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2012年、アメリカを襲った竜巻「サンディ」「アイザック」。このとき、オバマ大統領は「赤十字に寄付を」と呼びかけた。しかし、オバマ大統領自らが名誉総裁も務める、アメリカ赤十字社は、ずさんな救援活動を行っていた――。
10月29日、調査報道を専門とする非営利団体「プロパブリカ」は、アメリカ赤十字社の内部資料や関係者のインタビューを通じ、不祥事を明らかにする「赤十字。秘められた大失敗」（原題: "The Red Cross' Secret Disaster"）と題した報道記事を発表した。
記事では赤十字が被災者支援より、政治的な判断を優先していたとし、その実例を内部資料から紐解き、ずさんな支援活動を列挙、批判している。一部を引用する。
アイザックの際は、救援物資を積んだトラックを手配したが、その中身はほとんど空だった。支援しているようにみせかけるためだ。トラックドライバーは回想する。
「何も与えるものもないのに、被災地までトラックを走らせました。竜巻以上の災厄ですよ」
そしてサンディのときは、救援車両は被災者支援に使われず、記者会見の見せ物として駆り出された。
さらに、赤十字社が適切な手配をしなかったために、車いすを必要とする被災者に簡易ベッドが届かず、何日も車いすのままで寝る事態に陥った。また、ある避難所ではきちんとした手続きに従わなかったために、性犯罪者が子供のエリアにいる、といった事態も起きていた。
関係者のインタビューや書類から、赤十字社は被災後数日間に渡って、食料、毛布、電池など被災者が必要とする物資を十分に用意出来ていないことがわかった。にもかかわらず、物資を必要とする被災者を見つけられないがために、多くの食料を廃棄している。
赤十字社はボランティアを組織したものの、うまく活用することができず、アイザックが通過するまで何日もボランティアの人たちをタンパで足止めさせた。サンディの後には、ボランティアの人たちは、ニューヨークの街角で被害にあった人を探し、さまよった。赤十字がGPSを支給しなかったからだ。
こうした実態があったにも関わらず、アメリカ赤十字社幹部のゲイル・マクガバンは、サンディの被害の2週間後、救助活動について「完璧に近い」と評している。しかし、赤十字自らが作成した自己評価の書類に書かれた内容は、賞賛からは程遠いものだ。
Hurricane Sandy
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A representative of the Salvation Army walks past homes destroyed by Superstorm Sandy in Breezy Point, Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012, in New York. The beachfront neighborhood heavy populated by firefighters and police officers was devastated during the storm when a fire pushed by Sandy\'s raging winds destroyed 100 or more homes and buildings. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) (credit:AP)
Seaside Heights, N.J.(02 of295)
John Okeefe walks on the beach as a rollercoaster that once sat on the Funtown Pier in Seaside Heights, N.J., rests in the ocean on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012 after the pier was washed away by superstorm Sandy which made landfall Monday evening. (credit:Julio Cortez, AP)
Ocean City, M.D.(03 of295)
A National Guard humvee travels through high water to check the area after the effects of Hurricane Sandy Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, in Ocean City, Md. Sandy, the storm that made landfall Monday, caused multiple fatalities, halted mass transit and cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses. (Alex Brandon, AP) (credit:Alex Brandon, AP)
Lower Manhattan(04 of295)
Water is pumped on to the street in lower Manhattan in New York, U.S., on Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012. The New York region is replacing a rail network built over a century with a patchwork constructed day-by-day to move its 8 million people again as it struggles back to life after Hurricane Sandy. (credit:Scott Eells, Bloomberg / Getty Images)
Queens, N.Y.(05 of295)
People walk by a destroyed section of the Rockaway boardwalk in the heavily damaged Rockaway section of Queens after the historic boardwalk was washed away during Hurricane Sandy on Oct. 31, 2012 in the Queens borough of New York City. With the death toll currently at 55 and millions of homes and businesses without power, the US east coast is attempting to recover from the affects of floods, fires and power outages brought on by Hurricane Sandy. JFK airport in New York and Newark airport in New Jersey expect to resume flights on Wednesday morning and the New York Stock Exchange commenced trading after being closed for two days. (credit:Spencer Platt, Getty Images)
Brooklyn Bridge, N.Y.(06 of295)
Commuters cross New York\'s Brooklyn Bridge, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012. The floodwaters that poured into New York\'s deepest subway tunnels may pose the biggest obstacle to the city\'s recovery from the worst natural disaster in the transit system\'s 108-year history. (credit:Richard Drew, AP)
Storm-Damaged Communities On East Coast Hit By Nor'Easter(07 of295)
NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 08: Alex Vila, 2, carries a box of cereal after visiting an aid station for people affected by Superstorm Sandy on November 8, 2012 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Household supplies and groceries were distributed to Red Hook neighborhood residents by Catholic Charities at the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary church. Meanwhile a nor\'easter storm plunged temperatures to below freezing, bringing more misery to many Red Hook residents still without power, heat nor running water in their public housing apartments. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Boats and docks damaged by Hurricane Sandy are seen at the Mansion Marinia on the shores of the Great Kills community November 7, 2012 on Staten Island, New York. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Tuesday announced a limited evacuation of some neighborhoods ahead of harsh weather barreling toward a city still recovering from superstorm Sandy. The national weather service forecast heavy rain and likely snow on Wednesday and Thursday, accompanied by gale force winds gusting as high as 43 mph (69 kmh). Though barely half the strength of Sandy, the autumn storm will lash already damaged buildings and bring lower temperatures for tens of thousands of people still struggling without electricity. Bloomberg told a news conference that parks and beaches would close. The worst-hit patches of waterfront neighborhoods, including Rockaways in the Queens borough, and in Staten Island, were being asked to evacuate again. AFP PHOTO/Paul J. Richards (Photo credit should read PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
Storm-Damaged Communities On East Coast Hit By Nor'Easter(09 of295)
LONG BRANCH, NJ - NOVEMBER 08: Debris from Superstorm Sandy is seen on a beach November 8, 2012 in Long Branch, New Jersey. Meanwhile a nor\'easter storm plunged temperatures to below freezing, bringing more misery to many residents throughout New York and New Jersey still without power. (Photo by Allison Joyce/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
Long Island Residents, Many Still Without Power, Continue To Clean Up After Superstorm Sandy(10 of295)
OCEANSIDE, NY - NOVEMBER 09: (L-R) James Vouloukos and William Ferris sort through donated clothes at a site maintained by the Town of Hempstead in cooperation with FEMA at Oceanside Park during in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy on November 9, 2012 in Oceanside, New York. New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has said that the economic loss and damage to homes and businesses caused by Sandy could total $33 billion in New York, according to published reports. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
Funeral Held in Brooklyn For Two Young Brothers Killed During Superstorm Sandy(11 of295)
NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 09: New York sanitation department workers watch as a hearse arrives with a casket carrying the bodies of two brothers killed during Superstorm Sandy for a funeral at the St. Rose of Lima Catholic church on November 9, 2012 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Brandon Moore, 2, and Connor Moore, 4, were swept away from the arms of their mother Glenda Moore as she fled Superstorm Sandy floodwaters in New York\'s Staten Island borough to seek safety with family in Brooklyn. She is married to New York Sanitation worker Damian Moore, and dozens of workers and officials from the sanitation department attended the funeral ceremony. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
Long Island Residents, Many Still Without Power, Continue To Clean Up After Superstorm Sandy(12 of295)
ISLAND PARK, NY - NOVEMBER 09: (L-R) Residents Paul and Donald Zezulinski and their dog \'Plywood\' of Island Park show their appreciation to first responders during their clean up efforts in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy on November 9, 2012 in Island Park, New York. New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has said that the economic loss and damage to homes and business caused by Sandy could total $33 billion in New York, according to published reports. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012 file photo, people stand next to a house collapsed from Superstorm Sandy in East Haven, Conn. While Connecticut was spared the destruction seen in New York and New Jersey, many communities along the shoreline, including some of the wealthiest towns in America, were struggling with one of the most severe storms in generations. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File) (credit:AP)
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Meg Dolan holds her dog \"Nellie\" during Sunday mass at St. Thomas More Catholic Church in Breezy Point, in the wake of Superstorm Sandy, Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012, in New York. With overnight temperatures sinking into the 30s and hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses still without electricity six days after Sandy howled through, people piled on layers of clothes, and New York City officials handed out blankets and urged victims to go to overnight shelters or daytime warming centers. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) (credit:AP)
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Ginny Flanagan, right, and her sister go through photographs and mementos that were recovered from Flanagan\'s flooded bungalow in Breezy Point, in the wake of Superstorm Sandy, Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012, in New York. The beachfront enclave heavy populated by firefighters and police officers was devastated during the storm when a fire pushed by Sandy\'s raging winds destroyed 100 or more homes and buildings. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) (credit:AP)
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Runner Jonathan who would have run the ING New York City Marathon, spend the afternoon volunteering by unloading and organizing emergency supplies near Midland Beach as New York recovers from Hurricane Sandy on November 4, 2012 in Staten Island, New York. AFP PHOTO / Mehdi Taamallah (Photo credit should read MEHDI TAAMALLAH/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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A woman with her groceries passes a group of National Guardsmen as they march up 1st Avenue towards the 69th Regiment Armory, Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012, in New York. National Guardsmen remain in Manhattan as the city begins to move towards normalcy following Superstorm Sandy earlier in the week. (AP Photo/ John Minchillo) (credit:AP)
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Patrons on foot carrying gas canisters line up for gasoline at a Hess station in the New Dorp section of the Staten Island borough of New York, Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012. Those on foot reported waits up to 40 minutes while motorists lined up for two hours as Staten Islanders fueled up to run their generators and automobiles in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. (AP Photo/Eileen AJ Connelly) (credit:AP)
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Girls hold hands during Sunday mass at St. Thomas More Catholic Church in Breezy Point, in the wake of Superstorm Sandy, Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012, in New York. With overnight temperatures sinking into the 30s and hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses still without electricity six days after Sandy howled through, people piled on layers of clothes, and New York City officials handed out blankets and urged victims to go to overnight shelters or daytime warming centers. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) (credit:AP)
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Many streets in the Silver Lake section of Belmar, N.J., remain underwater Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012, Neighbors and volunteers clean out homes Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012, in Belmar, N.J., five days after the storm surge by superstorm Sandy. (AP Photo/Ben Nukols) (credit:AP)
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Water from superstorm Sandy is pumped from a flooded basement of an office building near New York\'s Battery Park, Friday, Nov. 2, 2012. The massive storm that started out as Hurricane Sandy slammed into the East Coast and morphed into a huge and problematic system, killing at least 96 people in the United States. The cost of the storm could exceed $18 billion in New York alone. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) (credit:AP)
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Cars that were uprighted and submerged by Superstorm Sandy remain at the entrance of a subterranean parking garage in New York\'s Financial District, as the water is pumped out, Friday, Nov. 2, 2012. . The cost of the storm could exceed $18 billion in New York alone. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) (credit:AP)
National Guard in Lower Manhattan(23 of295)
The National Guard 827th Engineer Company helps hand out MREs to Lower Manhattan residents at the Alfred Smith Playground on Friday Nov. 2, 2012. (Damon Dahlen, AOL) (credit:Damon Dahlen, AOL)
National Guard in Lower Manhattan(24 of295)
The National Guard 827th Engineer Company helps hand out MREs to Lower Manhattan residents at the Alfred Smith Playground on Friday Nov. 2, 2012. (Damon Dahlen, AOL) (credit:Damon Dahlen, AOL)
Grand Central Terminal, New York City(25 of295)
People walk through Grand Central Terminal as the sun rises during a subdued morning rush on Nov. 1, 2012 in New York City. Some trains are back up and running into Grand Central following shutdowns in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy. Subway train service in the city is back in a limited capacity, but with much of lower Manhattan still with out power, trains are not running there and busses are replacing them. (credit:Mario Tama, Getty Images)
Seaside Heights, N.J.(26 of295)
A roller coaster sits in the Atlantic Ocean after the Fun Town pier it sat on was destroyed by Superstorm Sandy on Nov. 1, 2012 in Seaside Heights, New Jersey. With the death toll continuing to rise and millions of homes and businesses without power, the U.S. east coast is attempting to recover from the effects of floods, fires and power outages brought on by Superstorm Sandy. (credit:Mark Wilson, Getty Images)
National Guard in Lower Manhattan(27 of295)
The National Guard 827th Engineer Company helps hand out MREs to Lower Manhattan residents at the Alfred Smith Playground on Friday Nov. 2, 2012. (Damon Dahlen, AOL) (credit:Damon Dahlen, AOL)
Charging Station Provided By AT&T(28 of295)
Phillip Melly charges the phones of Hurricane Sandy victims at Kimlau Square in Lower Manhattan on Friday Nov. 2, 2012. The generators used were brought in by AT&T to help out the residents of Lower Manhattan in New York City who currently have no power. (Damon Dahlen, AOL) (credit:Damon Dahlen, AOL)
Stocking Up On Ice(29 of295)
United City Ice Cube Company workers who refer to themselves as \"Icemen\" take in a shipment of ice into their 45th and 10th ave. store on Friday Nov. 2, 2012. The workers who asked not to be identified by name said there had been a run on ice purchases due to Hurricane Sandy and they were stocking up in anticipation of more demand in the coming days. (Damon Dahlen, AOL) (credit:Damon Dahlen, AOL)
Car Crash Due To Power Outage(30 of295)
The power outage in Lower Manhattan due to Hurricane Sandy has created a gauntlet of dangerous street intersections as can be seen by this car accident at the Houston and Varick Street crossing on Friday Nov. 2, 2012. (Damon Dahlen, AOL) (credit:Damon Dahlen, AOL)
Car Crash Due To Power Outage(31 of295)
The power outage in Lower Manhattan due to Hurricane Sandy has created a gauntlet of dangerous street intersections as can be seen by this car accident at the Houston and Varick Street crossing on Friday Nov. 2, 2012. (Damon Dahlen, AOL) (credit:Damon Dahlen, AOL)
Clean Drinking Water(32 of295)
Pedestrians fill up on water at a drinking station that had been setup at the corner of Centre and Canal Streets in Chinatown on Friday Nov. 2, 2012. The stations use water from fire hydrants and have been erected due to the blackout caused by Hurricane Sandy in Lower Manhattan. (Damon Dahlen, AOL) (credit:Damon Dahlen, AOL)
