高樓低廈,人潮起伏,
名爭利逐,千萬家悲歡離合。

閑雲偶過,新月初現,
燈耀海城,天地間留我孤獨。

舊史再提,故書重讀,
冷眼閑眺,關山未變寂寞!

念人老江湖,心碎家國,
百年瞬息,得失滄海一粟!

徐訏《新年偶感》

2012年10月30日星期二

Superstorm Sandy hits New York - in pictures

Seawater floods the Ground Zero construction site

People take photos on a flooded street during a blackout in Chelsea

Paramedics evacuate patients from New York University Tisch Hospital due to a power outage.

Firefighters attempt to remove a partially collapsed shutter

Power outage in Manhattan

Rising water rushes into an underground parking garage in the financial district

A woman in a bathrobe jumps into a puddle in Times Square

Lights from an NYPD police vehicle illuminate a fallen tree on 6th Avenue

Firefighters evaluate the scene at an apartment building where the front wall collapsed

A police officer patrols a neighbourhood hit by a power cut in Lower Manhattan

Pedestrians walk past a submerged taxi in Brooklyn

Water rushes into the Carey Tunnel (previously the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel) in the financial district

A blacked-out New York City skyline