Hurricane Sandy: By the Numbers

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  • The Destruction
  • Death Toll
  • Fire!
  • Storm Size
  • Damage Estimates
  • Evacuations
  • Hurricane Sandy No lights
  • Markets Reopen
  • Cancelled Flights
  • Subways Shut Down
  • Most Rainfall
  • How You Can Help
  • Destroyed Cars
  • Darkness
  • Hardest Hit
  • Flooded Cars
  • Precarious Crane
  • Sandy
  • No More Walls
  • Rising Waters
  • Eerie
  • Transformer Explodes
  • Stop!
  • Rescue Efforts
  • No Gas
  • Taking a Stroll
  • Boats
  • Weather Fit for Ducks
  • Damaged Home
  • HMS Bounty Lost

The Destruction

New York and the East Coast are still recovering from Hurricane Sandy, a superstorm that caused billions in damage, forced the closure of public transit systems and left milllions in the dark. Here's a snapshot of what happened in NYC and beyond and a look at the numbers behind the storm. - Deborah Creighton Skinner

A 13-foot surge of seawater - 3 feet above the previous record - gushed into lower Manhattan. In this image rising water, caused by Sandy, flooded an underground parking garage late Monday night. 

(Photo: Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

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