After cutting a destructive path through the Caribbean, Hurricane Sandy caused extensive damage along the East Coast this week.

While the damage wasn’t as bad as many feared it could have been, place and spatial context are especially important in assessing the impacts of a natural disaster.  This is a excellent collection of the many devastating images as a result of Hurricane Sandy.  To see some more local images, Rhode Island Department of Transportation put this collection together.   

See on www.boston.com