A truck drives through water pushed over a road by Hurricane Sandy in Southampton, New York, on October 29, 2012. Hurricane Sandy, the monster storm bearing down on the East Coast, strengthened on Monday after hundreds of thousands moved to higher ground, public transport shut down and the stock market suffered its first weather-related closure in 27 years. #

This nighttime satellite image of Hurricane Sandy was acquired by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite around 2:42 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, on October 28, 2012. #

A driver maneuvers his car along a wet road as a wave crashes against the Malecon in Havana, Cuba, on October 25, 2012. Hurricane Sandy blasted across eastern Cuba on Thursday as a potent Category 2 storm and headed for the Bahamas. #

People walk on a street littered with debris after Hurricane Sandy hit Santiago de Cuba, on October 26, 2012. The Cuban government said on Thursday night that 11 people died when the storm barreled across the island, most killed by falling trees or in building collapses in Santiago de Cuba province and neighboring Guantanamo province. #

In New York City, a lone pedestrian walks through an empty Times Square, early on October 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. #

New York City police officers speak to a man 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 in the Rockaway Beach neighborhood of Queens, on October 28, 2012. #

The New York City Subway system suspended service at 7 p.m. on October 28, 2012, in advance of Hurricane Sandy. This photo shows an empty section of Times Square, normally the busiest station in the system. #

The empty floor of the New York Stock Exchange, on October 29, 2012. All major U.S. stock and options exchanges were closed Monday with Hurricane Sandy nearing landfall on the East Coast. #

Bill Ryan, of Inwood, New York, 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 in Uniondale, New York, on October, 28, 2012. Pet owners could leave their pets at the shelter and afterwards seek shelter for themselves. before the arrival of Hurricane Sandy. #

A news crew wades through sea foam blown onto Jeanette's Pier in Nags Head, North Carolina, on October 28, 2012 as wind and rain from Hurricane Sandy moved into the area. #

The U.S. Capitol and Pennsylvania Avenue, on Monday morning, October 29, 2012, as heavy rain from Hurricane Sandy arrives in Washington. Sandy strengthened before dawn and is on a predicted path toward Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York -- putting it on a collision course with two other weather systems that would create a superstorm. #

People pose outside the sandbagged entrance of the closed Apple Store on Fifth Avenue as Hurricane Sandy moves closer to the area on October 29, 2012 in New York City. #

U.S. Route 30, the White Horse Pike, one of three major approaches to Atlantic City, New Jersey, covered with water from Absecon Bay in this view looking west, during the approach of Hurricane Sandy, on October 29, 2012. #

A historic ferry boat named the Binghamton, swamped by the waves on the Hudson River in Edgewater, New Jersey, on October 29, 2012 as Hurricane Sandy lashed the East Coast. #

This handout photo taken in the morning before the cemetery was closed for the day and provided by the U.S. Army, shows Spc. Brett Hyde, Tomb Sentinel, 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard), keeping guard over the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier as Hurricane Sandy approaches, at Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, on October 29, 2012. Just like the Sentinel's Creed says "Through the years of diligence and praise and the discomfort of the elements, I will walk my tour in humble reverence to the best of my ability." #

Snow-covered roads in the mountains of West Virginia, on October 29, 2012, in Randolph County, West Virginia. Sandy was set to collide with a wintry storm from the west and cold air streaming down from the Arctic. #

Firefighters respond at the scene where the facade of a four-story building on 14th Street and 8th Avenue collapsed onto the sidewalk in New York, on October 29, 2012. #

Caleb Lavoie, 17, of Dayton, Maine, front, and Curtis Huard, 16, of Arundel, Maine, leap out of the way as a large wave crashes over a seawall on the Atlantic Ocean during the early stages of Hurricane Sandy in Kennebunk, Maine, on October 29, 2012. #