Dive Summary:

• New York and New Jersey took the brunt of Hurricane Sandy's damaging weather Monday and Tuesday as the U.S. death toll hit 39 and 8.2 million customers were left without power.
• N.J. Gov. Chris Christie called the damage his state endured "some of the worst we’ve ever seen" and the costs "incalculable" after 80-mile-per-hour winds and flooding engulfed the Jersey Shore.
• The forecasting firm IHS Global Insight estimated that Sandy caused $20 billion in property damage and resulted in $10 billion to $30 billion more in lost business.

From the article:

Millions of people from Maine to the Carolinas awoke Tuesday without electricity, and an eerily quiet New York City was all but closed off by car, train and air as superstorm Sandy steamed inland, still delivering punishing wind and rain. The U.S. death toll climbed to 39, many of the victims killed by falling trees. ...