Cars float up from a car garage in a mixture of storm water and gasoline in lower Manhattan as workers begin the process of pumping out the mess. (Photo by Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times/MCT)

A large crowd is drawn to the Lake Michigan shoreline in Kenosha, Wis. to watch big waves caused by winds from superstorm Sandy. (Photo by Bill Siel/The Kenosha News)

Brian Hajeski, 41, of Brick, N.J., reacts after looking at debris of a home that washed up on to the Mantoloking Bridge Mantoloking, N.J. (Photo by Julio Cortez/Associated Press)

Foundations and pilings are all that remain of brick buildings and a boardwalk in Atlantic City, N.J. (Photo by Seth Wenig/Associated Press)

Homes in Seaside, N.J. are flooded in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy. (Photo by Tim Larsen/New Jersey Governor's Office)

North Carolina 12 is buckled from pounding surf leading into Mirlo Beach in Rodanthe, N.C. (Photo by Steve Earley/The Virginian-Pilot)

Waves pound a lighthouse on the shores of Lake Erie near Cleveland as high winds spinning off the edge of superstorm Sandy took a vicious swipe at northeast Ohio early Tuesday. (Photo by Tony Dejak/Associated Press)

Breezy Point, a tiny beachfront neighborhood told to evacuate before Sandy hit New York, burned down as it was inundated by floodwaters, transforming a quaint corner of the Rockaways into a smoke-filled debris field. (Photo by Mike Groll/Associated Press)

People walk on North Carolina 12 away from the buckling of the highway, pounded by surf, leading into Mirlo Beach in Rodanthe, N.C. (Photo by Steve Earley/The Virginian-Pilot)

A portion of Harvey Cedars on Long Beach Island, N.J. is underwater Tuesday. (Photo by Clem Murray/The Philadelphia Inquirer, Clem Murray)

Floodwaters are pumped out from train tracks at the South Ferry subway station in Manhattan. (Photo by Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times)

People stand next to a house that collapsed during superstorm Sandy in East Haven, Conn. (Photo by Jessica Hill/Associated Press)

Pedestrians walk past the boardwalk and cars displaced by superstorm Sandy near Rockaway Beach in Queens, N.Y. (Photo by Frank Franklin II/Associated Press)

A 168-foot water tanker, the John B. Caddell, sits on the shore Tuesday morning where it ran aground on Front Street in the Stapleton neighborhood of New York's Staten Island. (Photo by Sean Sweeney/Associated Press)

Two cars are abandoned in the sand from the aftermath of hurricane Sandy in Long Beach, New York. (Photo by Alejandra Villa/Newsday/MCT)

Robert Connolly, left, embraces his wife Laura as they survey the remains of the home owned by her parents in Breezy Point. (Photo by Mark Lennihan/Associated Press)

Victor Concepcion stands on a trash can above floodwaters in Brooklyn. (Photo by Kirsten Luce/The New York Times)

Seawater floods the entrance to the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel in New York. (Photo by John Minchillo/Associated Press)

People wade and paddle down a flooded street as Hurricane Sandy approaches in Lindenhurst, N.Y. (Photo by Jason DeCrow/Asociated Press)

Ocean waves kick up near homes along Peggoty Beach in Scituate, Massachusetts on Monday. (Photo by Elise Amendola/Associated Press)

Rising water, caused by Hurricane Sandy, rushes into a subterranian parking garage on October 29, 2012, in the Financial District of New York, United States. Hurricane Sandy, 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 Andrew Burton/AFP Photo)

An NOAA satellite image taken Monday shows Hurricane Sandy off the mid-Atlantic coastline moving toward the north with maximum sustained winds of 90 mph. (Photo by NOAA)

The Battery Park Underpass is submerged by floodwaters in New York City. (Photo by Michael Appleton/The New York Times)

A log rests on a vehicle damaged by superstorm Sandy at Breezy Point. (Photo by Frank Franklin II/Associated Press)

A street and business are flooded in Hoboken, NJ. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Associated Press)

