Photos From Superstorm Sandy's Destructive Wake

A man walks past cottages damaged by Sandy on Roy Carpenter's Beach in the village of Matunuck, in South Kingstown, R.I.

Lauren Sinnott walks her dog, Becca, in a flooded street in downtown Annapolis, Md.

People work to free a car stuck in beach sand deposited during high tide in Milford, Conn.

President Barack Obama visits the Red Cross Disaster Operation Center in Washington. He has declared New York and New Jersey "federal disaster areas."

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney holds bags of food as he participates in a campaign event collecting supplies for victims of Sandy at the James S. Trent Arena in Kettering, Ohio.

Reece Hiner, 11, looks at a destroyed home in Pasadena, Md., where the homeowner was killed overnight when a tree fell on his home during Sandy.

Phil Potvin climbs into position to cut a white pine after the tree toppled onto his father's home during Sandy in Scarborough, Maine.

A fallen tree damaged a car and blocks a street on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Tuesday. Washington escaped significant damage from Sandy, but tens of thousands of residents experienced power outages.

Waves pound a lighthouse on the shores of Lake Erie, near Cleveland. High winds spinning off the edge of Sandy took a vicious swipe at northeast Ohio, uprooting trees, cutting power to hundreds of thousands, forcing school closures and flooding parts of major commuter arteries that run along the lake.

A crewman works on grounding power lines damaged when a large tree was blown down in Falls Church, Va.

Onlookers take photos as strong waves created by Sandy crash against the Lake Michigan waterfront on the South Side of Chicago, Ill.

Snowplows open Interstate 68 in Garrett County, Md.

A person walks through snow in Belington, W.Va. Sandy buried parts of the state under more than a foot of snow, cutting power to at least 264,000 customers. Authorities closed nearly 50 miles of interstate.