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
Battle: More than 190 firefighters have
contained the six-alarm blaze fire in the Breezy Point section, but they
are still putting out some pockets of fire
Washed up: A resident pushes a bicycle down a
street covered in beach sand due to flooding from Superstorm Sandy in
Long Beach, New York
Destruction: Cars floating after being pushed out a flooded basement in the city during last night's battering
Beached: A 168-foot water tanker, the John B.
Caddell, sits on the shore where it ran aground on Front Street in the
Stapleton neighborhood of New York's Staten Island
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
Uprooted: A fallen tree at Cooper Square in the East Village, New York, after Superstorm Sandy battered the city
Something in the way: A fallen tree blocks a street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in the wake of Hurricane Sandy
Timber: Superstorm Sandy caused a fallen tree to crash down near park benches in Manhattan's Upper West Side
Torrent: Cars on Avenue C and 7th Street are
submerged in floodwater which flowed through the city after Superstorm
Sandy arrived
Left behind: An umbrella lies abandoned in the dirt on a Manhattan street hours after Superstorm Sandy swept through New York
Overblown: A lighting shop in New York is closed
after the storm. Strong winds brought down part of a banner which had
advertised the business's 'blow-out sale'
Understatement: A Whole Foods store in New York informs its customers that it is closed 'due to inclement weather'
Mopping up: Shop owner Amanda Zink begins the
arduous task of cleaning her store The Salty Paw, which was completely
flooded on the waterfront of lower Manhattan
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
Dangerous: A cordon is put up around scaffolding
which collapsed in New York after Superstorm Sandy caused widespread
damage in the city
Barrier: Water and debris block a section of South Street in lower Manhattan, in New York, which had been in the storm's path
Struggle: A Port Authority Police vehicle makes
its way through floodwater covering roads leading toward Teterboro
Airport in New Jersey
Speaking from the headquarters of the Red Cross in Washington DC, Obama said that Sandy ‘is not yet over’.
Warning there were still risks of flooding and downed power lines, he described the storm as ‘heartbreaking for the nation’ and, offering his thoughts and prayers to the victims, he added: ‘America is with you.’
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg says it could be three days or more before power is restored to hundreds of thousands of people now in the dark.
He is giving no estimate on when public transit would be running, though he expects some buses be running later today.
He said there have nor been any storm-related fatalities in NYC hospitals.
The storm was once Hurricane Sandy but combined with two wintry systems to become a huge hybrid storm whose center smashed ashore late Monday in New Jersey. New York City was perfectly positioned to absorb the worst of its storm surge - a record 13 feet.
A man and a woman were crushed by a falling tree. An off-duty officer on Staten Island who ushered his relatives to the attic of his home apparently became trapped in the basement.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said 156 rescue missions were made by state and city police.
'It's fair to say that the state police and NYPD and the National Guard saved hundreds of lives yesterday,' he said.
Emergency: President Barack Obama has declared a
'major disaster' in New York and Long Island. Pictured, he receives an
update on the ongoing response to Hurricane Sandy, in the Situation Room
of the White House, via teleconference
Scenes from New Jersey: Rescue workers use a
dinghy to patrol a flooded street in Hoboken (left) and a utility pole
(right), carrying 230,000 volts to Atlantic City, is held in place by a
truck crane after it snapped from the high winds
Broken home: A man and child look in disbelief at a collapsed house in the Cosey Beach neighborhood of East Haven, Connecticut
Aftermath: A rainbow and looming clouds appear over the sky in New York's Manhattan after the hurricane stormed the city
Transport down: A view of an entirely flooded
tunnel under Battery Park. New York was among the hardest hit, with its
financial heart in Lower Manhattan shuttered for a second day and
seawater cascading into the still-gaping construction pit at the World
Trade Center
Damaged: A building that had its facade ripped off by Hurricane Sandy - beds and radiators can be seen in the block
Wrecked: A construction site sinks into a large
hole on South Street Seaport - the clean-up operation is expected to
cost over £12 billion
City of water: A flooded street in the Dumbo
section of Brooklyn after the city awakens to the affects of Hurricane
Sandy. It hit the mainland at 6.30pm local time last night having laid
waste to large parts of the coast throughout the day
Road blocked: Pieces of lumber displaced from a
yard by rising flood waters are seen beneath Manhattan Bridge in the
aftermath of Hurricane Sandy
Deluge: Water floods over the barriers in New
York. The city's transit system, schools, the stock exchange and
Broadway were also shut after a 13ft wall of water caused by the storm
surge and high tides brought severe flooding to subways and road tunnels
Transformation: A subway station now resembles a river in one of the US's largest cities
Power storm: The full force of the storm is evident by the way a metal shutter has been ripped from the wall
Submerged: The lobby of Verizon's Corporate
headquarters in Manhattan. The headquarter houses executive offices as
well as some of the company's key telecom equipment that supports
services to New York's financial district
Operation clean-up: Debris litters a flooded
street in the Dumbo section of Brooklyn after the city awakens to the
affects of Hurricane Sandy
Mission: A man clears leaves from a sewer drain in lower Manhattan to help the flooding ease
The city's transit system suffered unprecedented damage, from the underground subway tunnels to commuter rails to bus garages, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said Tuesday.
