Sandy leaves death, damp and darkness in wake

Tuesday, October 30, 2012 | 7:06 a.m. CDT; updated 2:37 p.m. CDT, Tuesday, October 30, 2012

NEW YORK — Millions of people from Maine to the Carolinas awoke Tuesday without 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.

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