Insane Hurricane Sandy Photos...

My Dad sent me the following photos by email...all are Hurricane Sandy [ETA: Apparently not...according to comments below]:

( insane and amazing pictures of Hurricane Sandy coming into NYC and what the flooding looked like )

[ETA: Apparently the more astonishing photos aren't real. So, at lunch, when I saw the email (I can get personal email at work, but can't access my personal blog at work) - I sent an email to my father who had provided me and about 10 other people with the photos via another friend who had sent it to him and about 10 other people :

Me: I heard these were fake and possibly photo-shopped? (included link that flameraven kindly supplied below.)
Dad: Interesting.
(For a writer? My father, who is 77 this month, is a man of few words. Also what is it with people over the age of 60 and chain email's that have urban legends and hoaxes attached? These things appear to cling to my parents' generation like barnacles. I've debunked several - but got taken by this one.)

I will state - that several of them fit the experience, which is why I thought they were real. Although I should have figured out that photos taken at daylight - weren't, since the storm really didn't hit us until almost 9 that night.

While the McDonald's Photo is an installation art piece - this did happen in NYC. Apartments and businesses had two-four feet of water, and DUMB (the area below the Brooklyn Bridge which has many art studios, galleries, restaurants, book stores, etc - was also under 2 - 3 feet of water. The ocean did come in. But it happened at night - so bit hard to take photos, I suspect. And I doubt sharks came in, although Fire Island had some interesting wild life, and there were a few seals.

So photo-shopped or not? They do a decent job of conveying the severity of the storm. I'll give it that.]