'We have no idea how long it's going to take,' spokeswoman Marjorie Anders said.
Today the New York governor told citizens facing power outages that it could last for several days: 'Eat the most perishable items first: leftovers, meat, poultry & foods containing milk, cream, sour cream, or soft cheese.'
All 10 subway tunnels between Manhattan and Brooklyn were flooded during the storm, as the saltwater surge inundated signals, switches and third rails and covered tracks with sludge, she said.
The entire system wasn't flooded and the authority was already pumping water.
Workers ultimately will have to walk all the hundreds of miles of track to inspect it, she said, and it wasn't clear how long that would take. Trains had been moved to safety before the storm.
Rubble: People in Atlantic City view the area where a 2000-foot section of the 'uptown' boardwalk was destroyed by flooding
Sand and debris cover a part of town near the ocean in New Jersey after serious flooding ravaged the coastline
Chaos: A boat moved by gushing waters rests on the tracks at Metro-North's Ossining Station on the Hudson Line
Pedestrians skirt around flooded areas on the Lower East Side of Manhattan as they try to get back to normal
Pictures taken of the destruction caused by Hurricane Sandy on the Lower East side in New York
Sweep up: Workers clean up sheets of blown-out
glass in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy - many store faces took a
beating from the strong winds
Left: A map showing track of Hurricane Sandy
through New England, with inset showing projected rainfall totals
through Wednesday night and right. mid-Atlantic states showing storm
surge from the superstorm storm
Challenge: Firefighters tackle a blaze in the
Breezy Point section of the Queens borough of New York, in which more
than 80 homes were destroyed
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
Destroyed: Residents look over the remains of burned homes in the Rockaways section of New York
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
'Clearly the challenges our city faces in the coming days are enormous,' he said.
Water lapped over the seawall in Battery Park City, flooding rail yards, subway tracks, tunnels and roads.
Rescue workers floated bright orange rafts down flooded downtown streets, while police officers rolled slowly down the street with loudspeakers telling people to go home.
'This will be one for the record books,' said John Miksad, senior vice president for electric operations at Consolidated Edison, which had more than 670,000 customers without power in and around New York City.
An unprecedented 13-foot surge of seawater - 3 feet above the previous record - gushed into Gotham, inundating tunnels, subway stations and the electrical system that powers Wall Street, and sent hospital patients and tourists scrambling for safety.
