Superstorm Sandy slammed into the Jersey Shore on Monday, killing at least 10 people from West Virginia to North Carolina and Connecticut bringing hurricane-force winds and heavy rains to a wide swath of the US East Coast, officials said.

Floods inundated large number of areas, leaving nearly three million people out of electricity. Some parts of Manhattan also experienced power cuts. It also flooded ground-zero.

In the New York City a crane associated with a high rose building under construction collapsed.  In New York, lower Manhattan's Battery Park recorded nearly 14-foot tide, smashing a record set by 1960's Hurricane Donna by more than 3 feet.

The city had already halted service on its bus and train lines, closing schools and ordering about 4,00,000 people out of their homes in low-lying areas of Manhattan and elsewhere, reports CNN.

Flooding forced the closure of all three of the major airports in the area, LaGuardia, John F Kennedy and Newark Liberty. Water seeped into subway stations in Lower Manhattan and into the tunnel connecting Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn, while high winds damaged a crane perched atop a Midtown skyscraper under construction, forcing authorities to evacuate the surrounding area.

The storm was blamed for lamed for more than 2.8 million outages across the Northeast.