Photos: 6 MILLION without power + 16 dead as Superstorm Sandy throws a 13 foot wall of water at US coast

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Flood water rushes into a below-ground carpark in New York's Financial DistrictSkyline: Brooklyn Bridge Park pictured here after it flooded following the arrival of Sandy, which has made landfall on the East Coast of the US
Flooding: Water rushes into the Carey Tunnel (previously the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel), caused by Sandy on Monday night in the financial district of New YorkNo movement: Vehicles are submerged on 14th Street near the Consolidated Edison power plant on Monday in Manhattan, New York
New york’s longest night, after a night of being battered by Superstorm Sandy, the US’s largest ever storm, left the areas looking like the set of a disaster movie. It hit the mainland at 6.30pm local time last night having laid waste to large parts of the coast during the day. The US city shut its mass transit system, schools, the stock exchange and Broadway, and ordered hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers to leave home to get out of the way as Sandy zeroed in. 
Sixteen deaths were reported in New Jersey, New York, Maryland, North Carolina, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Connecticut.Among the dead in New York were two children killed instantly by a falling tree in Westchester County, a woman electrocuted to death by falling wires in Manhattan and a 29-year-old man killed in a car crash in Queens. A 30-year-old man was also killed when a tree fell on his house in Flushing, Queens.

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Underwater: A vehicle is submerged on 14th Street near the Consolidated Edison power plant on Monday night in New York
Flood waters have overwhelmed the entrance of the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel as nearly all bridges and tunnels into and out of New York are closed to the public
No driving: An underground car park with upturned vehicles, filled with floodwater from Superstorm Sandy
Above waist high: A man wearing a snorkel is seen wading through the water in New York City on Monday night
Submerged: Instagram user 'Jesse and Greg' posted this incredible picture of East Village flooding in Manhattan, New York
Sailboats rock in choppy water at a dock along the Hudson River Greenway as one thousand more troops have been drafted in