Ten years in the past, Hurricane Sandy barreled by way of the Caribbean after which up the Eastern seaboard, bringing floods and storm surges that destroyed houses and important infrastructure. It was probably the most damaging storms in U.S. historical past, costing the nation greater than $81 billion, according to NOAA.

Sandy made landfall over New Jersey and New York on October 29. Its results killed 72 individuals within the U.S. and displaced thousands. It shut down the most important metropolis within the nation, with 17% of New York City underwater from the storm surge, in line with a recap from the Lower Manhattan Coastal Resiliency website. About 2 million metropolis residents misplaced energy, and there have been gasoline shortages that lasted for weeks.

Airports within the northeast cancelled round 20,000 flights nationwide in response to Sandy. The storm broken hospitals and different healthcare amenities all through, together with Coney Island hospital, Bellevue hospital in Manhattan, and Hoboken University Medical Center in New Jersey. Medical professionals struggled to assist sufferers by way of frequent outages, ABC News reported on the time.

Here are images that present the terrible extent of the storm surge within the area.