Sandy leaves US limping, 33 dead, 7.5 mn without power

 

Slamming into New York and New Jersey overnight, Hurricane Sandy Tuesday left a vast trail of destruction killing at least 33 people and leaving about 7.5 million people without power on the US East Coast.

Even as it was downgraded to a storm, Sandy knocked power out of a large swath of Manhattan in the financial district of New York, a city that never sleeps, according to various media reports.

Streets were littered with debris and buildings damaged. Seven subway tunnels under the East River were flooded. While several bridges over the East River were set to reopen, other mass transit service, including commuter rails, was still suspended.

Swirling water formed white-capped cascades in the Ground Zero construction zone where the twin towers destroyed in the Sep 11, 2001 terrorist attack once stood...Read More