Trash Picking In Chinatown(33 of295)
A pedestrian looks through discarded food near a supermarket located at Henry and Market Streets in Chinatown New York on Friday Nov. 2, 2012. (credit:Damon Dahlen, AOL)
Fort Lee, N.J.(34 of295)
People wait in line for fuel at a Shell Oil station on Nov. 1, 2012 in Fort Lee, New Jersey. The US death toll from Hurricane Sandy rose to at least 85 as New York reported a major jump in fatalities caused by Monday\'s storm. Fuel shortages led to long lines of cars at gasoline stations in many states and the country faced a storm bill of tens of billions of dollars. (credit:Brendan Smialowski, AFP / Getty Images)
New York City(35 of295)
Commuters ride the F train Nov. 1, 2012 in New York City. Limited public transit has returned to New York. With the death toll continuing to rise and millions of homes and businesses without power, the U.S. east coast is attempting to recover from the effects of floods, fires and power outages brought on by Superstorm Sandy. (credit:Allison Joyce, Getty Images)
Toms River, N.J.(36 of295)
A gas station displays a \"No Gas\" sign on November 1, 2012 in Toms River, New Jersey. With the death toll continuing to rise and millions of homes and businesses without power, the U.S. east coast is attempting to recover from the effects of floods, fires and power outages brought on by Superstorm Sandy. (credit:Mark Wilson, Getty Images)
Fort Lee, N.J.(37 of295)
Cars wait in line for fuel at a Gulf gas station on Nov.1, 2012 in Fort Lee, New Jersey. The US death toll from Hurricane Sandy rose to at least 85 as New York reported a major jump in fatalities caused by Monday\'s storm. Fuel shortages led to long lines of cars at gasoline stations in many states and the country faced a storm bill of tens of billions of dollars. (credit:Brendan Smialowski, AFP / Getty Images)
Brooklyn, N.Y.(38 of295)
New Yorkers wait in traffic as they head into Manhattan from Brooklyn as the city continues to recover from superstorm Sandy on Nov.1, 2012, in New York, United States. Limited public transit has returned to New York and most major bridges have reopened but will require three occupants in the vehicle to pass. With the death toll currently over 70 and millions of homes and businesses without power, the US east coast is attempting to recover from the effects of floods, fires and power outages brought on by superstorm Sandy. (credit:Spencer Platt, Getty Images)
Hoboken, N.J.(39 of295)
Mud and debris liiter a street on Nov.1, 2012 in Hoboken, New Jersey. Hurricane victims continue to recover from Hurricane Sandy, which made landfall along the New Jersey shore, and left parts of the state and the surrounding area flooded and without power. (credit:Brendan Smialowski, AFP / Getty Images)
Washington, D.C.(40 of295)
Firefighters shoot water into a building in the 1200 block of 4th St., NE, near the recently opened Union Market, after responding to a blaze that broke out around 9pm Wednesday night. (credit:Tom Williams, CQ Roll Call / Getty Images)
Seaside Heights, N.J.(41 of295)
Debris lies on the boardwalk in front of the Casino Pier, which was partially destroyed by Superstorm Sandy on Nov.1, 2012 in Seaside Heights, New Jersey. With the death toll continuing to rise and millions of homes and businesses without power, the U.S. east coast is attempting to recover from the effects of floods, fires and power outages brought on by Superstorm Sandy. (credit:Mark Wilson, Getty Images)
Long Island Residents, Many Still Without Power, Continue To Clean Up After Superstorm Sandy(42 of295)
LONG BEACH, NY - NOVEMBER 09: A man walks past a destroyed section of the boardwalk at the base of Lincoln Boulevard as Long Islanders continue their clean up efforts in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy on November 9, 2012 in Long Beach, New York. New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has said that the economic loss and damage to homes and business caused by Sandy could total $33 billion in New York, according to published reports. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
New York City(43 of295)
Residents charge their cell phones and computers on the East River esplanade in New York, U.S., on Nov. 1, 2012. The New York region is replacing a rail network built over a century with a patchwork constructed day-by-day to move its 8 million people again as it struggles back to life after Hurricane Sandy. (credit:Scott Eells, Bloomberg / Getty Images)
Toms River, N.J.(44 of295)
An American flag flies in front of a home damaged by Hurricane Sandy on Nov. 1, 2012 in Toms River, New Jersey. With the death toll continuing to rise and millions of homes and businesses without power, the U.S. east coast is attempting to recover from the effects of floods, fires and power outages brought on by superstorm Sandy. (credit:Mark Wilson, Getty Images)
North Bergen, New Jersey(45 of295)
A woman leaves an Exxon gas station which was out of gas on Nov. 1, 2012 in North Bergen, New Jersey. The US death toll from Hurricane Sandy rose to at least 85 as New York reported a major jump in fatalities caused by Monday\'s storm. Fuel shortages led to long lines of cars at gasoline stations in many states and the country faced a storm bill of tens of billions of dollars. (credit:Brendan Smialowski, AFP / Getty Images)
Manhattan from Hoboken, N.J.(46 of295)
People board the NY Waterways ferry with the Manhattan skyline in the background Nov.1, 2012 in Hoboken, New Jersey. Hurricane Sandy, which made landfall along the New Jersey shore, left parts of the state and the surrounding area without power including much of lower Manhattan south of 34th Street. (credit:Brendan Smialowski, AFP / Getty Images)
South Ferry 1 Train Station, New York City(47 of295)
Joseph Leader, Metropolitan Tranportation Authority Vice President and Chief Maintenance Officer, shines a flashlight on standing water inside the South Ferry 1 train station in New York, N.Y., Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, in the wake of superstorm Sandy. The floodwaters that poured into New York\'s deepest subway tunnels may pose the biggest obstacle to the city\'s recovery from the worst natural disaster in the transit system\'s 108-year history. (credit:Craig Ruttle, AP)
Grand Central Terminal, New York City(48 of295)
People exit a Metro-North train arriving in Grand Central Terminal during the morning rush on Nov. 1, 2012 in New York City. Some trains are back up and running into Grand Central following shutdowns in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy. Subway train service in the city is back in a limited capacity, but with much of lower Manhattan still with out power, trains are not running there and busses are replacing them. (credit:Mario Tama, Getty Images)
Brooklyn, N.Y.(49 of295)
Pedestrians look over a fence at a pile of boats flooded inland at the Varuna Boat Club on Oct. 31, 2012, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Sandy, the storm that made landfall Monday, caused multiple fatalities, halted mass transit and cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses. (credit:John Minchillo, AP)
Queens, N.Y.(50 of295)
Damage is viewed in the Rockaway neighborhood where the historic boardwalk was washed away during Hurricane Sandy on Oct. 31, 2012 in the Queens borough of New York City. With the death toll currently at 55 and millions of homes and businesses without power, the US east coast is attempting to recover from the affects of floods, fires and power outages brought on by Hurricane Sandy. JFK airport in New York and Newark airport in New Jersey expect to resume flights on Wednesday morning and the New York Stock Exchange commenced trading after being closed for two days. (credit:Spencer Platt, Getty Images)
Atlantic City, N.J.(51 of295)
A damaged car is shown in the wake of superstorm Sandy, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, in Atlantic City, N.J. Sandy was being blamed for at least six deaths across the state plus power outages that at their peak Monday affected 2.7 million residential and commercial customers. (credit:Matt Slocum, AP)
Brooklyn, N.Y.(52 of295)
A worker picks up debris outside of the damaged Tatiana Grill on the Brighton Beach boardwalk, on Oct. 31, 2012, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Sandy, the storm that made landfall Monday, caused multiple fatalities, halted mass transit and cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses. (credit:John Minchillo, AP)
Atlantic City, N.J.(53 of295)
A man walks down a street as workers clear debris from superstorm Sandy in Atlantic City, N.J., on Oct. 31, 2012. Sandy, the storm that made landfall Monday, caused multiple fatalities, halted mass transit and cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses. (credit:Patrick Semansky, AP)
Babylon Village, N.Y(54 of295)
Bill Schmith, right, gets help from his son-in-law Jeff Aiello as he works to salvage belongings from his heavily damaged home in Babylon Village, N.Y., in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012. (Jason DeCrow, AP)
Atlantic City, N.J.(55 of295)
A worker uses a backhoe to move sand near a boardwalk that was destroyed by superstorm Sandy in Atlantic City, N.J., Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012. Sandy, the storm that made landfall Monday, caused multiple fatalities, halted mass transit and cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses. (credit:Patrick Semansky, AP)
Queens, N.Y.(56 of295)
Damage is viewed in the Rockaway neighborhood where the historic boardwalk was washed away during Hurricane Sandy on Oct.31, 2012 in the Queens borough of New York City. With the death toll currently at 55 and millions of homes and businesses without power, the US east coast is attempting to recover from the affects of floods, fires and power outages brought on by Hurricane Sandy. JFK airport in New York and Newark airport in New Jersey expect to resume flights on Wednesday morning and the New York Stock Exchange commenced trading after being closed for two days. (credit:Spencer Platt, Getty Images)
Queens, N.Y.(57 of295)
An abandoned police car is viewed on the heavily damaged beach in the Rockaway section of Brooklyn are all that remain after the historic boardwalk was washed away during Hurricane Sandy on Oct. 31, 2012 in the Queens borough of New York City. With the death toll currently at 55 and millions of homes and businesses without power, the US east coast is attempting to recover from the affects of floods, fires and power outages brought on by Hurricane Sandy. JFK airport in New York and Newark airport in New Jersey expect to resume flights on Wednesday morning and the New York Stock Exchange commenced trading after being closed for two days. (credit:Spencer Platt, Getty Images)
New York Stock Exchange(58 of295)
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012. Stocks advanced as U.S. equity markets resumed trading for the first time this week after Hurricane Sandy. (credit:Peter Foley, Bloomberg / Getty Images)
New York Stock Exchange(59 of295)
Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, on Oct. 31, 2012. Traffic is snarled, subways out of commission, streets flooded and power out in many parts of the city, but the New York Stock Exchange opened without hitch Wednesday after an historic two-day shutdown, courtesy of superstorm Sandy. (credit:Seth Wenig, AP)
Hoboken, N.J.(60 of295)
People line up to buy supplies at an Ace Hardware running a power generator October 31, 2012 in Hoboken, New Jersey. Hurricane Sandy which made landfall along the New Jersey shore, has left parts of the state and the surrounding area flooded and without power. (credit:Brendan Smialowski, AFP / Getty Images)
Hoboken, N.J.(61 of295)
Blaine Badick and her fiancee Andrew Grapsas cross a flooded street with their dog while leaving their home Oct. 31, 2012 in Hoboken, New Jersey. Hurricane Sandy which made landfall along the New Jersey shore, has left parts of the state and the surrounding area flooded and without power. (credit:Brendan Smialowski, AFP / Getty Images)
Hoboken, N.J.(62 of295)
Members of the National Guard stand ready with large trucks used to pluck people from high water in Hoboken, N.J. on Oct. 31, 2012 in the wake of superstorm Sandy. Parts of the city are still covered in standing water, trapping some residents in their homes. (Craig Ruttle, AP) (credit:Craig Ruttle, AP)
Staten Island, N.Y.(63 of295)
Members of the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) search for stranded residents as they navigate through flood waters on Hylan Boulevard in the Staten Island borough of New York, U.S., on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. New York City officials spent the day grappling with the damage from Sandy, the Atlantic superstorm that killed 10 people, sparked a fire that destroyed 111 homes in Queens, flooded tunnels of the biggest U.S. transit system and left more than 750,000 customers without power. (credit:Victor J. Blue, Bloomberg / Getty Images)
Edison, N.J.(64 of295)
People wait in line to fill containers with fuel at a Shell gas station Oct. 30, 2012 in Edison, New Jersey. Hurricane Sandy which hit New York and New Jersey left much of Bergen County flooded and without power. (credit:Brendan Smialowski, AFP / Getty Images)
East Village, New York City(65 of295)
People gather inside Dorian Gray Tap and Grill during a power outage following Hurricane Sandy, Oct. 30, 2012 in the East Village neighborhood of New York City. The storm has claimed at least 40 lives in the United States, and has caused massive flooding accross much of the Atlantic seaboard leaving millions of people without power. US President Barack Obama has declared the situation a \'major disaster\' for large areas of the US East Coast including New York City. (credit:Allison Joyce, Getty Images)
New York City(66 of295)
Clouds hang over the darkened lower Manhattan skyline at night in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. New York City officials spent the day grappling with the damage from Sandy, the Atlantic superstorm that killed 10 people, sparked a fire that destroyed 111 homes in Queens, flooded tunnels of the biggest U.S. transit system and left more than 750,000 customers without power. (credit:Victor J. Blue, Bloomberg / Getty Images)
Hoboken, N.J. (67 of295)
The twisted remains of a Hudson River marina are seen across from New York City as a result of superstorm Sandy on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012 in Hoboken, NJ. (credit:Charles Sykes, AP)
Hoboken, N.J.(68 of295)
A resident walks through flood water and past a stalled ambulance in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012 in Hoboken, NJ. (credit:Charles Sykes, AP)
Hoboken, NJ.(69 of295)
Cars sit in flood water as a result of superstorm Sandy on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012 in Hoboken, NJ. (credit:Charles Sykes, AP)
Hoboken, N.J. (70 of295)
A yacht washes up on the waterfront of the Hudson River as a result of superstorm Sandy on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012 in Hoboken, NJ. (credit:Charles Sykes, AP)
Chesapeake Beach, MD(71 of295)
A downed tree and power lines block Rt. 261 in Calvert County just south of Chesapeake Beach on Tuesday morning in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, in Chesapeake Beach, MD, on Oct. 30, 2012. \n\n (credit:Ray K. Saunders, The Washington Post / Getty Images)
Reagan National Airport(72 of295)
A lone arriving passenger walks onto the Reagan National Airport Metro platform just after Metro reopened the system this after noon after Hurricane Sandy in Arlington VA, Oct. 30, 2012. (credit:John McDonnell, The Washington Post / Getty Images)
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People in New York\'s Tribeca neighborhood, without power because of superstorm Sandy, wait for a chance to charge their mobile phones on an available generator setup on a sidewalk, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. Sandy, the storm that made landfall Monday, caused multiple fatalities, halted mass transit and cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) (credit:Richard Drew, AP)
