Disaster zone: This aerial photograph shows the extent of the damage to the Breezy Point section of Queens, New York, now littered with burned-out homes

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

 

Inaccessible: One day on and a portion of Harvey Cedars on Long Beach Island remains underwater

Devastation: Debris lies strewn across the south shore of Staten Island, New York

Widespread damage: The south shore area of Staten Island was severely damaged by the strong winds and floods coming in from Atlantic

 

Grounded: A sailboat beached in Long Beach yesterday as shocked local residents head outside to inspect the damage 

 

No way out: Homes in Fenwick Island, Delaware, sit surrounded by floodwaters yesterday

 

Bethany Beach, Delaware, looks more like Venice yesterday. Bethany and nearby Fenwick Island appeared to be among the hardest-hit parts of the state

 

Stuck: Two cars sit abandoned in sand swept in by the superstorm onto Long Beach, New York

 

Closed: The South Ferry subway station in New York was knee-deep in seawater last night

 

Travel hub: The extensive damage to the subway station will take time to repair - officials are unable to estimate when it will reopen for business

 

Non-salvageable: A row of beachfront houses tilts backwards on the New Jersey coast

 

 

Blowing through: A satellite image showing Sandy's progress inland towards the Michigan area

 

Homes ripped apart: The facade of this New York apartment building was knocked off by Sandy

 

Upended: Fallen power lines lie across a road in Atlantic City

 

Shining through: The sun sets over the Robert Moses Causeway leading to Fire Island, New York, last night

Damaged goods: A man inspects the flood damage to a warehouse in Brooklyn, New York

 

Tossed around like toys: Boats like crumpled in a heap in a harbour on the south shore of Staten Island

 

Sodden: The interior of a State Island building completely destroyed by floods swept up by the superstorm

 

 

Soaked: Local residents walk through the flooded Hudson Street in Hackensack, New Jersey

Stark: Foundations and pilings are all that remain of brick buildings and a boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey

Smashed: A street sign stands near apartment buildings and destroyed large sections of the historic boardwalk

View from the sky: Video taken from a helicopter shows the devastation along Jersey Shore

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

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

A firefighter leaves a destroyed home in Pasadena, Maryland, where the homeowner was killed overnight when a tree fell on his home during superstorm Sandy

Battered: This home in Manalapan, Florida, was ripped up and ravaged by Sandy when the storm passed through

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

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

Wrecked: A construction site sinks into a large hole on South Street Seaport - the clean-up operation is expected to cost over £12 billion

Transformation: A subway station now resembles a river in one of the US's largest cities

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

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

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

Upsetting: Tom and Deidre Duffy look through the wreckage of their home at Breezy Point, in Queens, which was devastated by fire

Sandy in the Midwest: Waves slam against a breakwall at North Avenue Beach on Lake Michigan in Chicago this morning

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

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

Water, water everywhere: An aerial view of flooding on the bay side of Seaside, New Jersey

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

A dead deer is pictured with driftwood and debris left by a combination of storm surge and high tide

Precarious: A crane attached to One57, a luxury apartment tower under construction in midtown Manhattan, hangs down after partially collapsing amid gusts from Sandy

Shock: Residents look over the remains of burned homes in the Rockaways section

Rescued: Hospital workers evacuate a patient Deborah Dadlani from NYU Langone Medical Center during Hurricane Sandy

Aid at hand: An emergency operations centre in Fairfax County, Virginia, co-ordinates the mammoth response to the severe flooding caused by Sandy

A flooded street between two casinos along the Boardwalk before the arrival of Hurricane Sandy as 'Frankenstorm' threatened to wreak havoc on the area with storm surges, driving rain and devastating winds

Pounding waves have already broken up sections of the Atlantic City boardwalk, according to photos posted to social media and discussion on police and fire scanners

Flooding begins to inundate a parking garage ahead of Hurricane Sandy as Governor Chris Christie's emergency declaration shut down the city's casinos and 30,000 residents were ordered to evacuate

 

 

A car sits in a flooded street near the ocean ahead of Hurricane Sandy today - and the worst is yet to come

 

A security guard stands outside the entrance of Caesar's Casino on the Atlantic City boardwalk, with doors covered with sheets of plywood for protection

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

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

Raging: More than 50 homes have been destroyed at Breezy Point in the Queens area of New York, as a result of Hurricane Sandy