A taxi parking lot is flooded in Hoboken, New Jersey.
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Few pictures of Hurricane Sandy captured both the enormity of
the disaster and the unquenchable spirit buried deep in the city's core
better than the image of Jane's Carousel, the glass-enclosed
merry-go-round on the waterfront near the Brooklyn Bridge, taken at the
height of the storm. The photo shows the dark water lapping at the
horses' hooves, with the eerie blacked-out lower-Manhattan skyline in
the background, and the festive riderless ponies twinkling merrily in
the bright yellow light. Originally posted on Instagram and picked up by
CNN, the picture was seen all around the world; at one point that night
it was at the top of Twitter's trends.
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Amusement park rides in Seaside Heights are in the ocean. The Casino Pier roller coaster ended up in the ocean.
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The winds of Superstorm Sandy, which made landfall Monday Oct
29th, caused multiple fatalities, halted mass transit and cut power to
more than 6 million homes and businesses.
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A submerged escalator at the South Ferry subway station in Lower Manhattan.
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North Carolina 12 is buckled from pounding surf leading into
Mirlo Beach in Rodanthe, N.C. on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. People on North
Carolina's Outer Banks are facing some flooding and damage from
Hurricane Sandy, but emergency management officials say it could have
been worse.
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A large tanker came ashore on Staten Island as a result of
Superstorm Sandy. Half of the vessel was on the shoreline, and the rest
was in the water.
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An oak tree in a garden in Long Island, New York was uprooted
from the ground. As the storm gains strength, the garden begins to swell
as the roots of the tree are lifted out of the ground.
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The total damage from Superstorm Sandy could run as high as $50
billion, according to the forecasting firm Eqecat. That would make it
the second-costliest storm in U.S. history after Hurricane Katrina. The
estimate includes property damage and lost business.
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From the official MTA Flickr page, a boat on the tracks at Metro-North's Ossining Station on the Hudson Line.
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A portion of Harvey Cedars on Long Beach Island, New Jersey was
underwater after Superstorm Sandy blew across the state with devastating
results.
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Beach houses are left destroyed in the Bell Harbor community
after Sandy inundated the Rockaway Peninsula in the borough of Queens,
New York.
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