Rubble from Superstorm Sandy remains by homes at the edge of the Atlantic Ocean on Oct. 31, 2012 in Long Branch, New Jersey. At least 50 people were reportedly killed in the U.S. by Sandy, with New Jersey suffering massive damage and power outages.

Melanie Martinez pauses while salvaging items in her flooded home in Plaquemines Parish on Sept. 3, 2012 in Braithwaite, Louisiana. Martinez, along with her husband and mother, was forced to ride out Hurricane Isaac in her home. The house quickly flooded and the family was rescued by a neighbor who was able to break into their attic to save them. This is the fifth home Martinez has had destroyed due to hurricanes in Louisiana.

A living room filled with sand washed in by Superstorm Sandy on Nov. 14, 2012 in Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey.

Mac Baker sits in her unheated apartment in the Ocean Bay public housing projects on Nov. 9, 2012 in Queens, New York City. Hundreds of Ocean Bay residents were without heat after Superstorm Sandy struck.

Waves break at a destroyed roller coaster from the Funtown Pier on Nov. 16, 2012 in Seaside Heights, New Jersey. Two amusement piers and a number of roller coasters in the seaside town were destroyed by Superstorm Sandy.

Snow blows past debris and nonfunctioning streetlights during a Nor'Easter snowstorm on Nov. 7, 2012 in the Rockaway neighborhood of Queens, New York City. The Rockaway Peninsula was especially hard hit by Superstorm Sandy.

Fatima Quentiro walks with her granddaughter Galalea Castro to a bus stop after Castro's home was damaged by flooding and as a Nor'Easter approaches in the Rockaway neighborhood on Nov. 7, 2012 in Queens, New York City.

A darkened Flatiron Building stands in a section of Manhattan still in a blackout following Hurricane Sandy on Oct. 30, 2012 in New York City.

A coffin is partially dislodged from its crypt at a damaged cemetery in Plaquemines Parish on Sept. 4, 2012 in Braithwaite, Louisiana. Louisiana officials estimate that at least 13,000 homes were damaged by Hurricane Isaac.

Melanie Martinez holds the family cat, which they have renamed Isaac, after salvaging items from their flooded home.

An aerial view of New Yorkers taking in the sun on a beach at Coney Island on Aug. 4, 2012 in Brooklyn, New York City.