Comparisons to katrina were inevitable as Hurricane Sandy tore across the Eastern Seaboard. Eyewitnesses documented the storm's effects via Twitter and Instagram, as schools and stock markets were closed, communities were evacuated, nearly 8 million were left without electricity, some 16,000 nights were canceled, an estimated $20 billion in property was damaged or destroyed, and dozens of people died, including the captain of the HMS Bounty, who went down with his ship off Cape Hatteras, N.C.
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