, Sandy was not the days-long onslaught many had feared, and the wind and rain that sent water sloshing into Manhattan from three sides began dying down within hours. Still, the power was out for hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers and an estimated 6.2 million people altogether across the East. (AP Photo/CX Matiash)
  • Superstorm Sandy hits the Hoboken PATH station (Pic: PANYNJ/Twitter)

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