More pictures of the destruction that was SAND

Eye of the storm: New York was among the hardest hit by Superstorm Sandy. A fire broke out in Breezy Point, Queens, destroying between 80 and 100 houses

Fleet in the floods: Yellow cabs in a parking lot are surrounded by water after Superstorm Sandy struck Hoboken, New Jersey

Trashed: Cars float up from a car garage in a mixture of floodwater and gasoline in lower Manhattan as workers begin the process of pumping out the mess

Wrecked: A man looks at an uprooted tree which fell on a car when Superstorm Sandy swept through the Brooklyn borough of New York

Understatement: A Whole Foods store in New York informs its customers that it is closed 'due to inclement weather'

Two women shop for groceries by torchlight in the Tribeca neighbourhood of New York after power outages caused large parts of the city to fall into darkness

Broken home: A man and child look in disbelief at a collapsed house in the Cosey Beach neighborhood of East Haven, Connecticut

Damaged: A building that had its facade ripped off by Hurricane Sandy - beds and radiators can be seen in the block

Tearful: A woman cries as she and others look at homes devastated by Superstorm Sandy at the Breezy Point section of the Queens borough of New York

Lost in the fire: A woman stands among the still-smouldering remains of homes which burned down in the Breezy Point area of Queens in New York

Upsetting: Tom and Deidre Duffy look through the wreckage of their home at Breezy Point, in Queens, which was devastated by fire

Gone: Deidre Duffy studies all that is left of her home at Breezy Point, in the Queens borough of New York

Toy: A doll's head can be seen among the charred remains of a house destroyed by fire in the aftermath of the post-tropical storm

View from above: This aerial photograph shows burned-out homes in the Breezy Point section of the Queens borough of New York after the fire

Desolate: Residents walk past debris by the Con Edison 14 street and Avenue C power plant on the Lower East Side on Manhattan. An electrical explosion caused a shut down of power due to high winds and flood waters

Daily Mail UK

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