New York City woke up to massive flooding on Tuesday morning. Hurricane Sandy left several subway systems under water, cars submerged in the floods, and thousands of people without power.

NYC's sky high buildings were no match for the strong high winds. The lower east side has one of the most severe flood damage. The Financial District is closed for a second day due to the massive flooding. The Wall Street Journal reports that at least 50 flooded homes in Queens caught fire and were destroyed; about only 25 people were rescued from an upstairs apartment.

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According to Fox News Latino, The vicious hurricane became a huge storm made up of two wintry systems - making it the largest storm related outage in NYC history.  

"We knew that this was going to be a very dangerous storm, and the storm has met our expectations," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said. "This is a once-in-a-long-time storm."

"This will be one for the record books," said John Miksad, senior vice president for electric operations at Consolidated Edison. "This will be the largest storm-related outage in our history."

Hundreds of Twitter users shared photos of their flooded and damaged neighborhoods. Take a look in the slideshow.