Time to heal: City of Elmira N.Y., electrician, Nate Battle fixes a traffic light that was downed from high winds
Search: Aviators of the 1-150th Assault
Helicopter Battalion, New Jersey National Guard, look for displaced
residents along the coastline of Seaside Heights today
Water, water everywhere: An aerial view of flooding on the bay side of Seaside, New Jersey
Livelihood damaged: A man cleans up the remains of his food store damaged by Hurricane Sandy, in New York's South Street Seaport
Helping hand: Jolito Ortiz, left, helps sweep water out of his friend's apartment while cleaning up after flooding
Surveying: Rod Zindani surveys the damage to his Best Of New York Food Deli
Flooded areas: Highlighted areas show flooding
in New York. An unprecedented 13-foot surge of seawater - 3 feet above
the previous record - gushed into Gotham
Plan of action: Workers survey the damage from a fallen tree in lower Manhattan this morning
Debris: A dead deer, right, is pictured with
driftwood and debris left by a combination of storm surge as a man holds
a battered road sign
Ripped from the ground: People pass a fallen tree in the Battery Park neighborhood of Manhattan
Hope springs: An unidentified couple collect
ginkgo fruit knocked from trees by the ferocious winds, as a stunning
rainbow appears like an arcing message of hope over the flooded
devastation of New York left in the wake of the devastating storm
Strewn across street: Debris outside flats belonging to actress Anne Hathaway and reality star Olivia Palermo's building
Precarious: A crane attached to One57, a luxury
apartment tower under construction in midtown Manhattan, hangs down
after partially collapsing amid gusts from Sandy
Devastation: A fallen tree and power line ripped from the ground outside homes on Harvard Street in Garden City, New York
Curiosity turned to concern overnight
as New York City residents watched whole neighborhoods disappear into
darkness as power was cut. The World Trade Center site was a glowing ghost near the tip of Lower Manhattan.
Residents reported seeing no lights but the strobes of emergency vehicles and the glimpses of flashlights in nearby apartments. Lobbies were flooded, cars floated and people started to worry about food.
A huge fire destroyed 80 to 100 houses in a flooded beachfront neighborhood, forcing firefighters to undertake daring rescues and injuring three people.
More than 190 firefighters contained the blaze but were still putting out some pockets of fire more than nine hours after it erupted.
Shock: Residents look over the remains of burned homes in the Rockaways section
Officials said the fire was reported around 11 p.m. Monday in an area flooded by the superstorm that began sweeping through the city earlier.
Firefighters told WABC-TV that the water was chest high on the street, and they had to use a boat to make rescues.
They said in one apartment home, about 25 people were trapped in an upstairs unit, and the two-story home next door was ablaze and setting fire to the apartment's roof.
Firefighters climbed an awning to get to the trapped people and took them downstairs to a boat in the street.
Rescued: Hospital workers evacuate a patient Deborah Dadlani from NYU Langone Medical Center during Hurricane Sandy
ighting the way: Using torches Deborah Dadlani is moved in the dark from NYU Langone Medical Center
Treatment: A patient is wheeled to an ambulance in the rain during an evacuation of New York University Tisch Medical today
No train service: Veronica De Souza posted
this extraordinary picture ('via ninjapito') on Twitter of the 86th
Street station with water above the platform
Extraordinary: This CCTV photo shows flood
waters from Hurricane Sandy rushing in to the Hoboken PATH train station
through an elevator shaft in New Jersey
Aid at hand: An emergency operations centre in
Fairfax County, Virginia, co-ordinates the mammoth response to the
severe flooding caused by Sandy
Many homes appeared completely flattened by the wind-whipped flames. One firefighter suffered a minor injury and was taken to a hospital.
Two civilians suffered minor injuries and were treated at the scene.
In September, the same neighborhood was struck by a tornado that hurled debris in the air, knocked out power and startled residents who once thought of twisters as a Midwestern phenomenon.
Skyscrapers swayed and creaked in winds that partially toppled a crane 74 stories above Midtown.
Right before dawn, a handful of taxis were out on the streets, though there was an abundance of emergency and police vehicles.
Time to act: President Obama has declared a
'major disaster' in New York and Long Island as swathes of the city woke
up under water after a night of being battered by Superstorm Sandy
A tale of two cities: Lower Manhattan in
darkness after Sandy struck damaging power and previously New York
city's famous lit-up skyline
Looking down: These shocking views taken from
high-rise buildings in Manhattan show the extent of flooding in New York
City after it was hit by Superstorm Sandy
No go area: An uprooted tree blocks 7th
street near Avenue D in the East Village as a result of high winds from
Sandy on Monday in Manhattan, New York
The massive storm reached well into
the Midwest: Chicago officials warned residents to stay away from the
Lake Michigan shore as the city prepares for winds of up to 60 mph and
waves exceeding 24 feet well into Wednesday.Remnants of the former Category 1 hurricane were forecast to head across Pennsylvania before taking another sharp turn into western New York by Wednesday morning.
