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Hurricane Sandy


 It was the storm that made history and misery, left death and unprecedented destruction, crippled mass transit and tested the city’s mettle from the Bronx in New Jersey to Breezy Point. Hurricane Sandy pounded the city into submission Tuesday, with officials reporting at least 32 New Yorkers killed during the storm’s lethal two-day attack and estimating damages at a staggering $20 billion. The imperfect storm shut down all city transit for a third straight day while inflicting the worse damage in the 108-year history of the subway system. Schools were closed, and remained shuttered again Wednesday. The New York Stock Exchange was rained out for a second straight day - but opened for business as usual Wednesday. It was the first time the exchange closed for two consecutive days due to weather since 1888. It came after a storm surge nearly 14-feet high submerged the Financial District.How ferocious were the rising waters across the city? Even the New York Aquarium was flooded.Things were no better in the skies, even after Sandy and its 80 mph winds departed. More than 12,000 flights were canceled due to the hurricane, and all three major local airports were closed yet again despite only light rain and dissipating winds. The howling gales created some surreal tableaus. On Staten Island, a 168-foot tanker was hurtled onto land - about a mile away from where it was moored. A powerboat was tossed in the middle of the Metro-North tracks in Ossining. A construction crane dangled precariously for a second straight day above West 57th St. - becoming the city’s latest tourist attraction. Gawkers snapped photos and stood with their heads tilted toward the skyline. The storm’s most stunning blow landed in Breezy Point, the Queens beachfront getaway where a massive fire gutted more than 100 homes despite the heroic efforts of hundreds of firefighters. The smoke-eaters raced through floodwaters that reached to their necks as the blaze raged like a forest fire transported to the Rockaway Peninsula. Those homes that dodged the fire were flooded by the massive waves off the Atlantic Ocean, with one local guessing that 40% of the homes were destroyed in the enclave of 3,000 people.

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