Much of the Northeastern United States slowed down on Monday to watch Hurricane Sandy make its way up the coast toward its eventual landfall on New England.
Throughout the day, residents of Swampscott and elsewhere endured high winds and power outages and in some cases, downed trees and wires.
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The storm came more than a year after Irene left many Massachusetts communities without power. So which storm do you think was worse – Sandy or Irene?
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