Sandy's first raindrops on a window at the Ferren Parking Deck in New Brunswick.
Kayakers paddle past a utility truck in South River during the hours prior to the landfall of Hurricane Sandy.
Edison firefighters battle an early-morning house fire with live wires down, shortly after Hurricane Sandy struck.
A Perth Amboy firefighter walks near the badly damaged waterfront.
Front street in Perth Amboy is littered with debris and boats.
A Perth Amboy firefighter works along the city's battered waterfront.
Perth Amboy mayor Wilda Diaz speaks to residents after touring the devastated waterfront.
Seven utility poles snapped along southbound Rt 130.
Route 1 is closed in both directions between Major Rd and Beekman Rd due to snapped utility poles.
Customers wait for gas in North Brunswick.
Volunteer Jennifer Zappola hugs flood victim Dorris Emmons at an emergency assistance center in Sayreville stocked with donated food, cleaning supplies and even furniture.
Lt Tracie Asbill, a United States Public Health Services nurse from Tahlequah, OK, speaks with patient Diane Olsen of Port Reading in a shelter at Middlesex County College.
A pair of fallen trees badly damaged a Forsgate Drive home in Jamesburg.
Sandy's winds mangled the facade of an Avenue clothing store on Routes 1&9 in Woodbridge.
Troy Matikonis of South Amboy walks past a beached sailboat with his wife Karen and four-year-old daughter Paige.
South Amboy resident George Forrer surveys the damage to his Cadillac, which floated from his driveway to the backyard of his Rosewell Street home during the Hurricane Sandy storm surge.
Clean-up begins along the Perth Amboy waterfront.
A sign on the front of George Bonilla's Front Street home reads: We Survived Sandy God Bless America. Bonilla's home was badly damaged during the storm, and badly looted the following night.
Raritan Bay Yacht Club member Alan Uminski, of Raritan, surveys the wreckage of his 29ft sailboat.
A destroyed home at the intersection of Augusta St and Rosewell in South Amboy.
Kathleen Van Norman of Brick, holds her 7-year-old son Nate during Sunday Mass at the Church of St. Rose in Belmar.
Cindy Cama of Belmar, center, and Bea Dunn of Shark River Hills, right, are among the parishioners packed in to Sunday Mass at the Church of St. Rose.
Parishioners hold hands during Sunday Mass at the Church of St. Rose.
