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Scott Armstrong uses a backhoe to do some tree trimming on Rt. 612 in Mossy, W.Va. Tuesday after superstorm Sandy dumped 2 feet of snow in parts of the West Virginia mountains by Tuesday afternoon. Drifts 4 feet deep were reported at Great Smoky Mountains National Park on the Tennessee-North Carolina border. TOM HINDMAN/AP Photo/Charleston Daily Mail

New videos and photos: Hurricane Sandy aftermath on the East Coast
Published: 10/31/2012 11:40 AM
Last Modified: 11/2/2012 11:39 AM

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

PS: If you are interested in donating to help Sandy victims, our own Action Line reporter Phil Mulkin has mailing addresses, phone numbers, websites and more of trustworthy charities helping the cause. You can read more on ways to help here. Also, he talks about ways to avoid Sandy charity scams here.

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

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2	59°	24°	0	0.00	0.11
3	57°	33°	0	0.00	0.16
4	68°	37°	Trace	0.00	0.21
5	69°	29°	0	0.00	0.26
6	66°	33°	0	0.00	0.32
7	59°	38°	0.05	0.05	0.38
8	51°	34°	0	0.05	0.44
9	44°	36°	0.01	0.06	0.51
10	62°	37°	0.07	0.13	0.57
11	54°	28°	0	0.13	0.64
12	44°	30°	0.25	0.38	0.70
13	55°	40°	0.01	0.39	0.76
14	°	°			0.83
15	°	°			0.89
16	°	°			0.95
17	°	°			1.02
18	°	°			1.09
19	°	°			1.16
20	°	°			1.23
21	°	°			1.31
22	°	°			1.38
23	°	°			1.46
24	°	°			1.53
25	°	°			1.61
26	°	°			1.69
27	°	°			1.77
28	°	°			1.85

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Staff Writer Althea Peterson started writing for the Tulsa World in March 2007 after previous stops at the Norman Transcript in 2006 and the Oklahoma Gazette in 2005. She followed her older brother from rural Wisconsin (with a public school that never seemed to call snow days) to the University of Oklahoma, but did not follow his pursuit to study meteorology. However, she tries to find as many opportunities to report on the weather as possible.

Staff Writer Jerry Wofford came to the Tulsa World in 2010 from The Manhattan Mercury in Manhattan, Kan. Originally from western Arkansas and a graduate of the University of Oklahoma, Jerry has lived in Tornado Alley his entire life and is one of those people who goes outside when the sirens go off.

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