Governors, mayors and millions of Americans on the East Coast braced for a “superstorm” of unprecedented strength — and it delivered.
Sweeping from Manhattan to Milwaukee, the storm system that began as Hurricane Sandy had killed at least 40 people by late Tuesday, many of them victims of falling trees, after marching from the Caribbean to its landfall along the New Jersey coastline. While New York City was left dumbstruck by record storm surges in Battery Park, officials in less-affected states gave thanks after the tempest cut its swath from the Carolinas to Maine.
The full extent of the damage to the Garden State, where the storm roared ashore Monday night with hurricane force, was unclear, but some projections put the cost upward of $50 billion in property damage and lost business across a third of the country.
Editors Note: There are several pictures on the above link that are worth seeing.
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