Sandy in Pictures

RVA has largely lucked out of the storm, though our Fells Point & DC location is in a staring contest with Sandy now. Good luck to all our friends and family across our eastern shore. Here are some photos from this morning many hours before Sandy arrived…

-Sandbags line the entrance to the Bowling Green Subway Station in New York City. (Photo: LennyWiggins/MTA New York City Transit)

Waves wash over the seawall near high tide at Battery Park in New York, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, as Hurricane Sandy approaches the East Coast.

A stranded car sits parked along a street near downtown Norfolk, Va., Monday, Oct. 29, 2012. Rain and wind from Hurricane Sandy are hitting the area.

Battery Tunnel lies empty on Monday, Oct. 29 as Hurricane Sandy begins its assault on New York. (Photo: Lenny Wiggins/MTA New York City Transit)

Sandbags and plywood lie on the rails of the Lenox Terminal at 149th St. (Photo: Lenny Wiggins/MTA New York City Transit)

Sandy creates flooding along Beers Street and West front Street in Keyport, N.J. Facebook/Jessica Bame Aumack

Snow falls Monday morning, October 29, 2012 in Grandview, W.V. iWitness/Plantingrichard

High tide brings water into the Chelsea and Ventor Heights neighborhoods in Atlantic City, N.J. iWitness/rc84

Mark Palazzolo, owner of a bait and tackle shop on the Manasquan Inlet in Point Pleasant Beach, N.J., sits next to wood he has used to board up his business in previous major storms, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012, in Point Pleasant Beach, N.J

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