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A damaged car sat in the remains of a house in the Rockaways section of New York.

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National Guard, Maryland State Police, and Crisfield police worked together to assist a resident in Crisfield, Md.

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Johnny Adinolfi was comforted by neighbor John Vento, right, as he stood in the living room of his damaged home in Massapequa, N.Y.

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Food was served at the Mee Sun Cafe in Chinatown as power to most of lower Manhattan was lost.

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Virgen Perez, left, and her husband, Nelson Rodriguez, looked around their flooded home in Atlantic City, N.J.

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Sand and debris covered parking meters on the seawall along Beach Avenue in Cape May, N.J.

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A man walked past cottages damaged by Sandy on Roy Carpenter's Beach in South Kingstown, R.I.

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Needham public works crews removed a large tree from power lines and traffic lights.

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Waves pounded a lighthouse on the shores of Lake Erie near Cleveland.

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Car stood in a flooded street in Hoboken, N.J.

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An ambulance was stuck in more than a foot of snow off of Highway 33 near Belington, W.Va.

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People rescued from floodwaters rode on a large truck in Little Ferry, N.J.

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Zoe Jurusik, 20, paddle-boarded down a flooded street in Bethany Beach, Del.

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Residents looked over the remains of burned homes in the Rockaways section of New York.

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Storm surges from Sandy caused a 170-foot long tanker to run aground in Staten Island, N.Y.

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A log rested on a vehicle at Breezy Point in the New York City borough of Queens.

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Cars were half-submerged in a flooded parking lot in New York City.

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Sand covered a street in Margate City, N.J.

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Brian Hajeski of Brick, N.J., looked at debris of a home that washed up on to the Mantoloking Bridge in Mantoloking, N.J.

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Homes were destroyed in the Breezy Point neighborhood of Queens in New York.

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A resident rode in a National Guard truck as he and others are evacuated from their flooded neighborhood in Crisfield, Md.

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Emergency personnel rescued a resident from flood waters in Little Ferry, N.J.

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A lone home stood on the beach in an area that residents say was filled with homes before the hurricane in Mantoloking, N.J.

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Currie Wagner walked away from the debris of his grandmother Betty Wagner's house on the Mantoloking Bridge in Mantoloking, N.J.

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Deidre Duffy looked through the wreckage of her home devastated by fire and the effects of Hurricane Sandy at the Breezy Point section of Queens.

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A rescuer carried an elderly resident in Little Ferry, N.J.

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Jason Locke swept water and mud from his parents' home in Westport.

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Floodwaters surrounded homes near the Mantoloking Bridge in Mantoloking, N.J.

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President Obama paused while he spoke at the National Red Cross Headquarters in Washington about damage done by Hurricane Sandy.

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A rescue worker carried a young girl to safety in Little Ferry, N.J.

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Emergency personnel rescued residents in Little Ferry, N.J.

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The top of a mailbox rose above the surface of the floodwaters as Sierra Makel, 7, took photos from the front porch of a home in York County, Pa.

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Tony Talamini delivered mail to a house on West Union Boulevard in Bethlehem, Pa.

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Pleasure boats piled up 30 yards or more from the water’s edge in the Cliffwood Beach section of Aberdeen, N.J.

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Onlookers took photographs of two cars that collided during flooding outside the Consolidated Edison power sub-station on 14th Street in New York.

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A boat washed up in the storm surge sat between houses in the Breezy Point neighborhood of Queens.

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Homeowner Richard Ward assessed the damage to a car parked in front of his house after a tree fell over a power line in Toronto.

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Sand and water filled the street in Ocean City, N.J.

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People inspected a flooded street in Ocean City, N.J.

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North Carolina Route 12 was buckled from pounding surf leading into Mirlo Beach in Rodanthe, N.C.

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Foundations and pilings are all that remain of brick buildings and a boardwalk in Atlantic City, N.J.

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A woman removed a bicycle from a flooded basement on 14th street in New York.