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In this July 7, 2010, photo, the tall ship HMS Bounty sails on Lake Erie off Cleveland. The U.S. Coast Guard has rescued 14 members of the crew forced to abandon the ship, which was caught in Hurricane Sandy off North Carolina. The Coast Guard is searching for two other crew members. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan, File)
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Richard Thomas walks through the floodwaters in front of his home after assisting neighbors as Hurricane Sandy bears down on the East Coast, on Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, in Fenwick Island, Del. Forecasters warned that the New York City region could face the worst of Sandy as it bore down on the Eastern Seaboard'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 high. It could endanger up to 50 million people for days. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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** FILE ** The tall ship HMS Bounty sails on Lake Erie off Cleveland in July 2010. The U.S. Coast Guard has rescued 14 members of the crew forced to abandon after being caught in Hurricane Sandy off North Carolina on Monday, Oct. 29, 2012. The Coast Guard is searching for two other crew members. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)
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This NOAA satellite image shows Hurricane Sandy off the Mid Atlantic coastline moving toward the north with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph. Heavy rain spreads across North Carolina and Virginia coastlines into the Delmarva Peninsula. Farther east, rain showers are along a stationary front over the eastern Ohio Valley (AP Photo/Weather Underground)
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A woman crosses King Street under the shelter of an umbrella in a light rain during high tide, as a little flooding occurs along the waterfront in Old Town Alexandria, Va., Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012 while Hurricane Sandy makes it's way north along the Atlantic coast. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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A message is written on the doors of The Lucky Knot on King Street during high tide, as a little flooding occurs along the waterfront in Old Town Alexandria, Va., Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012 while Hurricane Sandy makes it's way north along the Atlantic coast. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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President Obama, after a briefing on Hurricane Sandy with Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator Craig Fugate (right), said, “My message to the governors, as well as to the mayors, is: ‘Anything they need, we will be there.’ (Associated Press)
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Fairfield University students leave the campus in Fairfield, Conn. Sunday Oct. 28, 2012. 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/The Connecticut Post, Cathy Zuraw)
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Senior hurricane specialist Stacy Stewart plots NOAA and Air Force aircraft fixes at the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. Hurricane Sandy is heading north from the Caribbean, where it left nearly five dozen dead, to meet a winter storm and a cold front, plus high tides from a full moon, and experts said the rare hybrid storm that results will cause havoc over 800 miles from the East Coast to the Great Lakes. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
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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)
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Two pedestrians walk along the Atlantic City Boardwalk in Atlantic City N.J., as the area prepares for Hurricane Sandy. 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/ Joseph Kaczmarek)
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A technician with the Battery Conservancy removes below-ground fountain operation equipment near the water's edge at Battery Park in New York. Areas in the Northeast are preparing for the arrival of Hurricane Sandy and a possible flooding storm surge. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
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A sign informs subway riders of changes in service in the hours before the arrival of Hurricane Sandy in New York Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. Areas in the Northeast Region prepared Sunday for the arrival of the hurricane and a possible flooding storm surge. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
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People line up looking for taxis, as they leave Battery Park City in lower Manhattan where a mandatory evacuation order is in place as Hurricane Sandy approaches the Northeast, in New York. (AP Photo/Santiago Lyon)
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Passengers wait for their flight at at LaGuardia airport, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012 in New York. Tens of thousands of residents were ordered to evacuate coastal areas Sunday as big cities and small towns across the Northeast buttoned up against the onslaught of a superstorm (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