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People take photos at water filling the Bowling Green subway station in Battery Park in New York on October 30, 2012 as New Yorkers cope with the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. The storm left large parts of New York City without power and transportation. TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images (credit:Getty Images)
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North Carolina 12 is buckled from pounding surf leading into Mirlo Beach in Rodanthe, N.C. on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. People on North Carolina\'s Outer Banks are facing some flooding and damage from Hurricane Sandy, but emergency management officials say it could have been worse. North Carolina Transportation Department spokeswoman Greer Beaty said the highway was closed Tuesday until crews inspect the road. (AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, Steve Earley) (credit:AP)
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Foundations and pilings are all that remain of brick buildings and a boardwalk in Atlantic City, N.J., Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, after they were destroyed when a powerful storm that started out as Hurricane Sandy made landfall on the East Coast on Monday night. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) (credit:AP)
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FARMINGDALE, NY - OCTOBER 30: Timothy Henggeler, Logistics Specialist with FEMA speaks with New York guard members at Republic Airport in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy on October 30, 2012 in Farmingdale, New York. The storm has claimed at least a few dozen lives in the United States, and has caused massive flooding across much of the Atlantic seaboard. U.S. President Barack Obama has declared the situation a \'major disaster\' for large areas of the U.S. east coast, including New York City. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
Breezy Point, N.Y.(79 of295)
A firefighter works to contain a fire that destroyed over 50 homes during Hurricane Sandy on Oct. 30, 2012 in the Breezy Point neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York. At least 33 people were reported killed in the United States by Sandy as millions of people in the eastern United States have awoken to widespread power outages, flooded homes and downed trees. New York City was hit especially hard with wide spread power outages and significant flooding in parts of the city. (Spencer Platt, Getty Images) (credit:Spencer Platt, Getty Images)
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Pleasure boats pile up 30 yards or more from the waters edge in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, in the Cliffwood Beach section of Aberdeen, N.J. The storm\'s high winds and the high astronomical tide paired up to rip the boats away from their dock and deposit them on shore. (AP Photo/Peter Hermann, III) (credit:AP)
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A parking lot full of yellow cabs is flooded as a result of superstorm Sandy on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012 in Hoboken, NJ. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes) (credit:AP)
East Coast Begins To Clean Up And Assess Damage From Hurricane Sandy(82 of295)
OCEAN CITY, NJ - OCTOBER 30: Residents survey the damage after Hurricane Sandy on October 30, 2012 in Ocean City, New Jersey. Sandy made landfall last night on the New Jersey coastline bringing heavy winds and record floodwaters. At least two dozen people were reported killed in the United States as millions of people in the eastern United States are experiencing widespread power outages, flooded homes and downed trees. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Jason Locke sweeps water and mud from his parents\' home in Westport, Mass., Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. Many homeowners who suffered losses because of flooding from Hurricane Sandy are likely to find themselves out of luck. Standard homeowners policies don\'t cover flooding damage, and the vast majority of homeowners don\'t have flood insurance.Yet it\'s likely that many Northeasterners will purchase it in coming months, hoping they\'ll be covered the next time around, at a cost averaging around $600 a year. (AP Photo/The Standard Times, Peter Pereira) (credit:AP)
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The tailend of a SUV is perched on top of a postal mailbox in the aftermath of floods from Hurricane Sandy on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, in Coney Island, N.Y. Sandy, the storm that made landfall Monday, caused multiple fatalities, halted mass transit and cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews) (credit:AP)
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HUNTINGTON, NY - OCTOBER 30: Power lines rest at a 45 degree angle on Clinton Avenue in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy on October 30, 2012 in Huntington, New York. The storm has claimed at least a few dozen lives in the United States, and has caused massive flooding across much of the Atlantic seaboard. U.S. President Barack Obama has declared the situation a \'major disaster\' for large areas of the U.S. east coast, including New York City. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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A flood damaged vehicle is surrounded by debris in Mirlo Beach in Rodanthe, N.C. on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. People on North Carolina\'s Outer Banks are facing some flooding and damage from Hurricane Sandy, but emergency management officials say it could have been worse. (AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, Steve Earley) (credit:AP)
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A police officer watch as a passerby look into a store through a damaged security grate, in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, on Mermaid Avenue in Coney Island, N.Y. Sandy, the storm that made landfall Monday, caused multiple fatalities, halted mass transit and cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses.(AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews) (credit:AP)
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HUNTINGTON STATION, NY - OCTOBER 30: A sporting goods and camping store displays it\'s message to residents in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy on October 30, 2012 in Huntington Station, New York. The storm has claimed at least a few dozen lives in the United States, and has caused massive flooding across much of the Atlantic seaboard. U.S. President Barack Obama has declared the situation a \'major disaster\' for large areas of the U.S. east coast, including New York City. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Nicholas Rodriguez looks over a section of the destroyed boardwalk in Atlantic City, N.J., Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, not far from where a powerful storm that started out as Hurricane Sandy made landfall the night before. Millions of people from Maine to the Carolinas awoke Tuesday without electricity, but the full extent of the damage in New Jersey, where the storm roared ashore Monday night with hurricane force, was unclear. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) (credit:AP)
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People walk on North Carolina 12 away from the buckling of the highway, pounded by surf, leading into Mirlo Beach in Rodanthe, N.C. on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. People on North Carolina\'s Outer Banks are facing some flooding and damage from Hurricane Sandy, but emergency management officials say it could have been worse. North Carolina Transportation Department spokeswoman Greer Beaty said the highway was closed Tuesday until crews inspect the road. (AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, Steve Earley) (credit:AP)
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A huge tree split apart and fell over the front yard and fence of a home on Carpenter Avenue in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy on Tuesday, Oct., 30, 2012, in Sea Cliff, N.Y. (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek) (credit:AP)
Little Ferry, N.J.(92 of295)
Olivia Loesner, 16, hugs her uncle, Little Ferry Deputy Fire Chief John Ruff, after she was brought from her flooded home in a boat in Little Ferry, N.J., Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, in the wake of superstorm Sandy. At right carrying pets, is her mother, Janice Loesner. (Craig Ruttle, AP) (credit:Craig Ruttle, AP)
Cleveland, Ohio(93 of295)
Waves pound a lighthouse on the shores of Lake Erie Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, near Cleveland. High winds spinning off the edge of superstorm Sandy took a vicious swipe at northeast Ohio early Tuesday, uprooting trees, cutting power to hundreds of thousands, closing schools and flooding parts of major commuter arteries that run along Lake Erie. (Tony Dejak, AP) (credit:Tony Dejak, AP)
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OCEAN CITY, NJ - OCTOBER 30: Streets remain flooded after Hurricane Sandy on October 30, 2012 in Ocean City, New Jersey. Sandy made landfall last night on the New Jersey coastline bringing heavy winds and record floodwaters. At least two dozen people were reported killed in the United States as millions of people in the eastern United States are experiencing widespread power outages, flooded homes and downed trees. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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A log rests on a vehicle damaged by superstorm Sandy at Breezy Point in the New York City borough of Queens, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, in New York. The fire destroyed between 80 and 100 houses Monday night in the flooded neighborhood. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) (credit:AP)
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OCEAN CITY, MD - OCTOBER 30: People participate in metal detecting at the beach after Hurricane Sandy hit the region October 30, 2012 in Ocean City, Maryland. The storm has claimed at least 33 lives in the United States, and has caused massive flooding across much of the Atlantic seaboard. U.S. President Barack Obama has declared the situation a \'major disaster\' for large areas of the U.S. east coast, including New York City, with widespread power outages and significant flooding in parts of the city. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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FARMINGDALE, NY - OCTOBER 30: (L-R) Mike Cassidy and Warren Connolly work to clear trees from Secatouge Avenue in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy on October 30, 2012 in Farmingdale, New York. The storm has claimed at least a few dozen lives in the United States, and has caused massive flooding across much of the Atlantic seaboard. U.S. President Barack Obama has declared the situation a \'major disaster\' for large areas of the U.S. east coast, including New York City. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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PLAINVIEW, NY - OCTOBER 30: Motorists wind their way up Manetto Hill Road in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy on October 30, 2012 in Plainview, New York. The storm has claimed at least a few dozen lives in the United States, and has caused massive flooding across much of the Atlantic seaboard. U.S. President Barack Obama has declared the situation a \'major disaster\' for large areas of the U.S. east coast, including New York City. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
East Coast Begins To Clean Up And Assess Damage From Hurricane Sandy(99 of295)
OCEAN CITY, NJ - OCTOBER 30: A picnic table sits on a sand covered road after Hurricane Sandy on October 30, 2012 in Ocean City, New Jersey. Sandy made landfall last night on the New Jersey coastline bringing heavy winds and record floodwaters. At least two dozen people were reported killed in the United States as millions of people in the eastern United States are experiencing widespread power outages, flooded homes and downed trees. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Two women shop for groceries by flashlight in the Tribeca neighborhood of New York, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. ConEd cut power Moday to some neighborhoods served by underground lines as the advancing storm surge from Hurricane Sandy threatened to flood substations. Floodwaters later led to explosions that disabled a substation in Lower Manhattan, cutting power tens of thousands of customers south of 39th Street. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) (credit:AP)
Ground Zero Floods(101 of295)
Sea water floods the Ground Zero construction site, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, in New York. Sandy continued on its path Monday, as the storm forced the shutdown of mass transit, schools and financial markets, sending coastal residents fleeing, and threatening a dangerous mix of high winds and soaking rain. (AP Photo/ John Minchillo) (credit:John Minchillo, AP)
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LONG BEACH, NY - OCTOBER 30: Residents walk on a street covered in beach sand due to flooding from Hurricane Sandy on October 30, 2012 in Long Beach, New York. The storm has claimed at least 33 lives in the United States, and has caused massive flooding across much of the Atlantic seaboard. U.S. President Barack Obama has declared the situation a \'major disaster\' for large areas of the U.S. east coast, including New York City, with widespread power outages and significant flooding in parts of the city. (Photo by Mike Stobe/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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A man looks down at water filling the Bowling Green subway station in Battery Park in New York on October 30, 2012 as New Yorkers cope with the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. The storm left large parts of New York City without power and transportation. TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images (credit:Getty Images)
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LONG BEACH, NY - OCTOBER 30: A section of an old boardwalk is seen destroyed by flooding from Hurricane Sandy on October 30, 2012 in Long Beach, New York. The storm has claimed at least 33 lives in the United States, and has caused massive flooding across much of the Atlantic seaboard. U.S. President Barack Obama has declared the situation a \'major disaster\' for large areas of the U.S. east coast, including New York City, with widespread power outages and significant flooding in parts of the city. (Photo by Mike Stobe/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
Ocean City, M.D.(105 of295)
Michael Brown, left, and Enos Jones, with Ocean City, fill a truck with debris as they clean the boardwalk after the effects of Hurricane Sandy Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, in Ocean City, Md. Sandy, the storm that made landfall Monday, caused multiple fatalities, halted mass transit and cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses.(Alex Brandon, AP) (credit:Alex Brandon, AP)
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A man cleans up the remains of his food store damaged by Hurricane Sandy, in New York\'s South Street Seaport, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. New York City awakened Tuesday to a flooded subway system, shuttered financial markets and hundreds of thousands of people without power a day after a wall of seawater and high winds slammed into the city, destroying buildings and flooding tunnels. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) (credit:AP)
