A construction crane that collapsed in the high winds on Monday still dangled precariously 74 floors

NEW YORK — Millions of people from Maine to the Carolinas pictures of bahia de los angeles awoke Tuesday without pictures of bahia de los angeles electricity, and an eerily quiet New York City was all but closed off by car, train and air as superstorm Sandy steamed inland, still delivering punishing wind and rain. The U.S. death toll climbed to 39, many of the victims killed by falling trees.
The full extent of the damage pictures of bahia de los angeles in New Jersey, where the storm roared ashore Monday night with hurricane-force winds of 80 mph, was unclear. pictures of bahia de los angeles Police and fire officials, some with their own departments flooded, fanned out to rescue hundreds.
We are in the midst of urban search and rescue. Our teams are moving as fast as they can, Gov. Chris Christie said. The devastation on the Jersey Shore is some of the worst we ve ever seen. The cost of the storm is incalculable at this point.
More than 8.2 million people across the East were without power. Airlines canceled more than 15,000 flights around the world, and it could be days before pictures of bahia de los angeles the mess is untangled and passengers can get where they re going.
President Barack Obama canceled pictures of bahia de los angeles a third straight day of campaigning, scratching events scheduled for Wednesday in swing state Ohio, which got clobbered by Sandy s winds as the storm pushed west. Republican Mitt Romney resumed his campaign, but with plans to turn a political rally in Ohio into a storm relief event.
pictures of bahia de los angeles Lower Manhattan, which includes Wall Street, was among the hardest-hit areas after the storm sent a nearly 14-foot surge of seawater, a record, coursing pictures of bahia de los angeles over its seawalls and highways and into low-lying streets.
Water cascaded into the gaping, unfinished construction pit at the World Trade Center, and the New York Stock Exchange was closed for a second day, the first time that has happened because pictures of bahia de los angeles of weather since the Blizzard of 1888.
A downtown hospital, New York University s Tisch, pictures of bahia de los angeles evacuated 200 patients after its backup generator failed. About 20 babies from the neonatal intensive care unit were carried down staircases and were given battery-powered respirators.
A construction crane that collapsed pictures of bahia de los angeles in the high winds on Monday still dangled precariously 74 floors above the streets of midtown pictures of bahia de los angeles Manhattan. And on Staten Island, a tanker ship wound up beached on the shore.
With water standing in two major commuter tunnels and seven subway tunnels under the East River, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said it was unclear when the nation s largest transit system would be rolling again. It shut down Sunday night ahead of the storm.
The saltwater surge inundated subway signals, switches and the electrified third rails, and covered tracks with sludge. Workers began pumping the water out and will ultimately have to walk the hundreds of miles of track to inspect it.
Reggie Thomas, a maintenance supervisor at a prison near the overflowing Hudson River, emerged from an overnight shift, a toothbrush in his front pocket, to find his Honda with its windows down and a foot of water inside. The windows automatically go down when the car is submerged to free drivers.
This will be one for the record books, said John Miksad, senior vice president for electric operations at Consolidated Edison, which had more than 670,000 customers without power in and around New York City.
Around midday, Sandy was about 120 miles east of Pittsburgh, pushing westward with winds of 45 mph, and was expected to make a turn into New York State on Tuesday night. Although weakening as it goes, the storm will continue to bring heavy rain and flooding, said Daniel Brown of the National Hurricane Center in Miami.
In a measure of the storm s immense size and power, waves on southern Lake Michigan rose to a record-tying 20.3 feet. High winds spinning off Sandy s edges clobbered the Cleveland area early Tuesday, uprooting trees, cutting power to hundreds of thousands, closing schools and flooding major roads along Lake Erie.
The death toll climbed rapidly, and included 17 victims in New York State — 10 of them in New York City — along with five dead in Pennsylvania and three in New Jersey. Sandy also killed 69 people in the Caribbean before making pictures of bahia de los angeles its way up the Eastern Seaboard.
In New Jersey, Sandy destroyed several blocks of Atlantic City s world-famous boardwalk and wrecked several other boardwalks up and down the coast. A Seaside Heights roller coaster was left partially submerged in the ocean.
A huge swell of water swept over the small New Jersey town of Moonachie, near the Hackensack River, and authorities struggled to rescue about 800 people, some of them living in a trailer park. And in neighboring Little Ferry, water suddenly started gushing out of storm drains pictures of bahia de los angeles overnight, submerging a road under 4 feet of water and swamping houses.
I looked out and the next thing you know, the water just came up through the grates. It came up so quickly you couldn t do anything about it. If you wanted to move your car to higher ground you didn t have enough time, said Little Ferry resident Leo Quigley, who with his wife was taken to higher ground by boat.
Sandy closed in on the Northeast a hurricane, converging with a cold-weather system that turned it into a monstrous hybrid of rain, high wind — and even snow in West Virginia and other mountainous areas inland.
Just before it made landfall at 8 p.m. near Atlantic City, N.J., forecasters stripped Sandy of hurricane status, but the distinction was purely technical, based on its shape and internal temperature.
While the hurricane s 80 mph winds registered as only a Category 1 on a scale of five, it packed the lowest barometric pressure on record in the Northeast, giving it terrific energy to push water inland.
In New York, the construction crane atop a 1,000-foot, $1.5 billion luxury high-rise in midtown Manhattan dangled for a second day while authorities tried to figure out how to secure it. Thousands were ordered to leave nearby buildings as a precaution, including 900 guests at the ultramodern Le Parker Meridien hotel.
They said to take only what we needed, and leave the rest, because we ll come back in two or three days, she said as she and hundreds of others gathered in the luggage-strewn marble lobby. pictures of bahia de los angeles I hope so.
In Baltimore, fire officials said four unoccupied rowhouses collapsed in the storm, sending debris into the street but causing no injuries. A blizzard in western Maryland caused a pileup of tractor-trailers that blocked part of Interstate 68 on slippery Big Savage Mountain.
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