Long Island destruction immediately after Sandy

In Westhampton, the high tide in Shinnecock Bay, coupled with Sandy's powerful winds and rain, left homes in the area flooded. (Oct 30, 2012)

In East Hampton village, the parking lot at Georgica Beach parking lot was damaged by wind and waves from Sandy the night before. (Oct. 30, 2012)

Sand covers Dune Road in Westhampton, caused by flooding from the high tide and Sandy's powerful arrival. (Oct. 30, 2012)

Several boats were scattered across Empire Boulevard in Island Park by Sandy's powerful winds. (Oct. 30, 2012)

Verizon linemen prep to replace downed poles on Northville Turnpike in Riverhead. Cleanups began all over the North Fork on Tuesday, the morning after Sandy pounded the metropolitan area. (Oct. 30, 2012)

Superstorm Sandy left sand after the storm surge into Long Beach. (Oct. 30, 2012)

Cars are left embedded in sand left after a storm surge roared into the streets of Long Beach during megastorm Sandy. (Oct. 30, 2012)

The Allegria Hotel in Long Beach was damaged during megastorm Sandy, which left piles of sand after its storm surge receded. (Oct. 30, 2012)

Cars in Long Beach are embedded in sand left by the storm surge from superstorm Sandy. (Oct. 30, 2012)

A firefighter responds to the scene at a burned out building on Woodcleft Avenue in Freeport. The blaze apparently occurred Oct. 29 during the height of superstorm Sandy. (Oct. 30, 2012)

Debris is what remains of the Shore Line Bar at the foot of Ocean Avenue in Center Moriches. (Oct. 30, 2012)

Debris is what remains of the Shore Line Bar at the foot of Ocean Avenue in Center Moriches. (Oct. 30, 2012)

A boat is beached on South Ocean Avenue in Freeport. (Oct. 30, 2012)

A house on Soundview Drive in Montauk hangs precariously over the beach Tuesday after churning ocean waters carried out the sand Monday night during superstorm Sandy. (Oct. 30, 2012)

East Hampton Town Highway Department equipment is used to clear debris from South Edgewater Street in Montauk. The cleanup was part of the work in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy. (Oct. 30, 2012)

Nikon at Jones Beach Theater is under water the day after Sandy. (Oct. 30, 2012)

Damage caused by superstorm Sandy on Woodcleft Avenue in Freeport. (Oct. 30, 2012)

Capt. Scott Parris of the Patchogue Fire Department rescues two sisters and their dog Abby from a flooded house on Bayview Avenue in Patchogue. (Oct. 30, 2012)

Boats float Tuesday morning along Woodcleft Avenue in Freeport, brought in Monday night by the swirling waters of superstorm Sandy. (Oct. 30, 2012)

Damage from superstorm Sandy includes the upheaval of roads such these cracks along West Shore Road in Oyster Bay. (Oct. 30, 2012)

A house on Kenwood Road in Garden City was leveled Monday night by an explosion during superstorm Sandy. Neighbors rescued a man, 97. (Oct. 30, 2012)

On Kildare Road in Garden City, a family looks at car crushed by a tree, felled by high winds during superstorm Sandy. (Oct. 30, 2012)

Wind and water brought by megastorm Sandy damaged a pavilion at Main Beach in East Hampton. (Oct. 30, 2012)

The skies over the Atlantic Ocean looked promising Tuesday morning off Main Beach in East Hampton. (Oct. 30, 2012)

High tide surrounds houses at Oak Beach Tuesday morning. They were photographed from the News12 helicopter. (Oct. 30, 2012)

Sag Harbor Fire Department members pump flood waters brought by megastorm Sandy to Long Island Avenue in Sag Harbor. (Oct. 30, 2012)

A tree toppled by storm winds lies across the roof of a house on Kildare Road in Garden City on Oct. 30, 2012.

Firefighters wade Monday through flooded streets at Main Street and Degnon Boulevard in Islip. (Oct. 30, 2012)

A sailboat brought in Monday night by the storm surge from megastorm Sandy sits beached Tuesday on West Shore Road in Oyster Bay. (Oct. 30, 2012)

Winds from megastorm Sandy uprooted a tree Monday night on Lenox Drive in West Hempsteady. (Oct. 30, 2012)

Homeowners who find damage to their property from Sandy are advised to take these steps insurance experts say: Call insurance brokers or companies, photograph and list the damage and read policies for any deductibles or exclusions. This tree came down on a house and car on Conklin Lane in Huntington. (Oct.30, 2012)

