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Sandy’s shocking aftermath

UPDATED: The day after the storm struck the East Coast, amazing images of the damage already left behind SLIDE SHOW

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Sandy's shocking aftermath

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  • A roller coaster washes out to sea off the Jersey Shore Via Instagram @jaimelapinta

  • Boat on commuter rail tracks north of New York City Via @CBSThisMorning

  • Shops in Manhattan Instagrammed by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Instagram @nygovcuomo

  • Port Authority bus terminal is empty Via Facebook user Jim Glaub

  • Breezy Point, Queens, N.Y. suffered a huge fire Via @coreburn

  • Flooded subway station Via Facebook user Amy Wood

  • Ambulances line up to evacuate NYU hospital

  • Patients were evacuated from NYU Hospital when a backup generator went down (John Minchillo) @johnminchillo

  • Fallen trees at 214th Street in Manhattan Mary Beth Williams

  • Water overwhelms the Hoboken PATH station in New Jersey Via Instagram user ap973

  • Flooding in a New York subway station Via @katesilver

  • Cars are underwater in New York's East Village @jesseandgreg

  • The scene at the Midtown Tunnel Instagram, Chris Berg

  • A parking garage in lower Manhattan @raywert

  • New York's Alphabet City, at the corner of 14th Street and Avenue C, is under water @justinbrannan

  • Some New Yorker left a Bentley parked on the street to be submerged Instagram, Casey Neistat

  • Flooding on the West Side Highway in New York @buzzfeedjack

  • Viewers react as waves crash against a seawall near homes in Scituate, Mass. Monday, Oct. 29, 2012. AP

  • Waters flood Ocean Ave. in Sea Bright, N.J. AP

  • Snorkeling in Greenpoint, Brooklyn (Twitter, Gary He) Gary He, Twitter

  • The Atlantic City boardwalk is washed away by the storm (Facebook, Dann Cuellar) Dann Cuellar, Facebook

  • The view from Brooklyn Bridge Park (@mattdanzico) @mattdanzico

  • The extent of the storm Wunderground via @BillMcKibben

  • The Empire State Building over a dark New York skyline Via Twitter user Ronnie Joice

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New Yorkers and others across the East Coast awoke this morning to images they never thought they’d see — pictures of cars floating down streets, submerged subway stations, tunnels used by hundreds of thousands every day filled with water.

Here are some images of the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy; we’ll keep adding to these all day.

Alex Halperin is news editor at Salon. You can follow him on Twitter @alexhalperin. More Alex Halperin.

David Daley is the executive editor of Salon. More David Daley.

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