Word of the Week #8

1. moonscape

2. The deadly wrath of Hurricane Sandy: By the numbers on theweek.com

3. But so far, the "weather event of a lifetime" has left in its wake "a dazed, inundated New York City, a waterlogged Atlantic Coast, and a moonscape of disarray and debris — from unmoored shore-town boardwalks to submerged mass-transit systems to delicate presidential politics."

4. the surface of the moon as seen or as depicted; also : a landscape resembling this surface; noun 

5. The valley resembled that of a forbidding moonscape.