US superstorm threat looms

Residents, including a child, are rescued by emergency personnel from flood waters brought on by Hurricane Sandy in Little Ferry, New Jersey.

Residents of Rockaways, New York, survey the devastation caused by a fire which broke out during Hurricane Sandy.

Water pushed up by Hurricane Sandy splashes into the window of a building standing by the shore in Bellport, New York.

Residents walk along Broadway Avenue as they inspect damage from Hurricane Sandy in Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey.

The Bounty replica is submerged off the US's East Coast.

Damage along the shoreline caused by Hurricane Sandy in Milford, Connecticut.

A New York carpark is submerged.

Floodwaters from super storm Sandy rush into the Port Authority Trans-Hudson's Hoboken, New Jersey station through an elevator shaft.

Fire and rescue crews lead a boat of power workers through flood waters after their power station was over run by flood waters in New York.

A deluge of water floods the Battery Tunnel in Manhattan.

A man stands in front of a flooded building in Manhattan.

Floodwaters surround a car parked on a street in Hoboken, New Jersey.

Fire fighters gather in front of a partially collapsed four-storey apartment building in Manhattan. The building's facade collapsed after high winds hit New York City.

A local resident navigates the flooded streets of Brooklyn.

A construction vehicle drives through the flooded streets of Brooklyn, New York.

Storm surf kicked up by the high winds from Hurricane Sandy floods through a home in Southampton, New York.

Young boys play video games while in the sleeping area of a Red Cross shelter in Hampton Bays, New York.

A driver stops to watch storm surf kicked up by the high winds from Hurricane Sandy in Southampton, New York.

A man walks into the wind across the Hudson River from the skyline of New York in Hoboken, New Jersey.

Kiwi Dave Turner, who's studying at Harvard, took this photo of some of the storm damage in his street in Cambridge.

Kiwi Dave Turner said the tree took out power to his street. He said it was pretty wet and windy in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the moment, just "like Wellington on a bad day".

Men try to save a boat which became unmoored and washed up on shore due to high winds from Hurricane Sandy in Scituate, Massachusetts.

Streets are deserted as Hurricane Sandy comes ashore in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.

Siding was ripped off of this house in high winds from Hurricane Sandy in Scituate, Massachusetts.

A crane hangs from a building after being damaged in winds from Hurricane Sandy in New York.

A wall of water batters what remains of the fishing pier in Ocean City, Maryland as Hurricane Sandy intensifies.

Two boys run down Foster Avenue while dodging high winds and waves from the effects of Hurricane Sandy in Marshfield, Massachusetts.

A marina floods onto the road as Hurricane Sandy hits Ocean City, Maryland.

Bracing against the wind, a man wades through a street flooded during Hurricane Sandy in Ocean City, Maryland.

A truck drives through water pushed over a road by Hurricane Sandy in Southampton, New York.

US Route 30, the White Horse Pike, one of three major approaches to Atlantic City, New Jersey, is covered with water from Absecon Bay in this view looking west, during the approach of Hurricane Sandy.

An Army vehicle makes its way down a flooded street in Ocean City, Maryland, as Hurricane Sandy intensifies.

A wave crashes over the protecting sandbags in front of the houses on the east side of Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina. The area has been ravaged by several storms over the years and has suffered severe erosions problems.