Superstorm Sandy continued to wreak havoc in the northeast early Tuesday morning, with airline flights to all of the major airports still disrupted and not expected to resume normal operations for several days. The storm is having far-reaching effects throughout the U.S. and internationally as flights into the U.S. will remain grounded for several days. As the storm continues to move northwestward, airports as far west as Pittsburgh, Detroit, Cleveland and Chicago are being directly impacted by Sandy's winds and precipitation. Winds in Cleveland gusted to 68 mph early Tuesday morning. Coastal Connecticut and Long Island were particularly hard hit, with significant flooding expected at Connecticut's coastal airports of Bridgeport, New Haven and Groton. A second surge event was expected at high tide on Tuesday morning, but no detailed information on the degree of airport flooding was available Tuesday morning.
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