Note: This is the third photos/videos entry in the Weather World blog. For more photos and videos and information on Hurricane Sandy, check out other entries here.
Two major airports reopened and the floor of the New York Stock Exchange came back to life Wednesday, while across the river in New Jersey, National Guardsmen rushed to rescue flood victims and fires still raged two days after Superstorm Sandy, the Associated Press reports.
Here are more videos and photos of the storm's aftermath.
--Althea Peterson
Sandy Leaves Boats Piled on Staten Island
Coast Guard Surveys Sandy Floods
Connecticut Governor: "We're Making Real Progress"
New York Mayor Bloomberg Rings Opening Bell at NYSE
After Sandy, New Yorkers Head Back to Work
NYPD Rescues Storm Victims From Rooftop
Fire Breaks Out in Storm-damaged New Jersey Town
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A front end loader works around abandon cars to clear Ocean Avenue in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy on Wednesday, in Coney Island, in the Brooklyn borough of N.Y. BEBETO MATTHEWS/AP Photo
This image provided by the Virginia State Police shows the Potomac river flooding along Evergreen Watson Road in Loudon County Va., Tuesday . People in the coastal corridor battered by superstorm Sandy took the first cautious steps Wednesday to reclaim routines upended by the disaster, even as rescuers combed neighborhoods strewn with debris and scarred by floods and fire. AP Photo/Virginia State Police
Letter carrier Dawn Greco wades in the water to deliver the mail after superstorm Sandy, Wednesday in Crisfield, Md. ALEX BRANDON/AP Photo
A woman walks around a fallen tree and light pole blocking the sidewalk in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy, Wednesday in downtown Cleveland. TONY DEJAK/AP Photo
This Tuesday photo provided by the U.S. Air Force shows an aerial view of the roller coaster from the Seaside Heights amusement park on the New Jersey shore submerged in surf, taken during a search and rescue mission by 1-150 Assault Helicopter Battalion, New Jersey Army National Guard. By late Tuesday, the winds and flooding inflicted by the fast-weakening superstorm Sandy had subsided, leaving at least 55 people dead along the Atlantic Coast and splintering beachfront homes and boardwalks from the mid-Atlantic states to southern New England. AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, Master Sgt. Mark C. Olsen
Vihaan Gadodia, 2, is handed from a National Guard truck after he and his family left a flooded building in Hoboken, N.J., Wednesday, in the wake of superstorm Sandy. Some residents are being plucked from their homes by large trucks as parts of the city are still covered in standing water. CRAIG RUTTLE/AP Photo
Kim Johnson looks over the destruction near her seaside apartment in Atlantic City, N.J., Tuesday. The storm, which made landfall Monday evening, caused multiple fatalities, halted mass transit and cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses. SETH WENIG/AP Photo
In a photo made available by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Tuesday trees are down on tracks south of Metro North Railroad's Cold Springs station, in New York as a result of superstorm Sandy. AP Photo/Metropolitan Transportation Authority
In a photo made available by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Tuesday floodwaters stream into the Long Island Rail Road's West Side Yard in New York during superstorm Sandy. All trains had been removed from the yard prior to the arrival of the storm. AP Photo/Metropolitan Transportation Authority
On a National Guard truck, Ali LaPointe, of Hoboken, N.J., hands her daughter Eliza Skye LaPointe, 18-months-old, to Hoboken firefighters, Wednesday, in Hoboken, N.J., in the wake of superstorm Sandy. Some residents are being plucked from their homes by large trucks as parts of the city are still covered in standing water. CRAIG RUTTLE/AP Photo
