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'Superstorm' pounds East Coast

New York City awakened today 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. Scenes of the damage were found everywhere on the East Coast and even inland. Here is just a sampling of photos of the event from the Associated Press.

This handout photo provided by the U.S. Army shows Spc. Brett Hyde, Tomb Sentinel, 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard), keeping guard over the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier during Hurricane Sandy, at Arlington National Cemetery, Va., on Monday. Just like the Sentinel's Creed says "Through the years of diligence and praise and the discomfort of the elements, I will walk my tour in humble reverence to the best of my ability."

After checking to make sure his boat line is secure, Bob Casseday crosses a flooded street just over the bridge along Savannah Road in Lewes., Del., to get back home as Superstorm Sandy hits Delaware on Monday.

This photo provided by Dylan Patrick shows flooding along the Westside Highway near the USS Intrepid as Sandy moves through the area Monday in New York. Much of New York was plunged into darkness Monday by a superstorm that overflowed the city's historic waterfront, flooded the financial district and subway tunnels and cut power to nearly a million people.

Snow-covered trees are seen after an overnight storm Monday in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, near Gatlinburg, Tenn. Rangers expect more snow and high winds in the days to come as fallout from the storm pounding the East Coast.

Part of the Ocean City Fishing Pier in Ocean City, Del., is damaged as Hurricane Sandy bears down on the East Coast, on Monday.

Sveinn Storm, owner of Storm Bros. Ice Cream Factory, measures the flood waters outside his store in Annapolis, Md., this morning, in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy that passed through the East Coast.

Ocean waves kick up near homes along Peggoty Beach in Scituate, Mass., on Monday.

A woman reacts to waves crashing over a seawall in Narragansett, R.I., on Monday.

A person takes a photograph of the rough Atlantic Ocean from a pavilion in Cape May, N.J., on Monday.

Waves from Hurricane Sandy crash onto the damaged Avalon Pier in Kill Devil Hills, N.C., on Monday as Sandy churns up the East Coast.

Anne Arundel County, Md., workers Glenn Rispoli, left, and Wayne Rogall Jr., close River Road in Crownsville, Md., on Monday as Hurricane Sandy causes flooding.

Residents look down a flooded street Monday as Hurricane Sandy approaches in Mastic Beach, N.Y.

After checking to make sure his boat line is secure, Bob Casseday crosses the flooded street just over the bridge along Savannah Road in Lewes, Del., to get back home Monday as Hurricane Sandy hits Delaware.

Hilavio Baquero stands in front of waves as winds from Hurricane Sandy reach Seaside Park in Bridgeport, Conn., on Monday.

Omar Said, right, and Robert Stewart, center, place sandbags in front of Mills Fine Wine and Spirits in downtown Annapolis, Md., on Monday as Hurricane Sandy bears down on the region.

Storm surge hits a small tree as winds from Hurricane Sandy reach Seaside Park in Bridgeport, Conn., on Monday.

Crews at the Elizabeth River crossing prepare to close flood gates at the Midtown Tunnel in Norfolk, Va., ahead of high tide from Hurricane Sandy on Monday morning.

Youngsters run as waves crash against a seawall in Scituate, Mass., on Monday.

Waters flood Ocean Ave. in Sea Bright, N.J., on Monday.

Viewers brace against ocean spray as waves crash against a seawall in Scituate, Mass., on Monday.

A sign informs motorists along U.S. Route 50 that Maryland's Chesapeake Bay Bridge, which connects the state's eastern and western shores, is closed because of winds from Hurricane Sandy on Monday.

Snow sticks to tree limbs on Grandview Road in Beckley, W.Va., on Monday as Hurricane Sandy wheeled toward land as forecasters feared Monday, raking cities along the Northeast corridor with rain and wind gusts, flooding shore towns, washing away a section of the Atlantic City Boardwalk, and threatening to cripple Wall Street and New York's subway system with a huge surge of corrosive seawater.

One World Trade Center, right, peeks through a light rain as water from the Hudson River creeps up on Pier A Park with the expected arrival of Hurricane Sandy in Hoboken, N.J., on Monday.

A large tree in Methuen, Mass., lays atop power lines this morning due to Monday's hybrid superstorm Sandy. Sandy, the storm that made landfall Monday, caused multiple fatalities, halted mass transit and cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses.

This photo provided by Dylan Patrick shows flooding along the Westside Highway near the USS Intrepid, background center, as Sandy moves through the area on Monday in New York. Much of New York was plunged into darkness Monday by a superstorm that overflowed the city's historic waterfront, flooded the financial district and subway tunnels and cut power to nearly a million people.

Water from the Hudson River rises at Warrington Plaza near the closed Hoboken train station on Monday.

Lower Manhattan goes dark during the hybrid storm Sandy on Monday, viewed from the Brooklyn borough of New York.

Firefighters respond at the scene where the facade of a four-story building on 14th Street and 8th Avenue collapsed onto the sidewalk Monday in New York.

Members of the Wrightsville Fire Department, York County, Pa., from left, Garret Ishman, Ricky Brown and Jon Boyer look at the local emergency logs and listen to the scanner around 2 a.m. this morning for any damage from superstorm Sandy, in Wrightsville, Pa. 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 at least 18 deaths.

Snow covers Mountain Lake Road near Mountain Lake Hotel at an elevation of 4000 feet in Giles County Va. on Monday. About three inches of snow was measured in a snow gauge at the hotel, the first snow fall of the year, as result of Hurricane Sandy, according to the The Roanoke Times.

Viewers react as waves crash against a seawall near homes in Scituate, Mass., on Monday.

A worker clears a tree dropped by the high winds prior to landfall of Hurricane Sandy in Shrewsbury, Mass., on Monday.

Debris clearing begins at the Shipwreck Grill this morning in Bixton, Va.

Heavy surf crashes over a seawall on the Atlantic Ocean during the early stages of Hurricane Sandy on Monday in Kennebunk, Maine.

Huge waves break just off the beach Monday as Brandon Moncrief walks down the steps from an oceanfront motel in Buxton, N.C., on Hatteras Island.

Kim Johnson looks over the destruction near her seaside apartment in Atlantic City, N.J., this morning.

A worker cuts a downed tree that fell on a road Monday during the the early stages of Hurricane Sandy in Old Orchard Beach, Maine.

Orlando Martinez of Methuen, Mass., looks out this morning from the second story of his residence, where a large tree ripped up the street and fell into power lines due to Monday's hybrid storm Sandy.

As rain from Hurricane Sandy arrives in Washington on Monday, workers haul sandbags to shore up vulnerable spots at The Pavilion at the Old Post Office. The Justice Department is seen in the background.

Michael Wirtz, of Wilmington, Del., braves floodwaters and high winds that arrive with Hurricane Sandy along North Michigan Avenue in Atlantic City, N.J., on Monday.

Caleb Lavoie, 17, of Dayton, Maine, front, and Curtis Huard, 16, of Arundel, Maine, leap out of the way as a large wave crashes over a seawall on the Atlantic Ocean during the early stages of Hurricane Sandy on Monday in Kennebunk, Maine.