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Members of the Saint Joseph\'s University crew team pull a damaged boat from the Schuylkill river in the wake of superstorm Sandy, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, in Philadelphia. A one-two punch of rain and high wind from a monster hybrid storm that started out as a hurricane battered Pennsylvania, leaving more than a million customers without power as officials began assessing the damage Tuesday. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum) (credit:AP)
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Workers clear debris outside the Consolidated Edison power sub-station on 14th Street, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, in New York. Hurricane Sandy marched slowly inland, leaving millions without power or mass transit, with huge swatches of the nation\'s largest city unusually vacant and dark. New York was among the hardest hit, with its financial heart in Lower Manhattan shuttered for a second day and seawater cascading into the still-gaping construction pit at the World Trade Center (AP Photo/ John Minchillo) (credit:AP)
Belington, W.Va.(109 of295)
An ambulance is stuck in over a foot of snow off of Highway 33 West, near Belington, W.Va. on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, in Belington, W.Va. Superstorm Sandy buried parts of West Virginia under more than a foot of snow on Tuesday, cutting power to at least 264,000 customers and closing dozens of roads. At least one death was reported. The storm not only hit higher elevations hard as predicted, communities in lower elevations got much more than the dusting of snow forecasters had first thought from a dangerous system that also brought significant rainfall, high wind gusts and small-stream flooding. (Robert Ray, AP) (credit:Robert Ray, AP)
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North Carolina 12 is buckled from pounding surf leading into Mirlo Beach in Rodanthe, N.C. on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. People on North Carolina\'s Outer Banks are facing some flooding and damage from Hurricane Sandy, but emergency management officials say it could have been worse. North Carolina Transportation Department spokeswoman Greer Beaty said the highway was closed Tuesday until crews inspect the road. (AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, Steve Earley) (credit:AP)
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Carol Mason mops her flooded floor with towels after returning to her home in Atlantic City, N.J., Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. Many homeowners who suffered losses because of flooding from Hurricane Sandy are likely to find themselves out of luck. Standard homeowners policies don\'t cover flooding damage, and the vast majority of homeowners don\'t have flood insurance. Yet it\'s likely that many Northeasterners will purchase it in coming months, hoping they\'ll be covered the next time around, at a cost averaging around $600 a year. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) (credit:AP)
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A street and business are flooded as a result of Hurricane Sandy on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012 in Hoboken, NJ. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes) (credit:AP)
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A house is inundated by flood water as Hurricane Sandy approaches, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, in Center Moriches, N.Y. Many homeowners who suffered losses because of flooding from Hurricane Sandy are likely to find themselves out of luck. Standard homeowners policies don\'t cover flooding damage, and the vast majority of homeowners don\'t have flood insurance. Yet it\'s likely that many Northeasterners will purchase it in coming months, hoping they\'ll be covered the next time around, at a cost averaging around $600 a year. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow) (credit:AP)
Lower Manhattan Goes Dark(114 of295)
Lower Manhattan goes dark during superstorm Sandy, on Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, as seen from the Brooklyn Heights promenade in the Brooklyn borough of New York. One World Trade Center, background center, remains brightly lit. Sandy continued on its path Monday, as the storm forced the shutdown of mass transit, schools and financial markets, sending coastal residents fleeing, and threatening a dangerous mix of high winds and soaking rain. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)\n (credit:Bebeto Matthews, AP)
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The space shuttle Enterprise is draped with cloth that had protected it before Superstorm Sandy passed though, leaving the spacecraft shrouded on the deck of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, at its dock on the Hudson River in New York, Tuesday, Oct, 30, 2012. Sandy, the storm which was downgraded from a hurricane just before making landfall, caused multiple fatalities, halted mass transit and cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan) (credit:AP)
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Onlookers take photographs of two cars that collided during flooding outside the Consolidated Edison power sub-station on 14th Street, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, in New York. Hurricane Sandy marched slowly inland, leaving millions without power or mass transit, with huge swatches of the nation\'s largest city unusually vacant and dark. New York was among the hardest hit, with its financial heart in Lower Manhattan shuttered for a second day and seawater cascading into the still-gaping construction pit at the World Trade Center (AP Photo/ John Minchillo) (credit:AP)
NYU Tisch Hospital Evacuated(117 of295)
Medical workers assist a patient into an ambulance during an evacuation of New York University\'s Tisch Hospital, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, in New York. The New York City hospital is moving out more than 200 patients after its backup generator failed when the power was knocked out by a superstorm. (AP Photo/ John Minchillo) (credit:John Minchillo, AP)
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Sveinn Storm pumps water out of his flooded Storm Bros. Ice Cream Factory store in downtown Annapolis, Md. on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. High tide swept over the banks of the city dock, flooding lower Annapolis stores. (AP Photo/Blake Sell) (credit:AP)
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Boats are piled onto each other after hybrid storm Sandy wash them off their stands, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, in Brick, N.J. Sandy, which was downgraded from a Hurricane just before making landfall in New Jersey, left millions without power. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) (credit:AP)
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Damage caused by a fire at Breezy Point is shown Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, in New York. A fire department spokesman says more than 190 firefighters are at the blaze in the Breezy Point section. Fire officials say the blaze was reported around 11 p.m. Monday in an area flooded by the superstorm that began sweeping through earlier. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) (credit:AP)
ConEd Trucks Underwater(121 of295)
Consolidated Edision trucks are submerged on 14th Street near the ConEd power plant, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, in New York. Sandy knocked out power to at least 3.1 million people, and New York\'s main utility said large sections of Manhattan had been plunged into darkness by the storm, with 250,000 customers without power as water pressed into the island from three sides, flooding rail yards, subway tracks, tunnels and roads. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) (credit:John Minchillo, AP)
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A National Guard vehicle drives through the flooded Metropolitan Trailer Park in Moonachie, N.J., Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, in the wake of superstorm Sandy. Sandy arrived along the East Coast and morphed into a huge and problematic system, putting more than 7.5 million homes and businesses in the dark and causing a number of deaths. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle) (credit:AP)
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Andrea Grolon walks through waist-deep water in the Metropolitan Trailer Park in Moonachie, N.J. on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. Grolon, a resident of the trailer park, was wading through oil covered water to help others get to rescue vehicles in the wake of superstorm Sandy. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle (credit:AP)
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The Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Memorial sits in flood waters in downtown Annapolis, Md., Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, after the superstorm and the remnants of Hurricane Sandy passed through Annapolis. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) (credit:AP)
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Glenn Heartley works on his car in a creek in Chincoteague, Va., Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. Heartley and his wife were swept off the road into a shallow creek when superstorm Sandy struck the area Monday. (AP Photo/Steve Helber) (credit:AP)
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Andrea Grolon walks through waist-deep water in the Metropolitan Trailer Park in Moonachie, N.J. on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. Grolon, a resident of the trailer park, was wading through oil covered water to help others get to rescue vehicles in the wake of superstorm Sandy. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle (credit:AP)
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A parking lot full of yellow cabs is flooded as a result of superstorm Sandy on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012 in Hoboken, NJ. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes) (credit:AP)
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A parking lot full of yellow cabs is flooded as a result of superstorm Sandy on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012 in Hoboken, NJ. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes) (credit:AP)
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A tree felled by Hurricane Sandy, crushes a car in New York\'s FInancial District, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. New York City awakened Tuesday to a flooded subway system, shuttered financial markets and hundreds of thousands of people without power a day after a wall of seawater and high winds slammed into the city, destroying buildings and flooding tunnels. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) (credit:AP)
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This photo provided by MTA Bridges and Tunnels shows floodwaters at Metro-North Railroad\'s Croton-Harmon station, in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, in Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y. Sandy, the storm which was downgraded from a hurricane just before making landfall, caused multiple fatalities, halted mass transit and cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses. (AP Photo/ MTA Bridges and Tunnels) MANDATORY CREDIT (credit:AP)
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Ken Esposito, left, helps neighbor and homeowner Rob Hoxie, sandbag his beachfront home before high tide in Milford, Conn., Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. Superstorm Sandy made landfall Monday, and caused multiple fatalities, halted mass transit and cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill) (credit:AP)
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Milford Fire Department Capt. Christopher Waiksnoris checks for residents during another evacuation due to high tide in Milford, Conn., Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. Superstorm Sandy made landfall Monday, and caused multiple fatalities, halted mass transit and cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill) (credit:AP)
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This photo provided by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of the State of New York shows a boat resting on the tracks at Metro-North\'s Ossining Station in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, in Ossining,N.Y. Sandy, the storm which was downgraded from a hurricane just before making landfall, caused multiple fatalities, halted mass transit and cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses. (AP Photo/Metropolitan Transportation Authority of the State of New York) MANDATORY CREDIT (credit:AP)
HMS Bounty Submerged(134 of295)
This photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard shows the HMS Bounty, a 180-foot sailboat, submerged in the Atlantic Ocean during Hurricane Sandy approximately 90 miles southeast of Hatteras, N.C., Monday, Oct. 29, 2012. The Coast Guard rescued 14 of the 16 crew members by helicopter. Hours later, rescuers found one of the missing crew members, but she was unresponsive. They are still searching for the captain. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard, Petty Officer 2nd Class Tim Kuklewski) (credit:Tim Kuklewski, USCG / AP)
Flooded Streets Under The Manhattan Bridge(135 of295)
Streets are flooded under the Manhattan Bridge in the Dumbo section of Brooklyn, N.Y., Monday, Oct. 29, 2012.Sandy continued on its path Monday, as the storm forced the shutdown of mass transit, schools and financial markets, sending coastal residents fleeing, and threatening a dangerous mix of high winds and soaking rain. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews) (credit:Bebeto Matthews, AP)
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People brace against a gust from Hurricane Sandy in Brooklyn\'s Dumbo neighborhood Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, in New York. Residents of the neighborhood were ordered to evacuate because of the storm surge expected from the hurricane. Authorities warned that New York City and Long Island could get the worst of the storm surge: an 11-foot onslaught of seawater that could swamp lower areas of the city. (credit:Bebeto Matthews, AP)
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Sand and debris covers the streets near the water in Atlantic City, N.J., Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. Sandy, the storm which was downgraded from a hurricane just before making landfall, caused multiple fatalities, halted mass transit and cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) (credit:AP)
West New York, N.J.(141 of295)
Wind-blown mist from the Hudson River along with driving rain in West New York, N.J. fills the air Monday, Oct. 29, 2012 as Hurricane Sandy lashed the East Coast. The Manhattan borough of New York is in the background. (credit:Craig Ruttle, AP)
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Lindenhurst, N.Y.(145 of295)
People wade and paddle down a flooded street as Hurricane Sandy approaches, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, in Lindenhurst, N.Y. Gaining speed and power through the day, the storm knocked out electricity to more than 1 million people and figured to upend life for tens of millions more. (credit:Jason DeCrow, AP)
Scituate, Mass(146 of295)
A dog looks out from an open window as its owner takes pictures from a car parked near the seawall in Scituate, Mass. Monday, Oct. 29, 2012. Hurricane Sandy continued on its path Monday, as the storm forced the shutdown of mass transit, schools and financial markets, sending coastal residents fleeing, and threatening a dangerous mix of high winds and soaking rain. (credit:Elise Amendola, AP)
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The number 1 subway train station is blocked by sandbags at Battery Park in New York Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, in preparation for a possible storm surge as Hurricane Sandy approaches the East Coast. Hurricane Sandy continued on its path Monday, forcing the shutdown of mass transit, schools and financial markets, sending coastal residents fleeing, and threatening a dangerous mix of high winds and soaking rain. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle) (credit:AP)