Residents are rescued from floodwaters after a levee broke in a neighboring town, in Little Ferry, N.J. (Photo by Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times)

As Hurricane Sandy passed by south Florida, storm surge wrecked sea walls along S. Ocean Blvd. in Manalapan. (Photo by Gary Coronado/The Palm Beach Post)

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)

A visitor in a bathrobe does a cartwheel in the rain while visiting Times Square in New York October 29, 2012. As Hurricane Sandy aimed straight for them, promising to hammer the place they live with lashing winds and extensive flooding, New Yorkers seemed to be all about nonchalance on Monday morning – an attitude that didn't last into the afternoon. (Photo by Adrees Latif/Reuters)

U.S. Route 30, the White Horse Pike, one of three major approaches to Atlantic City, New Jersey, is covered with water from Absecon Bay in this view looking west, during the approach of Hurricane Sandy, October 29, 2012. Hurricane Sandy began battering the U.S. East Coast on Monday with fierce winds and driving rain, as the monster storm shut down transportation, shuttered businesses and sent thousands scrambling for higher ground hours before the worst was due to strike. (Photo by Tom Mihalek/Reuters)

Floodwaters surround homes near the Mantoloking Bridge in Mantoloking, N.J. (Photo by Julio Cortez/Associated Press)

Jenna Webb (L), 18, and Zoe Jurusik, 20, paddle-board down a flooded city street in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in Bethany Beach, Delaware, October 30, 2012. Millions of people were left reeling in the aftermath of monster storm Sandy on Tuesday as New York City and a wide swathe of the eastern United States struggled with epic flooding and massive power outages. (Photo by Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)

A parking lot full of yellow cabs in Hoboken, New Jersey. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Associated Press)

A car is crushed beneath a fallen tree on East Broadway in Manhattan's Lower East Side neighborhood. (Photo by John Minchillo/Associated Press)

A man reacts to waves crashing over a seawall in Narragansett, Rhode Island. (Photo by Steven Senne/Associated Press)

Glenn Heartley watches floodwaters from superstorm Sandy pour out of his car after it was pulled out of a creek in Chincoteague, Va., Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. Heartley and his wife were swept off the road into a shallow creek during Monday's storm. (Photo by Steve Helber/AP Photo)

Rescue workers help stranded people out of their flooded homes in Seaside Heights, N.J. (Photo by Julio Cortez/Associated Press)

With nightfall approaching, Rodrigo Vargas, 25, of Seaside Heights, N.J., ponders treading through floodwaters to check on his second floor apartment. (Photo by Julio Cortez/Associated Press)

Firefighters work at the scene of a house fire in Lindenhurst, New York. According to firefighters at the scene, four homes were destroyed by fire overnight in Lindenhurst, and six in Massapequa. (Photo by Jason DeCrow/AP Photo)

A man wades through flood waters on Hylan Boulevard in Staten Island. (Photo by Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg)

Sea water floods the Ground Zero construction site, Monday, October 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. (Photo by John Minchillo/AP Photo)

Sveinn Storm pumps water out of his flooded Storm Bros. Ice Cream Factory store in downtown Annapolis, Maryland. (Photo by Blake Sell/Associated Press)

A man surveys the damage at the approach to old Indian River Inlet bridge in Bethany Beach, Delaware. (Photo by William Bretzger/The Wilmington News-Journal)

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. (Photo by Robert F. Bukaty/AP Photo)

Streets along Manhattan's Westside Highway near the USS Intrepid, background center, are flooded as Sandy moves through the area. (Photo by Dylan Patrick/Associated Press)

A boat rests on the tracks at Metro-North's Ossining Station on the Hudson Line in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, in New York, on October 30, 2012. (Photo by Reuters/MTA)

Kim Johnson looks over the destruction near her seaside apartment in Atlantic City, New Jersey. (Photo by Seth Wenig/Associated Press)

The Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Memorial sits in flood waters in downtown Annapolis, Maryland. (Photo by Susan Walsh/Associated Press)