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Members of the Merino family carry belongings to waiting cars as they leave their home on Arlington Terrace in the Huntington neighborhood of Alexandria, Va., on Oct. 29, 2012, during a mandatory evacuation order as high winds and heavy rain from Hurricane Sandy pound the Atlantic coast. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Rosa Merino uses her cell phone as she and her family leave their home on Arlington Terrace in the Huntington neighborhood of Alexandria, Va., on Oct. 29, 2012, during a mandatory evacuation order as high winds and heavy rain from Hurricane Sandy pound the Atlantic coast. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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A young man removes belongings from a home on Arlington Terrace in the Huntington neighborhood of Alexandria, Va., on Oct. 29, 2012, during a mandatory evacuation order as high winds and heavy rain from Hurricane Sandy pound the Atlantic coast. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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A woman leaves a house on Arlington Terrace during a mandatory evacuation order in the Huntington neighborhood of Alexandria, Va., on Oct. 29, 2012, while high winds and heavy rain from Hurricane Sandy pound the Atlantic coast. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Rick Knabb, director of the National Hurricane Center, points to the satellite image of hurricane Sandy at the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

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Pennsylvania Avenue is not its usual bumper-to-bumper busy on Monday morning as heavy rain from Hurricane Sandy arrives in Washington. With many hunkered down at home, the commute was easier for those who did venture out. (Associated Press)

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Michael Wirtz, of Wilmington, Del., braves flood waters and high winds that arrive with Hurricane Sandy along North Michigan Avenue in Atlantic City, N.J., 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 for higher ground, and threatening a dangerous mix of high winds and soaking rain. (AP Photo/The Press of Atlantic City, Michael Ein) MANDATORY CREDIT

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New Bedford, Mass., firefighters survey damage caused when high winds generated by Hurricane Sandy toppled a chimney through a skylight and into the kitchen of an apartment in New Bedford Monday, Oct. 29, 2012. The apartments were evacuated, and no one was injured. (AP Photo/The Standard-Times, Peter Pereira)

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Backpackers Dean Siornicke, left, and Leland Kinkade of Spring Hill, Fla., arrive at a trailhead after spending a snowy night Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, near v, Tenn. About 50 backpackers took shelter in the park during Sunday night's snowfall. Rangers expect more snow and high winds in the days to come as fallout from the storm pounding the East Coast.(AP Photo/Knoxville News Sentinel, J. Miles Cary)

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Snow plows move through the mountains of West Virginia Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, in Randolph County, W.Va. Sandy was set to collide with a wintry storm from the west and cold air streaming down from the Arctic. The combination superstorm could menace some 50 million people in the most heavily populated corridor in the nation, from the East Coast to the Great Lakes. (AP Photo/Robert Ray)

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A downed limb lies in a flooded street as Hurricane Sandy approaches, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, in Center Moriches, N.Y. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

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A few dozen people take refuge from Hurricane Sandy at a Red Cross shelter, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, in Deer Park, N.Y. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

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Jake Wilkerson, 20, and Kaityln Baker, 21, both of Annapolis, Md., struggle with their umbrellas as Hurricane Sandy approaches Annapolis Monday, Oct. 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)

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Water from the Hudson River surrounds a hotel in Edgewater, N.J., Monday, Oct. 29, 2012 as Hurricane Sandy lashes the East Coast. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

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Rising water from the Hudson River overtakes a bank drive through in Edgewater, N.J., Monday, Oct. 29, 2012 as Hurricane Sandy lashed the East Coast. In the background is the historic ferry boat named the Binghamton, swamped by the waves. 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. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

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A row of houses stands in floodwaters at Grassy Sound in North Wildwood, N.J., as Hurricane Sandy pounds the East Coast Monday Oct. 29, 2012. (AP Photo/The Press of Atlantic City, Dale Gerhard)

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A sign informs motorists along U.S. Route 50 that Maryland's Chesapeake Bay Bridge, which connects the state's eastern and western shores, is closed because of winds from Hurricane Sandy Monday, Oct. 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)

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People run through a flooded street as Hurricane Sandy approaches, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, in Lindenhurst, N.Y. 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. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)