Although weakening as it goes, the massive storm - which caused wind warnings from Florida to Canada - will continue to bring heavy rain and local flooding, said Daniel Brown, warning coordination meteorologist at the National Hurricane Center in Miami.
As Hurricane Sandy closed in on the Northeast, it converged with a cold-weather system that turned it into a monstrous hybrid of rain and high wind - and even snow in West Virginia and other mountainous areas inland.
Skyline: Brooklyn Bridge Park pictured here
after it flooded following the arrival of Sandy, which has made landfall
on the East Coast of the US
Bang: This image from video provided by Dani
Hart shows what appears to be a transformer exploding in lower Manhattan
as seen from a building rooftop in Brooklyn
Bright light: This photo shows what appear to be
transformers exploding after much of lower Manhattan lost power during
Superstorm Sandy in New York
Flooding: Water rushes into the Carey Tunnel
(previously the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel), caused by Sandy on Monday
night in the financial district of New York
Flood water rushes into a below-ground carpark in New York's Financial District
It still packed hurricane-force wind, and forecasters were careful to say it was still dangerous to the tens of millions in its path.
While the hurricane's 90 mph winds registered as only a Category 1 on a scale of five, it packed 'astoundingly low' barometric pressure, giving it terrific energy to push water inland, said Kerry Emanuel, a professor of meteorology at MIT. .
Three of the victims were children, one just 8 years old.
Sandy, which killed 69 people in the Caribbean before making its way up the Eastern Seaboard, began to hook left at midday Monday toward the New Jersey coast.
Even before it made landfall, crashing waves had claimed an old, 50-foot piece of Atlantic City's world-famous Boardwalk.
'We are looking at the highest storm surges ever recorded' in the Northeast, said Jeff Masters, meteorology director for Weather Underground, a private forecasting service.
Sitting on the dangerous northeast wall of the storm, the New York metropolitan area got the worst of it.
An explosion at a ConEdison substation knocked out power to about 310,000 customers in Manhattan, said Miksad.
'We see a pop. The whole sky lights up,' said Dani Hart, 30, who was watching the storm from the roof of her building in the Navy Yards.
'It sounded like the Fourth of July,' Stephen Weisbrot said from his 10th-floor apartment.
New York University's Tisch Hospital was forced to evacuate 200 patients after its backup generator failed. NYU Medical Dean Robert Grossman said patients - among them 20 babies from neonatal intensive care that were on battery-powered respirators - had to be carried down staircases and to dozens of waiting ambulances.
Without power, the hospital had no elevator service, meaning patients had to be carefully carried down staircases and outside into the weather. Gusts of wind blew their blankets as nurses held IVs and other equipment.
Raging: More than 50 homes have been destroyed at Breezy Point in the Queens area of New York, as a result of Hurricane Sandy
Isolated: Jane's Carousel, the vintage
merry-go-round in Brooklyn Bridge Park, in the DUMBO (Down Under the
Manhattan Bridge Overpass) section of Brooklyn, is 'basically an island
now', Instagram user Andjelicaaa said
Bellevue and Coney Island hospitals have no power. There have been no storm-related fatalities in the hospitals and there are 6,100 people in city shelters.
About 670,000 homes and businesses were without power late Monday in the city and suburban Westchester County.
In Schwartz's Brooklyn neighborhood of Red Hook, residents who ignored a mandatory evacuation order awoke to debris-strewn streets and a continued blackout. About 2 inches of mucky dirt and leaves covered streets crisscrossed by downed power lines after water sloshed 12 blocks inland.
The doors of the Fairway grocery store were blown out. Several cars left in the parking lot were shifted by flood waters overnight and were left crammed door to door.
Schwartz and her husband rode out the storm on the third floor of the residences above the Fairway and said white-capped flood waters reached at least 3 feet around the building.
"It was scary how fast the water came up," she said.
