*IN FLORA LYIMO FASHION POLICE BLOG* OMG!! GOD BLESS AMERICA " POLENI SANA WALE WOTE MLOKUMBWA NA KIMBUNGA HIKI "FORTY-EIGHT DEAD...and it's NOT over: Obama's grim warning as he prepares to visit scenes of hurricane 'major disaster' TOMORROW!!

 

Eye of the storm: New York was among the hardest hit by Superstorm Sandy. A fire broke out in Breezy Point, Queens, destroying between 80 and 100 houses"

 

Battle: More than 190 firefighters have contained the six-alarm blaze fire in the Breezy Point section, but they are still putting out some pockets of fire"

Washed up: A resident pushes a bicycle down a street covered in beach sand due to flooding from Superstorm Sandy in Long Beach, New York"

Destruction: Cars floating after being pushed out a flooded basement in the city during last night's battering"

Beached: A 168-foot water tanker, the John B. Caddell, sits on the shore where it ran aground on Front Street in the Stapleton neighborhood of New York's Staten Island"

Fleet in the floods: Yellow cabs in a parking lot are surrounded by water after Superstorm Sandy struck Hoboken, New Jersey"

Wrecked: A man looks at an uprooted tree which fell on a car when Superstorm Sandy swept through the Brooklyn borough of New York"

Uprooted: A fallen tree at Cooper Square in the East Village, New York, after Superstorm Sandy battered the city"

Something in the way: A fallen tree blocks a street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in the wake of Hurricane Sandy"

Torrent: Cars on Avenue C and 7th Street are submerged in floodwater which flowed through the city after Superstorm Sandy arrived"

Left behind: An umbrella lies abandoned in the dirt on a Manhattan street hours after Superstorm Sandy swept through New York"

Overblown: A lighting shop in New York is closed after the storm. Strong winds brought down part of a banner which had advertised the business's 'blow-out sale'

Understatement: A Whole Foods store in New York informs its customers that it is closed 'due to inclement weather'

Mopping up: Shop owner Amanda Zink begins the arduous task of cleaning her store The Salty Paw, which was completely flooded on the waterfront of lower Manhattan"

Dangerous: A cordon is put up around scaffolding which collapsed in New York after Superstorm Sandy caused widespread damage in the city"
The scale of the devastation left by Superstorm Sandy is mounting today as the death toll continues to rise - currently 48 people across the US and Canada have been reported dead, but the final figure is expected to be significantly higher.
President Obama declared a 'major disaster' in New York and Long Island as flooded streets were littered with cars, homes were razed to the ground and tankers washed up on shore.
The President warned that Sandy 'is not yet over' and announced that he would visit New Jersey on Wednesday to visit the scenes of the destruction.
Hundreds of thousands of people are without power in New York and the transit system, schools, the stock exchange and Broadway are all out of action after a 13ft wall of water caused by the storm surge and high tides brought severe flooding to subways and road tunnels.
Sandy, one of the biggest storms to ever descend on the country, hit the mainland at 6.30pm local time yesterday having laid waste to large parts of the coast during the day.
The storm that made landfall in New Jersey on Monday evening with 80mph sustained winds, cut power to more than 7.4 million homes and businesses from the Carolinas to Ohio, caused scares at two nuclear plants and stopped the preside"