Apocalyptic scene: Firemen continue to pour water on smoldering fires on Beach Blvd in Breezy Point, New York. More than 100 homes were destroyed by fire after Sandy passed directly though the area
Completely destroyed: Fires ripped through around 130 homes on Breezy Point after the superstorm hit
Beachfront: A property in Rockaway, New York, somehow manages to remain upright despite having its innards swept away by the flood
Shocked: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg views damage in the Breezy Point area of Queens yesterday
Another world: This community north of Seaside, New Jersey lies covered in sand after the superstorm blew through
Lying in a heap: Boats cluster together at a marina in Brant Beach on Long Beach Island, New Jersey
Submerged: An image provided by the U.S. Coast guard shows flooded homes in Tuckerton, New Jersey
Devastation: Debris lies strewn across the south shore of Staten Island, New York
Stuck: Two cars sit abandoned in sand swept in by the superstorm onto Long Beach, New York
Non-salvageable: A row of beachfront houses tilts backwards on the New Jersey coast
Homes ripped apart: The facade of this New York apartment building was knocked off by Sandy
Shining through: The sun sets over the Robert Moses Causeway leading to Fire Island, New York, last night
Destruction: Cars floating after being pushed out a flooded basement in the city during last night's battering
Fleet in the floods: Yellow cabs in a parking lot are surrounded by water after Superstorm Sandy struck Hoboken, New Jersey
Understatement: A Whole Foods store in New York informs its customers that it is closed 'due to inclement weather'
Toppled: Pictures from Washington DC show how the wind has grabbed hold of trees and ripped them out by the trunk
Broken home: A man and child look in disbelief at a collapsed house in the Cosey Beach neighborhood of East Haven, Connecticut
Chaos: A boat moved by gushing waters rests on the tracks at Metro-North's Ossining Station on the Hudson Line
Sandy in the Midwest: Waves slam against a breakwall at North Avenue Beach on Lake Michigan in Chicago this morning
Water, water everywhere: An aerial view of flooding on the bay side of Seaside, New Jersey
Shock: Residents look over the remains of burned homes in the Rockaways section
Aid at hand: An emergency operations centre in Fairfax County, Virginia, co-ordinates the mammoth response to the severe flooding caused by Sandy
Split: The wall of this house in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, shows how hard the East Coast has been pummeled by Sandy
Intense: A journalist battles to get to work in ravaged Atlantic City