Cape May, N.J.(148 of295)
Rough surf of the Atlantic Ocean breaks over the beach and across Beach Ave., Monday morning, Oct. 29, 2012, in Cape May, N.J., as high tide and Hurricane Sandy begin to arrive. Hurricane Sandy continued on its path Monday, forcing the shutdown of mass transit, schools and financial markets, sending coastal residents fleeing, and threatening a dangerous mix of high winds and soaking rain. (Mel Evans, AP) (credit:Mel Evans, AP)
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Waves wash over the seawall near high tide at Battery Park in New York, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, as Hurricane Sandy approaches the East Coast. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle) (credit:AP)
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In Baltimore\'s Fells Point waterfront neighborhood, some streets near the harbor, normally filled with the cars of residents and visitors, are deserted Monday morning, Oct. 29, 2012 as city officials ordered cars to be moved from low-lying areas. Hurricane Sandy continued on its path Monday, forcing the shutdown of mass transit, schools and financial markets, sending coastal residents fleeing, and threatening a dangerous mix of high winds and soaking rain. (AP Photo/Alex Dominguez) (credit:AP)
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Brandon White of Watermark, a tour and charter boat company, ties one of the company\'s boats to a pier in Annapolis, Md. as Hurricane Sandy approaches the East Coast Monday, Oct. 29, 2012. Hurricane Sandy continued on its path Monday, forcing the shutdown of mass transit, schools and financial markets, sending coastal residents fleeing, and threatening a dangerous mix of high winds and soaking rain. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark) (credit:AP)
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With only a security officer in the station, sandbags block the entry to the closed Staten Island Ferry in New York Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, all public transportation has been shut down as Hurricane Sandy approaches the East Coast. Hurricane Sandy continued on its path Monday, forcing the shutdown of mass transit, schools and financial markets, sending coastal residents fleeing, and threatening a dangerous mix of high winds and soaking rain. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle) (credit:AP)
Hurricane Sandy Bears Down On U.S. Mid-Atlantic Coastline(153 of295)
CAPE MAY, NJ - OCTOBER 29: Waters from Hurricane Sandy start to flood Beach Ave. on October 29, 2012 in Cape May, New Jersey. Later today the full force of Hurricane Sandy is expected to hit the New Jersey coastline bringing heavy winds and floodwaters. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Sandbags block the entry to the closed Staten Island Ferry in New York Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, as all public transportation has been shut down as Hurricane Sandy approaches the East Coast. Hurricane Sandy continued on its path Monday, forcing the shutdown of mass transit, schools and financial markets, sending coastal residents fleeing, and threatening a dangerous mix of high winds and soaking rain. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle) (credit:AP)
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Lamar Chambers watches waves as winds from hurricane Sandy reach Seaside Park in Bridgeport, Conn., Monday, Oct. 29, 2012. Hurricane Sandy continued on its path Monday, forcing the shutdown of mass transit, schools and financial markets, sending coastal residents fleeing, and threatening a dangerous mix of high winds and soaking rain. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill) (credit:AP)
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Rough surf of the Atlantic Ocean breaks over the dunes Monday morning, Oct. 29, 2012, in Cape May, N.J., as high tide and Hurricane Sandy begin to arrive. Hurricane Sandy continued on its path Monday, forcing the shutdown of mass transit, schools and financial markets, sending coastal residents fleeing, and threatening a dangerous mix of high winds and soaking rain. (AP Photo/Mel Evans) (credit:AP)
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Waves crash over the bow of a tug boat as it passes near the Statue of Liberty in New York Monday, Oct. 29, 2012 as rough water as the result of Hurricane Sandy churned the waters of New York Harbor. Hurricane Sandy continued on its path Monday, forcing the shutdown of mass transit, schools and financial markets, sending coastal residents fleeing, and threatening a dangerous mix of high winds and soaking rain. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle) (credit:AP)
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NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 29: People take pictures on the Rockaway Beach Boulevard as Hurricane Sandy begins to affect the area on October 29, 2012 in the Queens borough of New York City. The storm, which threatens 50 million people in the eastern third of the U.S., is expected to bring days of rain, high winds and possibly heavy snow. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the closure of all New York City\'s bus, subway and commuter rail service as of Sunday evening. (Photo by Allison Joyce/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 29: Dark clouds are seen over the skyline of Manhattan as as Hurricane Sandy begins to affect the area on October 29, 2012 in New York City. The storm, which threatens 50 million people in the eastern third of the U.S., is expected to bring days of rain, high winds and possibly heavy snow. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the closure of all New York City will bus, subway and commuter rail service as of Sunday evening. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 29: People walk across the Brooklyn Bridge as Hurricane Sandy begins to affect the area on October 29, 2012 in New York City. The storm, which threatens 50 million people in the eastern third of the U.S., is expected to bring days of rain, high winds and possibly heavy snow. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the closure of all New York City will bus, subway and commuter rail service as of Sunday evening. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 29: The closed New York Stock Exchange is barricaded with sand bags during the arrival of Hurricane Sandy on October 29, 2012 in New York City. The core of Sandy\'s force is supposed to hit the New York area Monday night. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 29: A man watches the waves in New York Harbor from Battery Park during the arrival of Hurricane Sandy on October 29, 2012 in New York City. The core of Sandy\'s force is supposed to hit the New York area Monday night. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 29: A wave crashes over the hull of a tugboat in New York Harbor during the arrival of Hurricane Sandy on October 29, 2012 in New York City. The core of Sandy\'s force is supposed to hit the New York area Monday night. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 29: A man walks past a barricaded subway entrance near Battery Park during the arrival of Hurricane Sandy on October 29, 2012 in New York City. The core of Sandy\'s force is supposed to hit the New York area Monday night. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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CAPE MAY, NJ - OCTOBER 29: The Cape May Lighthouse can be seen as heavy surf from Hurricane Sandy pounds the shoreline on October 29, 2012 in Cape May, New Jersey. Later today the full force of Hurricane Sandy is expected to hit the New Jersey coastline bringing heavy winds and floodwaters. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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CAPE MAY, NJ - OCTOBER 29: People walk across Beach Ave. as flood waters from Hurricane Sandy rush in on October 29, 2012 in Cape May, New Jersey. Later today the full force of Hurricane Sandy is expected to hit the New Jersey coastline bringing heavy winds and floodwaters. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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ATLANTIC CITY, NJ - OCTOBER 29: Flood waters begin to flood a street near the ocean ahead of Hurricane Sandy on October 29, 2012 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Governor Chris Christie’s emergency declaration is shutting down the city’s casinos and 30,000 residents were ordered to evacuate. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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ATLANTIC CITY, NJ - OCTOBER 29: Water floods a street ahead of Hurricane Sandy on October 29, 2012 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Governor Chris Christie’s emergency declaration is shutting down the city’s casinos and 30,000 residents were ordered to evacuate. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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ATLANTIC CITY, NJ - OCTOBER 29: A car sits in a flooded street near the ocean ahead of Hurricane Sandy on October 29, 2012 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Governor Chris Christie’s emergency declaration is shutting down the city’s casinos and 30,000 residents were ordered to evacuate. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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ATLANTIC CITY, NJ - OCTOBER 29: A car sits in a flooded street near the ocean ahead of Hurricane Sandy on October 29, 2012 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Governor Chris Christie’s emergency declaration is shutting down the city’s casinos and 30,000 residents were ordered to evacuate. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images (credit:Getty Images)
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Norfolk resident Jack Devnew and his dog check on his boat at a marina near downtown Norfolk, Va., Monday, Oct. 29, 2012. Rain and wind from Hurricane Sandy are hitting the area. (Steve Helber, AP) (credit:Steve Helber, AP)
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Police and firefighters respond to a downed street light on FDR drive, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, in New York. Hurricane Sandy continued on its path Monday, forcing the shutdown of mass transit, schools and financial markets, sending coastal residents fleeing, and threatening a dangerous mix of high winds and soaking rain. (Mel Evans, AP) (credit:Mel Evans, AP)
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Richard Thomas walks through the flood waters in front of his home after assisting neighbors as Hurricane Sandy bears down on the East Coast, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, in Fenwick Island, Del. Forecasters warned that the New York City region could face the worst of Hurricane Sandy as it bore down on the U.S. East Coast\'s largest cities Monday, forcing the shutdown of financial markets and mass transit, sending coastal residents fleeing and threatening high winds, rain and a wall of water up to 11 feet (3.35 meters) tall. It could endanger up to 50 million people for days. (Alex Brandon, AP) (credit:Alex Brandon, AP)
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A pedestrian walks her dog through a working crew as they stack sandbags beside concrete barriers to protect buildings near the World Financial Center in anticipation of massive flooding, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, in New York. Hurricane Sandy bore down on the Eastern Seaboard\'s largest cities Monday, forcing the shutdown of mass transit, schools and financial markets, sending coastal residents fleeing, and threatening a dangerous mix of high winds, soaking rain and a seawater surge of anywhere from 6 to 11 feet. (John Minchillo, AP) (credit:John Minchillo, AP)
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Rough surf of the Atlantic Ocean breaks over the beach onto the Beach Ave., Monday morning, Oct. 29, 2012, in Cape May, N.J., as high tide and Hurricane Sandy begin to arrive. Hurricane Sandy continued on its path Monday, forcing the shutdown of mass transit, schools and financial markets, sending coastal residents fleeing, and threatening a dangerous mix of high winds and soaking rain. (Mel Evans, AP) (credit:Mel Evans, AP)
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Residents fill sandbags in Baltimore\'s Fells Point neighborhood Monday, Oct. 29, 2012 in preparation for Hurricane Sandy. Hurricane Sandy continued on its path Monday, forcing the shutdown of mass transit, schools and financial markets, sending coastal residents fleeing, and threatening a dangerous mix of high winds and soaking rain. (Alex Dominguez, AP) (credit:Alex Dominguez, AP)
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A stranded car sits parked along a street near downtown Norfolk, Va., Monday, Oct. 29, 2012. Rain and wind from Hurricane Sandy are hitting the area. (Steve Helber, AP) (credit:Steve Helber, AP)
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Waves wash over the seawall near high tide at Battery Park in New York, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, as Hurricane Sandy approaches the East Coast. (Craig Ruttle, AP) (credit:Craig Ruttle, AP)
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Al Daisey walks in the flood water in front of his home as Hurricane Sandy bears down on the East Coast, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, in Fenwick Island, Del. Forecasters warned that the New York City region could face the worst of Hurricane Sandy as it bore down on the U.S. East Coast\'s largest cities Monday, forcing the shutdown of financial markets and mass transit, sending coastal residents fleeing and threatening high winds, rain and a wall of water up to 11 feet (3.35 meters) tall. It could endanger up to 50 million people for days. (Alex Brandon, AP) (credit:Alex Brandon, AP)
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Sandbags protect an entrance of the New York Stock Exchange, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012. Hurricane Sandy continued on its path Monday, forcing the shutdown of mass transit, schools and financial markets, sending coastal residents fleeing, and threatening a dangerous mix of high winds and soaking rain. There had been plans to allow electronic trading to go forward on the New York Stock Exchange but with a storm surge expected to cover parts of lower Manhattan in water, officials decided late Sunday that it was too risky to ask any personnel to staff the exchanges. (Richard Drew, AP) (credit:Richard Drew, AP)
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Mark Palazzolo, owner of a bait and tackle shop on the Manasquan Inlet in Point Pleasant Beach, N.J., sits next to wood he has used to board up his business in previous major storms, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012, in Point Pleasant Beach, N.J. Of Hurricane Sandy, he said, \"I think this is going to do us in.\" (AP Photo/Wayne Parry) (credit:AP)
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One-year-old Ever Long and her dog, Bailey, peek out the back door of their boarded house for the coming storm as some prepare for the approaching Hurricane Sandy, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012 in Bay View Beach, Del. (AP Photo/The Wilmington News-Journal, Suchat Pederson) (credit:AP)
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Sand is piled into barriers at Coney Island beach in New York Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012 as Hurricane Sandy approaches. Areas along the Northeast Coast are preparing for a possible flooding as the superstorm nears. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle) (credit:AP)
