Items lay among the burned and flooded homes in Breezy Point, N.Y., on Thursday, Nov. 1.

Jeff Willard lights a candle in his living room as his girlfriend, Diana Conte, back left, and her son, Ricky, wait for electricity to return in Ventnor City, N.J., Oct. 30, 2012. Sandy, the storm that made landfall Monday, cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses.

A man shops for groceries by flashlight at an East Village grocery store in New York, Oct. 30.

Food is served at the Mee Sun Cafe in Chinatown as power to most of lower Manhattan was down Oct. 30. Superstorm Sandy was one of the largest in history to hit the U.S. East Coast and has caused power outages for millions of people in the Eastern U.S. and crippled transportation in New York City.

Stephanie Sikaris, of Union, N.J., with red bandana, waits in line on Oct. 30 at an Exxon station on Route 22 to fill up her gas containers to feed the generator she bought on Monday from Home Depot. "This looks like it may take a while [to restore power] but hey, it could be worse, right?" she said while standing in line.

Customers and staff ride out Superstorm Sandy together by candle light at the Greenwich Village restaurant French Roast in New York, Oct. 30. New York Power Company Consolidated Edison Inc. said that it had shut off power to part of Lower Manhattan to protect electrical equipment and to allow for quicker restoration after Hurricane Sandy passes.

People in New York's Tribeca neighborhood wait for a chance to charge their mobile phones on an available generator setup on a sidewalk, Oct. 30. Sandy, the storm that made landfall Monday, caused cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses.

Flooding in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn after Hurricane Sandy caused extensive damage in the area on October 30, in New York. The storm has claimed at least 27 lives in the United States, and has caused massive flooding across much of the Atlantic seaboard.

Belt Parkway is one of many roads still closed due to the effects of Hurricane Sandy on Oct. 30, in New York.

Flooding in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn after Hurricane Sandy caused extensive damage in the area on Oct. 30.

Board walk on the Coney Island section of Brooklyn after Hurricane Sandy.

Flooded street in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn after Hurricane Sandy caused extensive damage in the area on Oct. 30 in the Brooklyn borough of New York.

A flooded board walk in the Williamsburg Brooklyn after Hurricane Sandy caused extensive damage in the area on Oct. 29, in New York. US Pres. Barack Obama has declared the situation a 'major disaster' for large areas of the US East Coast including New York City, with wide spread power outages and significant flooding in parts of the city.