Rising water rang apartment doorbells, 'like drowned sea captain rising up'
Nick Miller NEW YORK: Long Island is almost 200 kilometres long and about 30 kilometres wide, a fat digit pointing out into the Atlantic Ocean.
Island hit by Sandy's long trail of destruction
Nick Miller in New York Sand up to cars' windscreens, a yacht outside a convenience store after Sandy's waterwall left devastation in her wake.
Shops closed, windows sandbagged, streets deserted: US braced for Sandy
Nick Miller Hurricane Sandy Day dawned windy, rainy and ominous in New York city. The storm was still hundreds of miles away but its effects were beginning to take hold.