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Matison Cos, 3, tries to stay warm and dry along the Rehoboth Beach boardwalk as her family come to see the approaching Hurricane Sandy in Rehoboth Beach, Del., Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/The News Journal, Suchat Pederson) (credit:AP)
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Michael Bolick works on the roof of his friend Chris Villarreal\'s house Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012, in Sunset Park, N.C. Forecasters say Hurricane Sandy is a couple of hundred miles off the North Carolina coast and the center of the storm is expected to be near the mid-Atlantic coast on Monday night. The National Hurricane Center said Sunday afternoon that the storm has winds of 75 mph. Hurricane-force winds extend up to 175 miles from the storm\'s center. (AP Photo/The Star-News, Jeff Janowski) (credit:AP)
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Michael Bolick works on the roof of his friend Chris Villarreal\'s house Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012, in Sunset Park, N.C. Forecasters say Hurricane Sandy is a couple of hundred miles off the North Carolina coast and the center of the storm is expected to be near the mid-Atlantic coast on Monday night. The National Hurricane Center said Sunday afternoon that the storm has winds of 75 mph. Hurricane-force winds extend up to 175 miles from the storm\'s center. (AP Photo/The Star-News, Jeff Janowski) (credit:AP)
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Red Cross workers set up cots inside the West Philadelphia High School Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012 in Philadelphia. The school is being used as one of the city\'s shelters for residents as Hurricane Sandy makes its way up the Atlantic on a collision course with two other weather systems that could turn it into one of the most fearsome storms on record in the U.S. (AP Photo/Philadelphia Inquirer, Charles Fox) PHIX OUT; TV OUT; MAGS OUT; NEWARK OUT (credit:AP)
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Teresa Perez of Buxton, N.C., runs off a sand dune near Cape Hatteras Lighthouse on Hatteras Island Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012, as Hurricane Sandy works its way north, battering the U.S. East Coast. (AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, Steve Earley) (credit:AP)
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Jessica Ospina, left, and Allison Kane of Virginia Beach, Va., lean into the strong wind and rain off the Chesapeake Bay near the Chesapeake Bay Bridge tunnel in Virginia Beach, vA., as Hurricane Sandy works its way north on Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, L. Todd Spencer) (credit:AP)
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High winds blow sea foam onto Jeanette\'s Pier in Nags Head, N.C., Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012 as wind and rain from Hurricane Sandy move into the area. Governors from North Carolina, where steady rains were whipped by gusting winds Saturday night, to Connecticut declared states of emergency. Delaware ordered mandatory evacuations for coastal communities by 8 p.m. Sunday. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome) (credit:AP)
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A Hoboken University Medical Center patient is transported into an ambulance during a mandatory evacuation of all ground floor units in anticipation of incoming Hurricane Sandy, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012, in Hoboken, N.J. Tens of thousands of people were ordered to evacuate coastal areas Sunday as big cities and small towns across the U.S. Northeast braced for the onslaught of a superstorm threatening some 60 million people along the most heavily populated corridor in the nation. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) (credit:AP)
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A road sign warns drivers of weather conditions in downtown Washington, DC October 28, 2012 ahead of Hurricane Sandy\'s landfall. US emergency officials braced for the potentially massive impact of a so-called \'Frankenstorm\' Sunday as Hurricane Sandy lumbered north in the Atlantic Ocean, poised to hit the Eastern Seaboard with torrential rains and gale-force winds. The superstorm was expected to make landfall somewhere between Virginia and Massachusetts early Tuesday, possibly causing chaos during the frenzied last days of campaigning before the November 6 US presidential vote. AFP PHOTO / Eva HAMBACH (Photo credit should read EVA HAMBACH/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 28: A sign announcing the temporary closure of the New York subway system, due to Hurricane Sandy, is seen in the subway prior to the arrival of Hurricane Sandy on October 28, 2012 in New York City. New York plans on shutting down the entire public transmit system starting at 7PM, Sunday night. Sandy, which has already claimed over 50 lives in the Caribbean, is predicted to bring heavy winds and floodwaters as the mid-atlantic region prepares for the damage. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 28: New York City police officers speak with women as they go door to door in a housing project to take note of which residents are ignoring the mandatory evacuation order as Hurricane Sandy approaches on October 28, 2012 in the Rockaway Beach neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a mandatory evacuation on low-lying coastal areas of the city. Sandy, which has already claimed over 50 lives in the Caribbean is predicted to bring heavy winds and floodwaters to the mid-Atlantic region. (Photo by Allison Joyce/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 28: New York City police officers go door to door in a housing project to take note of which residents are ignoring the mandatory evacuation order as Hurricane Sandy approaches on October 28, 2012 in the Rockaway Beach neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a mandatory evacuation on low-lying coastal areas of the city. Sandy, which has already claimed over 50 lives in the Caribbean is predicted to bring heavy winds and floodwaters to the mid-Atlantic region. (Photo by Allison Joyce/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 28: A New York City police officer speaks to a man as he goes door to door in a housing project to take note of which residents are ignoring the mandatory evacuation order as Hurricane Sandy approaches on October 28, 2012 in the Rockaway Beach neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a mandatory evacuation on low-lying coastal areas of the city. Sandy, which has already claimed over 50 lives in the Caribbean is predicted to bring heavy winds and floodwaters to the mid-Atlantic region. (Photo by Allison Joyce/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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HICKSVILLE, NY - OCTOBER 28: With Hurricane Sandy approaching, the Long Island Railroad announced the suspension of their service at 7pm on Sunday night, October 28, 2012 in Hicksville, New York. Sandy, which has already claimed over 50 lives in the Caribbean is predicted to bring heavy winds and floodwaters as the mid-atlantic region prepares for the damage. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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ATLANTIC CITY, NJ - OCTOBER 28: Waves break ahead of Hurricane Sandy on October 28, 2012 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Governor Chris Christie’s emergency declaration is shutting down the city’s casinos and 30,000 residents are being told to evacuate. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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BAYVILLE, NY - OCTOBER 28: As Hurricane Sandy approaches, resident take pictures of the elevated surf on the Long Island Sound on October 28, 2012 in Bayville, New York. Sandy, which has already claimed over 50 lives in the Caribbean is predicted to bring heavy winds and floodwaters as the mid-atlantic region prepares for the damage. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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OYSTER BAY, NY - OCTOBER 28: The North Shore Community Church displays a sign alluding to Hurricane Sandy on October 28, 2012 in Oyster Bay, New York. Sandy, which has already claimed over 50 lives in the Caribbean is predicted to bring heavy winds and floodwaters as the mid-atlantic region prepares for the damage. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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ATLANTIC CITY, NJ - OCTOBER 28: Sand blows on the beach ahead of Hurricane Sandy on October 28, 2012 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Governor Chris Christie’s emergency declaration is shutting down the city’s casinos and 30,000 residents are being told to evacuate. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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MTA Police watch over as the last people are cleared out of Grand Central Station in New York October 28, 2012 as the MTA has been began an orderly shutdown of commuter rail and subway service in preparation for Hurricane Sandy . AFP PHOTO / TIMOTHY A. CLARY (Photo credit should read TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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A man runs for the last Metro North Train as MTA Police watch over as the last people are cleared out of Grand Central Station in New York October 28, 2012 as the MTA has been began an orderly shutdown of commuter rail and subway service in preparation for Hurricane Sandy . AFP PHOTO / TIMOTHY A. CLARY (Photo credit should read TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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HICKSVILLE, NY - OCTOBER 28: With Hurricane Sandy approaching, the Long Island Railroad announced the suspension of their service at 7pm on Sunday night, October 28, 2012 in Hicksville, New York. Sandy, which has already claimed over 50 lives in the Caribbean is predicted to bring heavy winds and floodwaters as the mid-atlantic region prepares for the damage. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Commuters wait for trains under sign on dispay in Grand Central Station in New York October 28, 2012 as the MTA has been began an orderly shutdown of commuter rail and subway service in preparation for Hurricane Sandy. AFP PHOTO / TIMOTHY A. CLARY (Photo credit should read TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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AT SEA - OCTOBER 28: In this handout satellite image provided by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Hurricane Sandy, pictured at 00:15 UTC, churns off the east coast on October 28, 2012 in the Atlantic Ocean. Sandy which has already claimed over 50 lives in the Caribbean is predicted to bring heavy winds and floodwaters to the mid-atlantic region. (Photo by NASA via Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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AT SEA - OCTOBER 28: In this handout satellite image provided by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Hurricane Sandy, pictured at 00:15 UTC, churns off the east coast on October 28, 2012 in the Atlantic Ocean. Sandy which has already claimed over 50 lives in the Caribbean is predicted to bring heavy winds and floodwaters to the mid-atlantic region. (Photo by NASA via Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Ocean water rolls over state highway NC 12 in Buxton, N.C., on Hatteras Island at dawn on Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012, as Hurricane Sandy works its way north, battering the U.S. East Coast. (AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, Steve Earley) (credit:AP)
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Jessica Ospina, left, and Allison Kane of Virginia Beach, Va., lean into the strong wind and rain off the Chesapeake Bay near the Chesapeake Bay Bridge tunnel in Virginia Beach, vA., as Hurricane Sandy works its way north on Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, L. Todd Spencer) (credit:AP)
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Ambulances line up near the Hoboken University Medical Center, where patients were evacuated in anticipation of Hurricane Sandy, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012, in Hoboken, N.J. Tens of thousands of people were ordered to evacuate coastal areas Sunday as big cities and small towns across the U.S. Northeast braced for the onslaught of a superstorm threatening some 60 million people along the most heavily populated corridor in the nation. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) (credit:AP)
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Bill Ryan, of Inwood, N.Y., comforts his cat Amy before leaving her at a pet shelter at Mitchell Park\'s Field House, run by the Nassau County Office of Emergency Management and Pet Safe Coalition on Sunday, Oct., 28, 2012, in Uniondale, N.Y. Pet owners could drop of their pets at the shelter and afterwards seek shelter for themselves. before the arrival of Hurricane Sandy. Ryan planned to stay at Nassau Community College, one of numerous shelters throughout Nassau County. (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek) (credit:AP)
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A Hoboken University Medical Center patient is transported into an ambulance during a mandatory evacuation of all ground floor units in anticipation of incoming Hurricane Sandy, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012, in Hoboken, N.J. Tens of thousands of people were ordered to evacuate coastal areas Sunday as big cities and small towns across the U.S. Northeast braced for the onslaught of a superstorm threatening some 60 million people along the most heavily populated corridor in the nation. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) (credit:AP)
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ATLANTIC CITY, NJ - OCTOBER 28: A loader makes a sand barrier on the beach to help stop storm surge from approaching Hurricane Sandy on October 28, 2012 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie ordered Atlantic City\'s 12 casinos to shut down and surrounding states have also declared a state of emergency. Sandy, which has already claimed over 50 lives in the Caribbean, is expected to hit the New Jersey coastline sometime on Monday bring heavy winds and floodwaters. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Floodwaters run over Route 9 near Bay View Beach as residents prepare for the approaching Hurricane Sandy, in Bay View Beach, Del., Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/The News Journal, Suchat Pederson) (credit:AP)
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Sand is piled into barriers at Coney Island beach in New York Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012 as Hurricane Sandy approaches. Areas along the Northeast Coast are preparing for a possible flooding as the superstorm nears. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle) (credit:AP)
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A car plows through a flooded street in the Ocean View area in Norfolk, VA., Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. Rain and wind from Hurricane Sandy are hitting the area. Tens of thousands of people were ordered to evacuate coastal areas Sunday as big cities and small towns across the U.S. Northeast braced for the onslaught of a superstorm threatening some 60 million people along the most heavily populated corridor in the nation. (AP Photo/Steve Helber) (credit:AP)
