PHOTO GALLERY: Sandy brings disarray to Northeast

Waves pound a lighthouse on the shores of Lake Erie on Tuesday near Cleveland. High winds spinning off the edge of Sandy took a vicious swipe at northeast Ohio early Tuesday, uprooting trees, cutting power to hundreds of thousands, closing schools and flooding parts of major commuter arteries that run along Lake Erie.   |  Tony Dejak/The Associated Press

Cars are submerged at the entrance to a parking garage in New York's Financial District in the aftermath of Sandy on Tuesday. New York City awakened Tuesday to a flooded subway system, shuttered financial markets and hundreds of thousands of people without power a day after a wall of seawater and high winds slammed into the city, destroying buildings and flooding tunnels.   |  Richard Drew/The Associated Press

Rescuers bring people out by boat Tuesday in Little Ferry, N.J., in the wake of Sandy. Sandy arrived along the East Coast and morphed into a huge and problematic system, putting more than 7.5 million homes and businesses in the dark and causing a number of deaths.   |  Craig Ruttle/The Associated Press

This NOAA satellite image taken Tuesday shows superstorm Sandy slowly moving westward while weakening across southern Pennsylvania. The National Weather Service said a foot and more of snow was reported in lower elevations of West Virginia, where most towns and roads are. High elevations in the mountains were getting more than two feet and a blizzard warning for more than a dozen counties was in effect until Wednesday afternoon.   |  NOAA via The Associated Press

Foundations and pilings are all that remain of brick buildings and a boardwalk Tuesday in Atlantic City, N.J., after they were destroyed when a powerful storm that started out as Hurricane Sandy made landfall on the East Coast on Monday night.   |  Seth Wenig/The Associated Press

Employees from MTA New York City Transit work to restore the South Ferry subway station after it was flooded by seawater Tuesday. Sandy, the storm that made landfall Monday, caused multiple fatalities, halted mass transit and cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses.   |  Metropolitan Transportation Authority via The Associated Press

A parking lot full of yellow cabs is flooded as a result of Sandy on Tuesday in Hoboken, N.J.   |  Charles Sykes/The Associated Press

A huge tree split apart and fell over the front yard and fence of a home on Carpenter Avenue in the aftermath of Sandy on Tuesday in Sea Cliff, N.Y.   |  Kathy Kmonicek/The Associated Press

Kim Johnson looks over the destruction Tuesday near her seaside apartment in Atlantic City, N.J. Sandy, the storm that made landfall Monday, caused multiple fatalities, halted mass transit and cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses.   |  Seth Wenig/The Associated Press

A firefighter surveys the smoldering ruins of a house Tuesday in the Breezy Point section of New York. More than 50 homes were destroyed in a fire which swept through the oceanfront community during Sandy.   |  Mark Lennihan/The Associated Press

Andrew Weekly, 11, of Mount Sidney, Va., climbs up a ridge with a snow saucer Tuesday at Briery Branch Gap in the George Washington/Jefferson National Forest near the West Virginia state line in Briery Branch, Va. Andrew traveled with his family for a sled outing as Sandy dumped heavy snow in parts of Virginia and West Virginia.   |  Michael Reilly/The Daily News-Record via The Associated Press