Help: New York City resident Gary He posted this
picture with the caption 'Dude in snorkeling mask trying to rescue his
friend in Greenpoint (Brooklyn)'
Not only was the subway shut down, but the Holland Tunnel connecting New York to New Jersey was closed, as was a tunnel between Brooklyn and Manhattan. The Brooklyn Bridge, the George Washington Bridge, the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and several other spans were closed due to high winds.
The three major airports in the New York area - LaGuardia, Newark Liberty and Kennedy - remained shut down Tuesday.
Overall, more than 13,500 flights had been canceled for Monday and Tuesday, almost all related to the storm, according to the flight-tracking service FlightAware.
A construction crane atop a $1.5 billion luxury high-rise in midtown Manhattan collapsed in high winds and dangled precariously. Thousands of people were ordered to leave several nearby buildings as a precaution, including 900 guests at the ultramodern Le Parker Meridien hotel.
Alice Goldberg, 15, a tourist from Paris, was watching television in the hotel - whose slogan is 'Uptown, Not Uptight' - when a voice came over the loudspeaker and told everyone to leave.
'They said to take only what we needed, and leave the rest, because we'll come back in two or three days,' she said as she and hundreds of others gathered in the luggage-strewn marble lobby. 'I hope so.'
Wall Street remained closed today and U.S. stock exchanges said they were testing contingency plans to ensure trading resumes as soon as possible this week after Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast.
U.S. markets will be closed for a second day - the first time since 1888 that the NYSE remained closed for two consecutive days due to weather.
The New York Stock Exchange said contingency plans are being tested only as a safety measure.
Fire destroyed at least 50 homes Monday night in a flooded neighborhood in the Breezy Point section of the borough of Queens, where the Rockaway peninsula juts into the Atlantic Ocean.
Firefighters told WABC-TV that they had to use a boat to rescue residents because the water was chest high on the street. About 25 people were trapped in one home, with two injuries reported.
Airlines canceled around 12,500 flights because of the storm, a number that was expected to grow.
Off North Carolina, not far from an area known as 'the Graveyard of the Atlantic,' a replica of the 18th-century sailing ship HMS Bounty that was built for the 1962 Marlon Brando movie 'Mutiny on the Bounty' sank when her diesel engine and bilge pumps failed. Coast Guard helicopters plucked 14 crew members from rubber lifeboats bobbing in 18-foot seas.
No movement: Vehicles are submerged on 14th Street near the Consolidated Edison power plant on Monday in Manhattan, New York
Submerged: Instagram user 'Jesse and Greg' posted this incredible picture of East Village flooding in Manhattan, New York
Cars were flooded in the Financial District of New York as Hurricane Sandy threatens 50million people on the East CoastA 15th crew member who was found
unresponsive several hours after the others was later pronounced dead.
The Bounty's captain was still missing. And officials declared an 'unusual event' at the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant in Lacey Township, N.J., the nation's oldest, when waters surged to 6 feet above sea level during the evening.
Within two hours, the situation at the reactor - which was offline for regular maintenance - was upgraded to an alert, the second-lowest in a four-tiered warning system. Oyster Creek provides 9 percent of the state's electricity.
In Baltimore, fire officials said four unoccupied rowhouses collapsed in the storm, sending debris into the street but causing no injuries. Meanwhile, a blizzard in far western Maryland caused a pileup of tractor-trailers that blocked the westbound lanes of Interstate 68 on slippery Big Savage Mountain near the town of Finzel.
'It's like a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs up here,' said Bill Wiltson, a Maryland State Police dispatcher.
Hundreds of miles from the storm's center, gusts topping 60 mph prompted officials to close the port of Portland, Maine, and scaring away several cruise ships.
A state of emergency in New Hampshire prompted Vice President Joe Biden to cancel a rally in Keene and Republican nominee Mitt Romney's wife, Ann, to call off her bus tour through the Granite State.
'There's something about this storm,' she said. 'I feel it deep inside.'
Despite dire warnings and evacuation orders that began Saturday, many stayed put.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie - whose own family had to move to the executive mansion after his home in Mendham, far from the storm's center, lost power - criticized the mayor of Atlantic City for opening shelters there instead of forcing people out.