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WILDWOOD, NJ - OCTOBER 28: Workers secure a store front to help minimize wind damage from approaching hurricane Sandy, on October 28, 2012 in Wildwood, New Jersey. Hurricane Sandy is expected to hit the New Jersey coastline sometime on Monday bringing heavy winds and floodwaters. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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US President Barack Obama receives a briefing on hurricane Sandy at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in Washington on October 28, 2012. On right is FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate. AFP PHOTO/Nicholas KAMM (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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DC Water employees fill bags with sand in downtown Washington, DC October 28, 2012 ahead of Hurricane Sandy\'s landfall as flooding was expected throughout parts of the US capital. US emergency officials braced for the potentially massive impact of a so-called \'Frankenstorm\' Sunday as Hurricane Sandy lumbered north in the Atlantic Ocean, poised to hit the Eastern Seaboard with torrential rains and gale-force winds. The superstorm was expected to make landfall somewhere between Virginia and Massachusetts early in the week, possibly causing chaos during the frenzied last days of campaigning before the November 6 US presidential vote. AFP PHOTO / Eva HAMBACH (Photo credit should read EVA HAMBACH/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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ATLANTIC CITY, NJ - OCTOBER 28: Sand blows on the beach ahead of Hurricane Sandy on October 28, 2012 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Governor Chris Christie’s emergency declaration is shutting down the city’s casinos and 30,000 residents are being told to evacuate. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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A man walks amid the destruction caused by hurricane Sandy in Cueto, Bayamo, 750 km east of Havana, on October 25, 2012. Hurricane Sandy claimed 11 lives as it tore across Cuba Thursday, leaving a path of destruction in the eastern part of the island, officials in Havana said. AFP PHOTO/STR (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Fallen palm trees lie on a road after the hurricane Sandy in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, Thursday Oct. 25, 2012. Hurricane Sandy blasted across eastern Cuba on Thursday as a potent Category 2 storm and headed for the Bahamas after causing at least two deaths in the Caribbean. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes) (credit:AP)
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Metropolitan Transportation Authority workers cover subway ventilation grates with plywood to help prevent flooding at South Ferry, Friday, Oct. 26, 2012 in New York. People on the Eastern Seaboard are bracing for a rare megastorm that experts said would cause much greater havoc than Hurricane Irene. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) (credit:AP)
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A restaurant worker piles sand bags at the entrance of the business as Hurricane Sandy approaches the Atlantic Coast, in Ocean City, Md., on Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) (credit:AP)
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Senior hurricane specialist Dan Brown, right, points to a satellite image of Sandy to James Franklin, chief hurricane specialist, in preparation of the 11:00 EDT advisory at the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012. Early Saturday, the storm was about 335 miles southeast of Charleston, S.C. Tropical storm warnings were issued for parts of Florida\'s East Coast, along with parts of coastal North and South Carolina and the Bahamas. Tropical storm watches were issued for coastal Georgia and parts of South Carolina, along with parts of Florida and Bermuda. Sandy is projected to hit the Atlantic Coast early Tuesday. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz) (credit:AP)
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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) (credit:AP)
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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) (credit:AP)
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Workers Shannon Alexander, left, and Don Bruce board up the windows of an apartment building as Hurricane Sandy approaches the Atlantic Coast, in Ocean City, Md., on Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) (credit:AP)
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Resident Brian Dougherty looks at the waves from the beach in Ocean City, Md., as Hurricane Sandy approaches the Atlantic Coast, on Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) (credit:AP)
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ADDS NAME OF STORE MANAGER - Store manager L.P. Cyburt, right, gets help boarding up the windows of the business as Hurricane Sandy approaches the Atlantic Coast, in Ocean City, Md., on Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) (credit:AP)
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A resident of Leogane, Haiti makes her way to her home as the water level continues to rise Friday, Oct. 26, 2012. Residents of Leogane have had five consecutive days of rain in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, which caused serious flooding and claimed at least 26 lives in the impoverished country. (AP Photo/The Miami Herald, Carl Juste) MAGS OUT (credit:AP)
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Residents wade through a flooded street caused by heavy rains from Hurricane Sandy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. Hurricane Sandy rumbled across mountainous eastern Cuba and headed toward the Bahamas on Thursday as a Category 2 storm, bringing heavy rains and blistering winds. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery) (credit:AP)
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A man walks amid the destruction caused by hurricane Sandy in Mayari, Holguin, 750 km east of Havana, on October 26, 2012. Hurricane Sandy claimed 11 lives as it tore across Cuba Thursday, leaving a path of destruction in the eastern part of the island, officials in Havana said. AFP PHOTO/STR (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Men walk amid the destruction caused by hurricane Sandy in Mayari, Holguin, 750 km east of Havana, on October 26, 2012. Hurricane Sandy claimed 11 lives as it tore across Cuba Thursday, leaving a path of destruction in the eastern part of the island, officials in Havana said. AFP PHOTO/STR (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Men walk amid the destruction caused by hurricane Sandy in Mayari, Holguin, 750 km east of Havana, on October 26, 2012. Hurricane Sandy claimed 11 lives as it tore across Cuba Thursday, leaving a path of destruction in the eastern part of the island, officials in Havana said. AFP PHOTO/STR (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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A man removes mud from his tap tap with flood water caused by heavy rains from Hurricane Sandy, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012 in La Plaine, Haiti, as residents of the Port-au-Prince neighbor tried to recover from the aftermath of the storm, which claimed three lives. Hurricane Sandy roared across Cuba overnight, making landfall as a powerful 115-mph storm. Haiti\'s capital, Port-au-Prince is still feeling the ripple effects, with gusty rain continuing as the Sandy makes its way towards the Bahamas. (AP Photo/The Miami Herald, Carl Juste) MAGS OUT (credit:AP)
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Locals walk across the flooded streets of La Plaine, Haiti, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012, after Hurricane Sandy caused flooding and claimed three lives. Hurricane Sandy roared across Cuba overnight, making landfall as a powerful 115-mph storm. Haiti\'s capital, Port-au-Prince is still feeling the ripple effects, with gusty continuing rain as the Sandy makes its way towards the Bahamas. (AP Photo/The Miami Herald, Carl Juste) MAGS OUT (credit:AP)
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A map indicates Hurricane Sandy\'s position moving through the Bahamas off the east coast of Florida on Friday, Oct. 26, 2012, at the National Hurricane Center in Miami. Hurricane Sandy left 21 people dead as it moved through the Caribbean, following a path that could see it blend with a winter storm and reach the U.S. East Coast as a super-storm next week. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) (credit:AP)
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In this image taken by NOAA\'s GOES East at 2:45 GMT on Friday, Oct. 26, 2012, Hurricane Sandy is seen in the center bottom. The hurricane has killed at least 20 people in the Caribbean, and just left the Bahamas. It is expected to move north, just off the Eastern Seaboard. When Hurricane Sandy becomes a hybrid weather monster some call \"Frankenstorm\" it will smack the East Coast harder and wider than last year\'s damaging Irene, forecasters said Friday. (AP Photo/NOAA) (credit:AP)
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A UN Peacekeeper stands watch near a bridge washed away by heavy rains from Hurricane Sandy October 25, 2012 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Hurricane Sandy barreled toward the Bahamas Thursday as a powerful category two storm, after battering Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba and claiming three lives so far. The US-based National Hurricane Center said the storm was packing winds of up to 105 miles (165 kilometers) per hour as it moved north, near the top of the category two range on the five-rung Saffir-Simpson wind scale. Forecasters predicted the storm would weaken somewhat over the next 48 hours. But Sandy will remain a hurricane as it passes over the Bahamas, according to the NHC\'s 1500 GMT advisory. THONY BELIZAIRE/AFP/Getty Images (credit:Getty Images)
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Many sweeps the muddy water from his small business in La Plaine, Haiti, as residents try to recover from the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. Hurricane Sandy roared across Cuba overnight, making landfall as a powerful 115-mph storm. Haiti\'s capital, Port-au-Prince is still feeling the ripple effects, with gusty rain continuing as the Sandy makes its way towards the Bahamas. (AP Photo/The Miami Herald, Carl Juste) MAGS OUT (credit:AP)
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A woman stands at the entrance of her house in front of a fallen palm tree after the passing of Hurricane Sandy in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, Thursday Oct. 25, 2012. Hurricane Sandy blasted across eastern Cuba on Thursday as a potent Category 2 storm and headed for the Bahamas after causing at least two deaths in the Caribbean. (credit:AP)
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Fallen trees lie on the street after the passing of Hurricane Sandy in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, Thursday Oct. 25, 2012. Hurricane Sandy blasted across eastern Cuba on Thursday as a potent Category 2 storm and headed for the Bahamas after causing at least two deaths in the Caribbean. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes) (credit:AP)
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A fallen placard lies on the ground after the passing of Hurricane Sandy in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, Thursday Oct. 25, 2012. Hurricane Sandy blasted across eastern Cuba on Thursday as a potent Category 2 storm and headed for the Bahamas after causing at least two deaths in the Caribbean. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes) (credit:AP)
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A woman washes her clothes in front of her damaged house after the passing of Hurricane Sandy in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, Thursday Oct. 25, 2012. Hurricane Sandy blasted across eastern Cuba on Thursday as a potent Category 2 storm and headed for the Bahamas after causing at least two deaths in the Caribbean. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes) (credit:AP)
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Resident Antonio Garces tries to recover his belongings from his house destroyed by Hurricane Sandy in Aguacate, Cuba, Thursday Oct. 25, 2012. Hurricane Sandy blasted across eastern Cuba on Thursday as a potent Category 2 storm and headed for the Bahamas after causing at least two deaths in the Caribbean. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes) (credit:AP)
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This NOAA satellite image taken Friday, Oct. 26, 2012 at 01:45 AM EDT shows Hurricane Sandy moving NNW through the northern Bahamas with a broad cloud shield covering the southeastern Atlantic Basin into the northern Caribbean.(AP Photo/Weather Underground) (credit:AP)
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This NOAA satellite image taken Friday, Oct. 26, 2012 at 01:45 AM EDT shows Hurricane Sandy over northern Bahamas with cloudiness across Florida and the southeastern Atlantic Basin into the northern Caribbean. A well defined frontal boundary over the central Great Lakes extending southwest to Texas with rain showers and a few embedded thunderstorms(AP Photo/Weather Underground) (credit:AP)
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Cubans clear of debris their house, partially demolished by Hurricane Sandy, on October 25, 2012 in Guantanamo, Cuba. SOLER COSTAFREDA/AFP/Getty Images (credit:Getty Images)
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A man walks amid ruins of a home destroyed by Hurricane Sandy in Gibara, Cuba, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. Hurricane Sandy blasted across eastern Cuba on Thursday as a potent Category 2 storm and headed for the Bahamas after causing at least two deaths in the Caribbean. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes) (credit:AP)
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A man rides his bicycle under the arc made by a tree knocked down by Hurricane Sandy in Gibara, Cuba, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. Hurricane Sandy blasted across eastern Cuba on Thursday as a potent Category 2 storm and headed for the Bahamas after causing at least two deaths in the Caribbean. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes) (credit:AP)
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Residents wade through a street flooded by heavy rains from Hurricane Sandy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. Hurricane Sandy rumbled across mountainous eastern Cuba and headed toward the Bahamas on Thursday as a Category 2 storm, bringing heavy rains and blistering winds. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery) (credit:AP)
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Big waves caused by hurricane Sandy along the south coast of Santo Domingo on October 24, 2012. ERIKA SANTELICES/AFP/Getty Images (credit:Getty Images)
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The sea wall and a road is partially damaged after the passing of Hurricane Sandy in Gibara, Cuba, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. Hurricane Sandy blasted across eastern Cuba on Thursday as a potent Category 2 storm and headed for the Bahamas after causing at least two deaths in the Caribbean. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes) (credit:AP)
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Residents evacuate their home as waves crash in the Caribbean Terrace neighborhood of eastern Kingston, Jamaica, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. Hurricane Sandy pounded Jamaica with heavy rain as it headed for landfall near the country\'s most populous city on a track that would carry it across the Caribbean island to Cuba, and a possible threat to Florida. (AP Photo/Collin Reid) (credit:AP)
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Waves, brought by Hurricane Sandy, crash on a house in the Caribbean Terrace neighborhood in eastern Kingston, Jamaica, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. Hurricane Sandy pounded Jamaica with heavy rain as it headed for landfall near the country\'s most populous city on a track that would carry it across the Caribbean island to Cuba, and a possible threat to Florida. (AP Photo/Collin Reid) (credit:AP)