The railroad crossing gate on Eagle Avenue in West Hempstead wasn't working Tuesday morning. It was broken Monday night during megastorm Sandy. (Oct. 30, 2012)

Winds from Sandy took down a sign Monday near Exit 65, Horse Block Road, in the eastbound lanes of the Long Island Expressway. As the storm closed in residents in low lying areas took shelter, some in hotels across the Island that were booked to near capacity. (Oct. 29, 2012)

Left, a satellite image of Hurricane Irene off the East Coast of the United States. Right, a satellite image of Hurricane Sandy. Both shown at same scale. (Aug. 27, 2011; Oct. 27, 2012)

A friend pushes John Greeny, 23, of Port Jefferson, on a homemade windsurfer in a parking lot in Port Jefferson during Hurricane Sandy. (Oct. 29, 2012)

A trampoline was launched into the power lines by Hurricane Sandy and suspended on Norman Drive in Bohemia for about two hours until authorities removed it. (Oct. 29, 2012)

National Grid workers check gas lines in front of flooded home on Prospect Street in Babylon Village.(Oct. 29, 2012)

The playground at Ransom Beach in Bayville is submerged as Hurricane Sandy pummels the North Shore of Long Island. (Oct. 29, 2012)

A tree falls on a BMW on Scudder Avenue in Northport, a portion of which is without power. (Oct. 29, 2012)

A wall of water comes into Rockaway Beach, Queens during Hurricane Sandy. (Oct. 29, 2012)

Firefighters rescue a family with a boat after they were trapped in their South Bay Street home in Lindenhurst. The couple, along with their son, and two dogs were rescued. (Oct. 29, 2012)

Ted Morfis and his granddaughter, Kendall Morfis, 12, take a row boat out on the flooded Creek Road in Bayville (Oct. 29, 2012)

Ted Morfis and his granddaughter Kendall Morfis, 12, take a row boat out on the flooded Creek Road during superstorm Sandy in Bayville. (Oct. 29, 2012)

Downed trees and utility poles block Horton Highway in Mineola, New York. (Oct. 29, 2012)

This house on Blue Point Road off Birch Avenue in Farmingville sustained substantial damage after a tree crashed through the roof. (Oct. 29, 2012)

People make their way through a flooded Browns River Road in Sayville during Hurricane Sandy. (Oct. 29, 2012)

Homeowners hunker down for Hurricane Sandy along Browns River Road in Sayville. (Oct. 29, 2012)

1st Street in New Suffolk is flooded by Sandy. (Oct. 29, 2012)

Lauren, 10, and Nicholas Spampinato, 5, from Bayville, play on a flooded section of Creek Road in Bayville during Hurricane Sandy. (Oct. 29, 2012)

Homes in Cutchogue flooded by hurricane Sandy. (Oct. 29, 2012)

Homes by Southold Town Beach in Southold, get pounded by Hurricane Sandy. (Oct. 29, 2012)

The NOAA satellite image shows Hurricane Sandy moving up the coastline at 12:15pm EDT. (Oct. 29, 2012)

Napeague Meadow Road is covered by flood waters from Napeague Harbor caused by Hurricane Sandy in Amagansett (Oct. 29, 2012)

Evonne Bolanos of Bayville carries her dog Roxy through a flooded section of Bayville Avenue during Hurricane Sandy in Bayville. (Oct. 29, 2012)

A large tree dangerously rests on power lines on a flooded section of Bayville Avenue during Hurricane Sandy in Bayville. (Oct. 29, 2012)

Spectators check out the flooding on Main Street in Port Jefferson at high tide during superstorm Sandy. (Oct. 29, 2012)

A tree down on Brixton Road near Stewart Avenue in Garden City from superstorm Sandy. (Oct. 29, 2012)

A resident makes his way through a flooded zone in Island Park. (Oct. 29, 2012)

An Island Park resident is rescued by members of the Atlantic Beach Rescue Dept. (Oct. 29, 2012)

A tree fell on a house on Harvard Street near New Hyde Park Road in Garden City. (Oct. 29, 2012)

On the boardwalk, Alison Kallelis of Long Beach watches the storm approach. (Oct. 29, 2012)

An Island Park resident makes her way through a flooded zone in Island Park. (Oct. 29, 2012)

Members of the Atlantic Beach Rescue Dept. pick up a stranded pedestrian in Island Park. (Oct. 29, 2012)

Dennis Kohuk of Greenport stands on a water-drenched dock in Greenport Harbor before high tide. (Oct. 29, 2012)

Waves at Cedar Beach before high tide in Southold. (Oct. 29, 2012)

Water about 3 feet deep in Moriches Bay floods the intersection of South Ocean Avenue and Inlet View Road in Center Moriches as Hurricane Sandy approaches. (Oct. 29, 2012)

Members of the FDNY respond to a downed light pole on FDR Drive in lower Manhattan as Hurricane Sandy approaches New York City. (Oct. 29, 2012)

Water from Moriches Bay floods South Ocean Avenue and Inlet View Road in Center Moriches as superstorm Sandy approaches on Oct. 29, 2012.