Eugenia Buono, 77, and her neighbor, Elaine DiCandio, 76, were among several dozen people who took shelter at South Kingstown High School in Narragansett, R.I. They live on Harbor Island, which is connected to the mainland by a causeway.
Reggie Thomas emerged this morning from his job as a maintenance supervisor at a prison near the overflowing Hudson River, a toothbrush in his front pocket, to find his 2011 Honda with its windows down and a foot (304 millimeters) of water inside.
'It's totaled,' Thomas said, with a shrug. 'You would have needed a boat last night.'
Today stock trading is closed in the U.S. again for a second day running - the last time the New York Stock Exchange was closed for weather was in 1985 because of Hurricane Gloria, and it will be the first time since 1888 that the exchange will have been closed for two consecutive days because of weather.
Residents in New York City spent much of yesterday trying to salvage normal routines, jogging and snapping pictures of the water while officials warned the worst of the storm had not hit. Water lapped over the seawall in Battery Park City, flooding rail yards, subway tracks, tunnels and roads.
NYC'S HISTORY OF HURRICANES
1821 Hurricane:
Without modern technology, the hurricane in September, 1821, caught New
Yorkers off guard when, in one hour, the tide rose 13 feet. The East
River and Hudson River breached, with their waters meeting across Lower
Manhattan. The area was not largely populated then, so there were few
deaths
1893 Hurricane A Category 1 hurricane completely destroyed Hog Island, a resort island in southern Queens
1938 Hurricane Nearly 200 people were killed when the Category 3 hurricane swept over Long Island and into New England. It caused millions of dollars of damages in NYC, where it killed 10 people and destroyed hundreds of trees in Central Park
1954, Carol The hurricane, which had sustained winds of more than 100mph, hit eastern Long Island and caused major flooding throughout New York City
1955, Connie and Diane Rain from the two hurricanes caused flooding across the city. There were more than 200 deaths in Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey
1960, Donna The hurricane created an 11-foot storm tide in the New York Harbor, inflicting extensive pier damage
1972, Agnes The tropical storm flooded areas from North Caroline to New York and caused 122 deaths and more than $6 billion in damage
1985, Gloria Serious damage was inflicted on Long Island
1996, Bertha The tropical storm washed out the city in July 1966
1999, Floyd The tropical storm hit New Jersey and New York with 60mph winds and dropped up to 15 inches of rain. Flash flooding forced residents from their homes
2011, Irene The hurricane was downgraded to a tropical storm just before hitting the city, which had issued mandatory evacuation orders for those living along the coast. Up to 7 inches of rain fell as winds reached 65 mph. It inflicted an estimated $100 million in damages
Source: Information from the New York City and Nassau County Offices of Emergency Management
1893 Hurricane A Category 1 hurricane completely destroyed Hog Island, a resort island in southern Queens
1938 Hurricane Nearly 200 people were killed when the Category 3 hurricane swept over Long Island and into New England. It caused millions of dollars of damages in NYC, where it killed 10 people and destroyed hundreds of trees in Central Park
1954, Carol The hurricane, which had sustained winds of more than 100mph, hit eastern Long Island and caused major flooding throughout New York City
1955, Connie and Diane Rain from the two hurricanes caused flooding across the city. There were more than 200 deaths in Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey
1960, Donna The hurricane created an 11-foot storm tide in the New York Harbor, inflicting extensive pier damage
1972, Agnes The tropical storm flooded areas from North Caroline to New York and caused 122 deaths and more than $6 billion in damage
1985, Gloria Serious damage was inflicted on Long Island
1996, Bertha The tropical storm washed out the city in July 1966
1999, Floyd The tropical storm hit New Jersey and New York with 60mph winds and dropped up to 15 inches of rain. Flash flooding forced residents from their homes
2011, Irene The hurricane was downgraded to a tropical storm just before hitting the city, which had issued mandatory evacuation orders for those living along the coast. Up to 7 inches of rain fell as winds reached 65 mph. It inflicted an estimated $100 million in damages
Source: Information from the New York City and Nassau County Offices of Emergency Management
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