SANDY... !!!

[Neeraj Ghodke]

 
 
Sandy devastates the East Coast leaving Atlantic City underwater

Water world: The famous casinos of Atlantic City, New Jersey, were submeraged after superstorm Sandy hit land nearby

Grave danger: Sandy crashed ashore late on Monday evening near the gambling resort, triggering the evacuation of more than one million people across a dozen states

Waves crash against a previously damaged pier before landfall of Hurricane Sandy this afternoon as storm-driven waves crashed ashore and flooded seafront communities

Lashed with rain: A van skids in the flooded streets of Atlantic city, where casinos are shuttered, tourists have and 500 are trapped in their homes

U.S. Route 30, the White Horse Pike, one of three major approaches to Atlantic City, New Jersey, is covered with water from Absecon Bay during the approach of Hurricane Sandy

Waves crash next to the Atlantic City Boardwalk, already advancing past the beach, as wind speeds strengthen to 90mph

A man stands on a dry patch of sidewalk on a flooded street as Hurricane Sandy moves up the coast

An empty Boardwalk before the arrival of Hurricane Sandy today as much of the eastern United States was in lock down mode

Chef and maintenance worker AnRich Stringer pulls a pallet loaded with sandbags across the boardwalk to a restaurant entrance for protection from Hurricane Sandy

Battered by the boardwalk: An empty street in flooded Atlantic City, which has taken a direct hit from the superstorm, forcing residents to flee inland

Astonishing scenes: Heavy waves smash over the seawall in Winthrop, Massachusetts this morning as what was then only classified as a hurricane moves closer to the region

Submerged: A car is covered by water near the Consolidated Edison power plant in New York, after Sandy knocked out power to at least 3.1million people, and large sections of the city were plunged into darkness

Destroyed: A severely damaged home in Manalapan, Florida after the 90mph winds of Sandy passed by

Terrifying episode: Heavy waves smash over the seawall in Winthrop, with the 911 system inundated with 10,000 calls every half hour

Sea life: A row of houses stands in floodwaters at Grassy Sound in North Wildwood, New Jersey, after the powerful storm lurched westwards and took dead aim at New Jersey and Delaware

Devastation: Bulldozers swing into action to clean up Fort Lauderdale after Sandy swept along the coast

Breached: Floodwaters from Sandy rush into the Port Authority bus terminal in New Jersey through an elevator shaft

Journey: Graphic showing the current position of the superstorm after it swept up the East Coast

Intense: A journalist battles to get to work in ravaged Atlantic City

Brave and dedicated: Emergency services try to help the town's frightened residents, 500 of whom are trapped in their homes

A police car drives through a flooded street near the Atlantic City Convention Center on Monday

A television reporter stands in water one the beach near the Boardwalk as 'Frankenstorm' threatens to wreak havoc on the area with storm surges, driving rain and devastating winds

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

Atlantic City's 12 casinos closed for only the fourth time in the 34-year history of legalized gambling here. State parks also shut down

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

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