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Big waves caused by hurricane Sandy along the south coast of Santo Domingo on October 24, 2012. ERIKA SANTELICES/AFP/Getty Images (credit:Getty Images)
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An overflowed river near Bayamo, 740 km east of Havana, on October 24, 2012 as the residents of eastern Cuba prepare for the arrival of Hurricane Sandy. Hurricane conditions were expected in eastern Cuba in the evening, with the storm set to pass over the Bahamas Thursday and Friday, according to the NHC, which warned that conditions were \'deteriorating\' in Jamaica. STR/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Dominican school children walk in the flooded streets of Santo Domingo before the arrival of Hurricane Sandy on October 24, 2012. The category one hurricane on the five-level Saffir-Simpson scale was forecast to dump up to 12 inches of rain across Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Haiti and eastern Cuba. ERIKA SANTELICES/AFP/Getty Images (credit:Getty Images)
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Locals ride a motorbike in a flooded street of Santo Domingo before the arrival of Hurricane Sandy on October 24, 2012. The category one hurricane on the five-level Saffir-Simpson scale was forecast to dump up to 12 inches of rain across Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Haiti and eastern Cuba. ERIKA SANTELICES/AFP/Getty Images (credit:Getty Images)
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The seaside road leading to the international airport is empty as Hurricane Sandy approaches Kingston, Jamaica, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. Hurricane Sandy pounded Jamaica with heavy rain as it headed for landfall near the country\'s most populous city on a track that would carry it across the Caribbean island to Cuba, and a possible threat to Florida. (AP Photo/Collin Reid) (credit:AP)
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The main terminal of the Kingston international airport sits empty as Hurricane Sandy approaches Jamaica, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. Hurricane Sandy pounded Jamaica with heavy rain as it headed for landfall near the country\'s most populous city on a track that would carry it across the Caribbean island to Cuba, and a possible threat to Florida. (AP Photo/Collin Reid) (credit:AP)
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MIAMI BEACH, FL - OCTOBER 25: (L-R) William Rath, Julie Rath, Laura Rath and Weera Rath, on vacation from the Netherlands, walk to the beach as they are buffeted by high winds of the outer bands of Hurricane Sandy on October 25, 2012 in Miami Beach, Florida. After passing over Jamaica Hurricane Sandy is expected to hit eastern Cuba and head into the Bahamas today and tomorrow. There is a tropical storm warning in place for coastal Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach Counties and the Atlantic waters off southeast Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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People remove a boat from the water ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Sandy in Manzanillo, Cuba, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. Hurricane Sandy pounded Jamaica with heavy rain as it headed for landfall near the country\'s most populous city on a track that would carry it across the Caribbean island to Cuba, and a possible threat to Florida. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes) (credit:AP)
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A man balances a child and umbrella on his bike as it rains during the approach of Hurricane Sandy in Manzanillo, Cuba, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. Hurricane Sandy pounded Jamaica with heavy rain as it headed for landfall near the country\'s most populous city on a track that would carry it across the Caribbean island to Cuba, and a possible threat to Florida. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes) (credit:AP)
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MIAMI, FL - OCTOBER 24: Stephanie Bilyeu walks along the ocean as blustery winds blow through the palm trees as the outerbands of Hurricane Sandy are felt on October 24, 2012 in Miami, Florida. After passing over Jamaica, Sandy is expected to hit eastern Cuba on Wednesday night and into the Bahamas Thursday and Friday, a tropcial storm warning was issued for east coast of Florida from Ocean Reef to Sebasian Inlet and a tropical storm watch was extended along the east coast to Flagler Beach. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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A woman wades through flood water brought by Hurricane Sandy as she evacuates her home in the Caribbean Terrace neighborhood of eastern Kingston, Jamaica, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. Hurricane Sandy pounded Jamaica with heavy rain as it headed for landfall near the country\'s most populous city on a track that would carry it across the Caribbean island to Cuba, and a possible threat to Florida. (AP Photo/Collin Reid) (credit:AP)
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Citizens of Bayamo, 740 km east of Havana, move to safer places on October 24, 2012 as the residents of eastern Cuba prepare for the arrival of Hurricane Sandy. Hurricane conditions were expected in eastern Cuba in the evening, with the storm set to pass over the Bahamas Thursday and Friday, according to the NHC, which warned that conditions were \'deteriorating\' in Jamaica. STR/AFP/Getty Images (credit:Getty Images)
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MIAMI BEACH, FL - OCTOBER 25: (L-R) William Rath, Julie Rath, Weera Rath and Laura Rath, on vacation from the Netherlands, walk on the beach as they are buffeted by high winds of the outer bands of Hurricane Sandy on October 25, 2012 in Miami Beach, Florida. After passing over Jamaica Hurricane Sandy is expected to hit eastern Cuba and head into the Bahamas today and tomorrow. There is a tropical storm warning in place for coastal Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach Counties and the Atlantic waters off southeast Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Men try to free an electrical wire wire from debris, which was turned off last night, after the passing of Hurricane Sandy in Gibara, Cuba, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. Hurricane Sandy blasted across eastern Cuba on Thursday as a potent Category 2 storm and headed for the Bahamas after causing at least two deaths in the Caribbean. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes) (credit:AP)
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Residents inspect damage after the passing of Hurricane Sandy in Gibara, Cuba, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. Hurricane Sandy blasted across eastern Cuba on Thursday as a potent Category 2 storm and headed for the Bahamas after causing at least two deaths in the Caribbean. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes) (credit:AP)
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A woman cries out in front of her flooded house caused by heavy rains from Hurricane Sandy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. Hurricane Sandy rumbled across mountainous eastern Cuba and headed toward the Bahamas on Thursday as a Category 2 storm, bringing heavy rains and blistering winds. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery) (credit:AP)
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A fallen tree and toppled light poles block a road in Kingston, Jamaica, after the passing of Hurricane Sandy, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. Sandy, which made landfall Wednesday afternoon near Kingston, crossed over Jamaica killing an elderly man when a boulder crashed into his clapboard house, police said. (AP Photo/Collin Reid) (credit:AP)
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A house is destroyed by heavy flooding from Hurricane Sandy October 25, 2012 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Hurricane Sandy barreled toward the Bahamas Thursday as a powerful category two storm, after battering Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba and claiming three lives so far. The US-based National Hurricane Center said the storm was packing winds of up to 105 miles (165 kilometers) per hour as it moved north, near the top of the category two range on the five-rung Saffir-Simpson wind scale. Forecasters predicted the storm would weaken somewhat over the next 48 hours. But Sandy will remain a hurricane as it passes over the Bahamas, according to the NHC\'s 1500 GMT advisory. THONY BELIZAIRE/AFP/Getty Images (credit:Getty Images)
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UN Peacekeepers stand near a bridge washed away by heavy rains from Hurricane Sandy October 25, 2012 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Hurricane Sandy barreled toward the Bahamas Thursday as a powerful category two storm, after battering Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba and claiming three lives so far. The US-based National Hurricane Center said the storm was packing winds of up to 105 miles (165 kilometers) per hour as it moved north, near the top of the category two range on the five-rung Saffir-Simpson wind scale. Forecasters predicted the storm would weaken somewhat over the next 48 hours. But Sandy will remain a hurricane as it passes over the Bahamas, according to the NHC\'s 1500 GMT advisory. THONY BELIZAIRE/AFP/Getty Images (credit:Getty Images)
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Cubans observe a tree knocked down by Hurricane Sandy in Bayamo city, 760 km east of Havana, Cuba on October 25, 2012. STR/AFP/Getty Images (credit:Getty Images)
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Two Cuban women remain inside their home, demolished by Hurricane Sandy, on October 25, 2012 in Santiago de Cuba. RUBIERA JUSTIZ/AFP/Getty Images (credit:Getty Images)
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Fallen palm trees lie on a road after the hurricane Sandy in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, Thursday Oct. 25, 2012. Hurricane Sandy blasted across eastern Cuba on Thursday as a potent Category 2 storm and headed for the Bahamas after causing at least two deaths in the Caribbean. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes) (credit:AP)
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Resident Antonio Garces tries to recover his belongings from his house destroyed by Hurricane Sandy in Aguacate, Cuba, Thursday Oct. 25, 2012. Hurricane Sandy blasted across eastern Cuba on Thursday as a potent Category 2 storm and headed for the Bahamas after causing at least two deaths in the Caribbean. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes) (credit:AP)
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A woman removes muddy water from her home caused by heavy rains from Hurricane Sandy, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012 in La Plaine, Haiti, as residents of the Port-au-Prince neighbor tried to recover from the aftermath of the storm, which claimed three lives. Hurricane Sandy roared across Cuba overnight, making landfall as a powerful 115-mph storm. Haiti\'s capital, Port-au-Prince is still feeling the ripple effects, with gusty rain continuing as the Sandy makes its way towards the Bahamas. (AP Photo/The Miami Herald, Carl Juste) MAGS OUT (credit:AP)
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Red flags fly from a lifeguard station as Hurricane Sandy passes offshore to the east, Friday, Oct. 26, 2012, in Miami Beach, Fla. Hurricane Sandy left at least 21 people dead as it moved through the Caribbean, following a path that could see it blend with a winter storm and reach the U.S. East Coast as a super-storm next week. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) (credit:AP)
Coney Island Beach(282 of295)
Laurie Yanowitz Kominsky:
The Sonics brave the boardwalk and the beach during Hurricane Sandy.
The Sonics brave the boardwalk and the beach during Hurricane Sandy.
East River From Long Island City(283 of295)
Francesco Pezzano:
hurricane, sandy, east river, UN
hurricane, sandy, east river, UN
Before And During The Storm(284 of295)
BxGurl0813:
This is the same view Sunday around noon and Monday around noon -- both high tide times. The bridge in the background on the top is the Throgs Neck Bridge, looking south from Edgewater Park in the Bronx.
This is the same view Sunday around noon and Monday around noon -- both high tide times. The bridge in the background on the top is the Throgs Neck Bridge, looking south from Edgewater Park in the Bronx.
Gantry State Park(285 of295)
NickGulotta:
Gantry State Park in Long Island City, Queens. Gantry is in Zone A.
Gantry State Park in Long Island City, Queens. Gantry is in Zone A.
East River Seating(286 of295)
Marlenedc:
The East River seating opposite the UN in Long Island City, NY, floods.
The East River seating opposite the UN in Long Island City, NY, floods.
Ducks Brave The Storm(287 of295)
Marlene Dodes-Callahan:
Ducks swim in the water on the east side of the East River in Long Island City, NY.
Ducks swim in the water on the east side of the East River in Long Island City, NY.
Mason Dixon VFW In Delaware(288 of295)
Lelling111:
The Mason Dixon VFW will be flooded over within the next 24 hours.
The Mason Dixon VFW will be flooded over within the next 24 hours.
Avalon Pier In North Carolina(289 of295)
Jes Gray:
Sections of the pier have washed into the ocean, and pieces litter the beach for hundreds of yards.
Sections of the pier have washed into the ocean, and pieces litter the beach for hundreds of yards.
East Village In New York(290 of295)
kyplatt:
It\'s not even that windy here yet. Photo taken on Avenue A between 10th and 11th Streets.
It\'s not even that windy here yet. Photo taken on Avenue A between 10th and 11th Streets.
Tree Down In Massapequa(291 of295)
Karolina Castellani:
A tree is knocked down by a strong gust of wind in East Massapequa, New York, by Old Sunrise Highway. (credit:Karolina Castellani)
A tree is knocked down by a strong gust of wind in East Massapequa, New York, by Old Sunrise Highway. (credit:Karolina Castellani)
Car Smashed By Tree In Flushing, New York(292 of295)
Peter Hsu:
A fallen tree crushed a nearby car in Flushing, New York.
A fallen tree crushed a nearby car in Flushing, New York.
Billy Major (293 of295)
FILE- In this combination of two file photos, the Funtime Pier in Seaside Heights, N.J. is shown before and after superstorm Sandy made landfall on the Jersey Shore. At top in this Aug. 10, 2010 file photo, the Funtime Pier rises from the sand and surf at Seaside Heights on the New Jersey coast. Below, Funtime Pier Owner Billy Major surveys the damage on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012 after superstorm Sandy tore through the region and left only four rides standing. Top (AP Photo/Mel Evans) Bottom (AP Photo/Star-Ledger, David Gard/POOL) (credit:AP)
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Matthew Mark Meyer (R) and Annie Barwick (C front) sit in a darkened Randolf Beer Restaurant which is using generator power to reopen on November 2, 2012 in New York as the city recovers from the effects of Hurricane Sandy. The restaurant got ice for its beer, food was grilled on the sidewalk and hot coffee and tea was available. AFP PHOTO/Stan HONDA (Photo credit should read STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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People in cars and on foot line up for free gas in the Jamaica neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York, Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012, in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. Trucks provided by the U.S. Department of Defense at the direction of President Barack Obama at this site and others were deployed in coordination with the New York National Guard at the direction of the governor. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle) (credit:AP)
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