Photo gallery: Hurricane Sandy heads for US after killing 59 in Caribbean
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Across the eastern United States, Americans made frantic preparations on Saturday for a possible superstorm as Hurricane Sandy lumbered north after leaving 59 people dead in the Caribbean. -- PHOTO: AP
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A man leans on a fallen tree on a street after Hurricane Sandy passed through in Santiago de Cuba on Oct 27, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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Robert Shepanski of Cape May, New Jersey boards up a home in preparation for Hurricane Sandy on Oct 27, 2012 in Cape May, New Jersey. -- PHOTO: AFP
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Store workers finish boarding up the windows on a surf store in Ocean City on Saturday, Oct 27, 2012, as Hurricane Sandy approaches the Atlantic coast. -- PHOTO: AP
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A store manager boards up the windows of the business as Hurricane Sandy approaches in Ocean City on Saturday, Oct 27, 2012. -- PHOTO: AP
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Two 305th Operations Support Squadron airfield operations officers prepare low-lying areas with sandbags in preparation for Hurricane Sandy at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, in this Oct 26, 2012 handout photo. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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A wave crashes over the protective sandbags in front of the houses on the east side of Ocean Isle Beach during Hurricane Sandy in Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina on Oct 27, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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A man walks beside a vegetable plantation destroyed after Hurricane Sandy in Santiago de Cuba on Oct 27, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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A man salvages bricks from rubble on a street after Hurricane Sandy in Santiago de Cuba on Oct 27, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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People are framed through a window as they looks out to the Atlantic Ocean as the town prepares for Hurricane Sandy Oct 27, 2012 in Cape May, New Jersey. -- PHOTO: AFP
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Bruce Bieber of Cape May, New Jersey boards up a pizza shop in preparation for Hurricane Sandy Oct 27, 2012 in Cape May, New Jersey. -- PHOTO: AFP
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A woman living in a tent city in Port-au-Prince cleans up one day after hurricane Sandy passed through Haiti on Oct 27, 2012. -- PHOTO: AFP
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A man paddleboards before the storm as Hurricane Sandy approaches on Oct 27, 2012 in Long Beach, New York. -- PHOTO: AFP
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Big waves break near the Sunset Beach pier as Hurricane Sandy passes the coast of North Carolina, on Sunset Beach Oct 27, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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Beachgoers walk in the wind and rain as waves generated by Hurricane Sandy crash into Jeanette's Pier in Nags Head, N.C., Saturday, Oct 27, 2012 as the storm churns up the east coast. -- PHOTO: AP
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Huge waves crash as onlookers peer from Jeanette's Pier in Nags Head, N.C., as Hurricane Sandy churns up the east coast Saturday, Oct 27, 2012. -- PHOTO: AP
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This NOAA satellite image taken Saturday, Oct 27, 2012 at 10.45am EDT shows Hurricane Sandy along the eastern United States coastline tracking northward with maximum sustained winds of 120kmh. -- PHOTO: AP
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Subway riders walk past a warning sign about potential service changes as they enter the Bowling Green station in New York Oct 27, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Across the eastern United States, Americans made frantic preparations on Saturday for a possible superstorm as Hurricane Sandy lumbered north after leaving 59 people dead in the Caribbean. -- PHOTO: AP
A man leans on a fallen tree on a street after Hurricane Sandy passed through in Santiago de Cuba on Oct 27, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Robert Shepanski of Cape May, New Jersey boards up a home in preparation for Hurricane Sandy on Oct 27, 2012 in Cape May, New Jersey. -- PHOTO: AFP
Store workers finish boarding up the windows on a surf store in Ocean City on Saturday, Oct 27, 2012, as Hurricane Sandy approaches the Atlantic coast. -- PHOTO: AP
A store manager boards up the windows of the business as Hurricane Sandy approaches in Ocean City on Saturday, Oct 27, 2012. -- PHOTO: AP
Two 305th Operations Support Squadron airfield operations officers prepare low-lying areas with sandbags in preparation for Hurricane Sandy at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, in this Oct 26, 2012 handout photo. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A wave crashes over the protective sandbags in front of the houses on the east side of Ocean Isle Beach during Hurricane Sandy in Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina on Oct 27, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A man walks beside a vegetable plantation destroyed after Hurricane Sandy in Santiago de Cuba on Oct 27, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A man salvages bricks from rubble on a street after Hurricane Sandy in Santiago de Cuba on Oct 27, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
People are framed through a window as they looks out to the Atlantic Ocean as the town prepares for Hurricane Sandy Oct 27, 2012 in Cape May, New Jersey. -- PHOTO: AFP
Bruce Bieber of Cape May, New Jersey boards up a pizza shop in preparation for Hurricane Sandy Oct 27, 2012 in Cape May, New Jersey. -- PHOTO: AFP
A woman living in a tent city in Port-au-Prince cleans up one day after hurricane Sandy passed through Haiti on Oct 27, 2012. -- PHOTO: AFP
A man paddleboards before the storm as Hurricane Sandy approaches on Oct 27, 2012 in Long Beach, New York. -- PHOTO: AFP
Big waves break near the Sunset Beach pier as Hurricane Sandy passes the coast of North Carolina, on Sunset Beach Oct 27, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Beachgoers walk in the wind and rain as waves generated by Hurricane Sandy crash into Jeanette's Pier in Nags Head, N.C., Saturday, Oct 27, 2012 as the storm churns up the east coast. -- PHOTO: AP
Huge waves crash as onlookers peer from Jeanette's Pier in Nags Head, N.C., as Hurricane Sandy churns up the east coast Saturday, Oct 27, 2012. -- PHOTO: AP
This NOAA satellite image taken Saturday, Oct 27, 2012 at 10.45am EDT shows Hurricane Sandy along the eastern United States coastline tracking northward with maximum sustained winds of 120kmh. -- PHOTO: AP
Subway riders walk past a warning sign about potential service changes as they enter the Bowling Green station in New York Oct 27, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
MIAMI (AFP) - Across the eastern United States, Americans made frantic preparations on Saturday for a possible superstorm as Hurricane Sandy lumbered north after leaving 59 people dead in the Caribbean.
The so-called "Frankenstorm" was expected to make landfall somewhere between Virginia and Massachusetts early Tuesday, hitting during the frenzied final week of campaigning before the US elections on Nov 6.
