Millions of people in the Northeast U.S., the region most dependent on electric grids and mass transit networks for everyday life, struggled to find normalcy amid the floods, destruction and death from superstorm Sandy.
Left, a member of the Fire Department of New York looks out over floodwaters on Hylan Boulevard in the Staten Island borough of New York, on Oct. 30, 2012.
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