The New York skyline remains dark Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, as seen from the Williamsburg neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York. In an attempt to lessen damage from saltwater to the subway system and the electrical network beneath the city's financial district, New York City's main utility cut power to about 6,500 customers in lower Manhattan. But a far wider swath of the city was hit with blackouts caused by flooding and transformer explosions.

This photo provided by 6abc Action News shows the Inlet section of Atlantic City, N.J., as Hurricane Sandy makes it approach, Monday. Sandy made landfall at 8 p.m. near Atlantic City, which was already mostly under water and saw a piece of its world-famous Boardwalk washed away earlier in the day.

In this photo provided by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey a surveillance camera captures the PATH station in Hoboken, N.J., as it is flooded shortly before 9:30 p.m. EDT on Monday. 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.

A vehicle is submerged on 14th Street near the Consolidated Edison power plant, Monday in New York. Sandy knocked out power to at least 3.1 million people, and New York's main utility said large sections of Manhattan had been plunged into darkness by the storm, with 250,000 customers without power as water pressed into the island from three sides, flooding rail yards, subway tracks, tunnels and roads.

Repair crews works to repair a sign in inclement weather after strong storm winds caused a piece of a sign to fall, killing a woman, in Toronto on Monday. Police said a woman had been killed by a falling sign while walking through a parking lot.

Heavy surf crashes over a seawall on the Atlantic Ocean during the early stages of Hurricane Sandy on Monday in Kennebunk, Maine.

Sea water floods the Ground Zero construction site Monday in New York. 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.

Firefighters respond at the scene where the facade of a four-story building on 14th Street and 8th Avenue collapsed onto the sidewalk Monday in New York.

A construction crane atop a luxury high-rise dangles precariously over the streets after collapsing in high winds from Hurricane Sandy on Monday in New York.

A historic ferry boat named the Binghamton is swamped by the waves on the Hudson River in Edgewater, N.J., on Monday as Hurricane Sandy lashed the East Coast.

People wade and paddle down a flooded street as Hurricane Sandy approaches Monday in Lindenhurst, N.Y.

People brace against a gust from Hurricane Sandy in Brooklyn's Dumbo neighborhood Monday in New York.

John Constantine makes his way out of his house after winds from Hurricane Sandy toppled a tree fell onto it in Andover, Mass., on Monday.

Rising water from the Hudson River overtakes a bank drive-through in Edgewater, N.J., on Monday as Hurricane Sandy lashed the East Coast.

A National Guard truck checks the area for stranded people as Hurricane Sandy bears down on the East Coast on Monday in Ocean City, Md.

Two men wade in the rough Atlantic Ocean on Mondayin Cape May, N.J., as Hurricane Sandy continues toward landfall.

A police officer watches from his patrol car as the rough Atlantic Ocean threatens streets Monday in Cape May, N.J., as Hurricane Sandy continues toward landfall.

A person takes a photograph of the rough Atlantic Ocean from a pavalion in Cape May, N.J., on Monday.

The dinning area of a small restaurant, The Cove, is threatened by the rough Atlantic Ocean on Monday in Cape May, N.J.

Viewers react as waves crash against a seawall near homes in Scituate, Mass., on Monday.

Javier Gutierrez, front, stands with his daughter, Ashley Gutierrez, as they check out what Hurricane Sandy is doing to the Hudson River on Monday in Weehawken, N.J.

Two men wade in the rough Atlantic Ocean on Mondayin Cape May, N.J., as Hurricane Sandy continues toward landfall.

Kendall Osborne paddles down Catalpa Street in the Edgewater neighborhood of Norfolk, Va., before high tide Monday morning.

A man walks down a flooded street as Hurricane Sandy approaches on Monday in Mastic Beach, N.Y.

Youngsters run as waves crash against a seawall in Scituate, Mass.,on Monday.

Adam Howard, right, works to clean the inside of Bubba's restaurant on the water in Virginia Beach, Va., on Monday. Rain and wind from Hurricane Sandy flooded the business at high tide.

Pedestrians huddle under their umbrellas in Times Square on Monday in New York.

A man reacts to waves crashing over a seawall in Narragansett, R.I., on Monday.