The storm devastated communities up and down the east coast of the United States. It is blamed for causing more than 100 deaths and an estimated $65 billion in damages.
A Year Since Superstorm Sandy
![Photographer Larry Racioppo's album is part of "Rising Waters," an exhibit of 200 photographs taken after Superstorm Sandy in New York, Long Island and New Jersey.](https://gdb.voanews.com/ab2c5dbc-75db-4c31-83a1-42fd6dee2144_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Photographer Larry Racioppo's album is part of "Rising Waters," an exhibit of 200 photographs taken after Superstorm Sandy in New York, Long Island and New Jersey.
![People line up along the beach in Belle Harbor during the "Rockaway Rising: Hands Across the Sand," commemoratation of the one year anniversary of Superstorm Sandy, Oct. 27, 2013, in New York.](https://gdb.voanews.com/f32c44df-fccc-44cd-80d9-1d93907b2947_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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People line up along the beach in Belle Harbor during the "Rockaway Rising: Hands Across the Sand," commemoratation of the one year anniversary of Superstorm Sandy, Oct. 27, 2013, in New York.
![Pedestrians walk past the boardwalk and cars displaced by Superstorm Sandy, near Rockaway Beach, Queens, New York, Oct. 30, 2012.](https://gdb.voanews.com/2baf5282-a200-4d38-84e2-b3e810109963_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Pedestrians walk past the boardwalk and cars displaced by Superstorm Sandy, near Rockaway Beach, Queens, New York, Oct. 30, 2012.
![This photo made available by the New Jersey Governor's Office shows flooding and damage in Seaside, N.J. on Oct. 30, 2012.](https://gdb.voanews.com/c4c5899e-b698-422b-a3cf-812bb2168f23_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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This photo made available by the New Jersey Governor's Office shows flooding and damage in Seaside, N.J. on Oct. 30, 2012.