The New York-New Jersey region woke up to a layer of wet snow and more power cuts after a new storm pushed back efforts to recover from a superstorm had left millions powerless and dozens dead last week.

Impatient New Jersey voters queued up amid rubble and rubbish left by Superstorm Sandy as election officials scrambled to open makeshift polling stations on time.

Voting was the latest challenge for the hundreds of thousands of people in the New York-New Jersey area still affected by Superstorm Sandy.

A new storm is expected to hit the New York-New Jersey region still cleaning up after the battering from superstorm Sandy.