AP PHOTOS: Images of the East Coast superstorm

AAA??Oct. 27, 2012?4:01 PM ET
AP PHOTOS: Images of the East Coast superstorm
By The Associated Press??By The Associated Press

Beach goers watch waves generated by Hurricane Sandy along a breezy Coligny Beach Park on Hilton Head Island, S.C., Saturday morning, Oct. 27, 2012. Hurricane Sandy _ upgraded again Saturday just hours after forecasters said it had weakened to a tropical storm _ was barreling north from the Caribbean and was expected to make landfall early Tuesday near the Delaware coast, then hit two winter weather systems as it moves inland, creating a hybrid monster storm. (AP Photo/The Island Packet, Jay Karr)

Beach goers watch waves generated by Hurricane Sandy along a breezy Coligny Beach Park on Hilton Head Island, S.C., Saturday morning, Oct. 27, 2012. Hurricane Sandy _ upgraded again Saturday just hours after forecasters said it had weakened to a tropical storm _ was barreling north from the Caribbean and was expected to make landfall early Tuesday near the Delaware coast, then hit two winter weather systems as it moves inland, creating a hybrid monster storm. (AP Photo/The Island Packet, Jay Karr)

A beach goer holds on to her hat as she walks along a breezy Coligny Beach Park on Hilton Head Island, S.C., watching the waves generated by Hurricane Sandy near the time of high tide on Saturday morning, Oct. 27, 2012. Hurricane Sandy _ upgraded again Saturday just hours after forecasters said it had weakened to a tropical storm _ was barreling north from the Caribbean and was expected to make landfall early Tuesday near the Delaware coast, then hit two winter weather systems as it moves inland, creating a hybrid monster storm. (AP Photo/The Island Packet, Jay Karr)

Another boat waits its turn, as manager Scott Buck watches as a 50-ton lift raises a fishing boat out of the Maurice River at Yank Marine Services marina Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012, in Dorchester, N.J., in preparation for Hurricane Sandy. From the lowest lying areas of the Jersey Shore, where residents were already being encouraged to leave, to the state's northern highlands, where sandbags were being filled and cars moved into parking lots on high ground, New Jersey began preparing in earnest for Sandy. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Cars line up for gas at the Sam's Club, in Pleasantville, N.J., as Hurricane Sandy makes its way up the coast Friday Oct. 26, 2012. ahead of Hurricane Sandy. A year after being walloped by Hurricane Irene, residents rushed to put away boats, harvest crops and sandbag boardwalks Friday as the Eastern Seaboard braced for a rare megastorm that experts said would cause much greater havoc. (AP Photo/The Press of Atlantic City, Michael Ein) MANDATORY CREDIT

A sign on N. College Rd. in Wilmington, N.C. notifies motorists of a tropical storm watch as Hurricane Sandy churns over the Atlantic ocean, Friday Oct. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/The Star-News, Paul Stephen)

Hurricane Sandy is kicking up big waves along South Carolina as it heads north, where forecasters say it will likely hit two winter weather systems, creating a hybrid monster storm.

Residents in the storm's path are boarding up windows and stocking up on supplies before Sandy's predicted landfall early Tuesday near the Delaware coast.

Here's a look at AP photos of the storm and preparations so far in the U.S.:

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