Moriches Bay floods at the intersection of South Ocean Avenue and Inlet View Road in Center Moriches as Hurricane Sandy approaches. (Oct. 29, 2012)

Pedestrians navigate through a flooded streets in Freeport. (Oct. 29, 2012)

Pedestrians try to navigate through the water at the intersection of Miller Avenue and Front Street in Freeport. (Oct. 29, 2012)

Waves from Long Island Sound, roiled by Hurricane Sandy, come over the breakwater Monday morning along Asharoken Avenue between Northport and Eatons Neck. (Oct. 29, 2012)

A large tree blocks the westbound Sunrise Highway near County Line Road in Amityville after it fell across the roadway around 8:10 a.m., striking a vehicle. The occupants inside the car were injured, and their vehicle sustained minor damage. (Oct. 29, 2012)

A roadway in front of the Suffolk Marine Center is flooded along Willow Street in Babylon Village around 7:25 a.m. Monday. (Oct. 29, 2012)

Water begins to rise on West Shore Road and Brown Place in Lindenhurst about 9 p.m. Sunday. (Oct. 28, 2012)

New York City Police Department officers cordon off a subway entrance at Broadway and 72nd Street in Manhattan due to closure. (Oct. 28, 2012)

NYPD officers go door to door in the Rockaway Beach neighborhood of Queens to take note of which residents are ignoring the mandatory evacuation order. (Oct. 28, 2012)

Bridget Donnelly walks on a sandbag wall outside her home in the Rockaway Beach neighborhood of Queens, as Hurricane Sandy approaches Long Island. (Oct. 28, 2012)

Police close off the Robert Moses bridge in preparation for Hurricane Sandy. (Oct. 28, 2012)

A surfer at Long beach catches a large wave caused by the approaching Hurricane Sandy. (Oct. 28, 2012)

Ramone Rosas carries plywood for boarding storefronts in Westhampton Beach. (Oct. 28, 2012)

Bread shelves at Waldbaum's in Greenlawn. (Oct. 28, 2012)

Trio Hardware in Plainview was packed as people bought items such as flashlights and batteries in preparation for Hurricane Sandy. (Oct. 28, 2012)

John Bretschneider of Melville bought flashlights, batteries, and duck tape at Trio Hardware in Plainview Sunday while preparing for Hurricane Sandy. (October 28, 2012) Photo by Barry Sloan

People line up to buy propane ahead of Hurricane Sandy at an Ace Hardware in Nesconset. (Oct. 28, 2012)

Nassau Executive Edward Mangano, Governor Andrew Cuomo and Suffolk Executive Steve Bellone give an update on Hurricane Sandy at the Morrelly Homeland Security Center in Bethpage. (Oct. 28, 2012)

At left, John Basler, 57, of Babylon, cranks a line tied to a boat carrying Michael Kienle, 32, of Babylon, in order to secure it to a trailer. They are taking the boat out of Babylon Cove at the docks next to the Babylon Village Pool in Babylon in preparation for Hurricane Sandy. (Oct. 27, 2012)

Sandbags are piled in front of homes on West Broadway in Long Beachin preparation for Hurricane Sandy. (Oct. 27, 2012)

Frank Forcinom, 50, of Long Beach, helps his friend Patrick Flynn, 55, board up his Long Beach home in preparation for Hurricane Sandy. (Oct. 27, 2012)

Manoli Miningham, 65, of Long Beach, along with her granddaughter Loren Widing, 9, fill sandbags at the beach near Laurelton Boulevard in Long Beach, in preparation for Hurricane Sandy. (Oct. 27, 2012)

Edward Ogonowski stocks up on bottled water at the Stop & Shop Supermarket in Levittown in preparation for Hurricane Sandy. (Oct. 27, 2012)

Long Beach city employees prepare for the coming storm. They're building berms by moving sand with heavy equipment to try to prevent rising water from reaching buildings and streets of Long Beach. (Oct. 26, 2012)

Long Beach City employees prepare for the upcoming storm. Local CSEA members are building burrs by moving sand with heavy equipment to try and prevent rising water from hitting buildings and streets of Long Beach. (Oct. 26, 2012)