After Hurricane Sandy had done its worst, more than 8 million residents along the East Coast and other affected states were without power, according to the U.S. Dept. of Energy’s Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability.
For the hardest-hit states—New York and New Jersey, it was one of the worst hurricanes on record, darkening the New York City skyline and causing substations to shut down from surging water or storm-induced fire.