U.S. Marines with the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit and New York city workers clear streets in the wake of Hurricane Sandy in Staten Island, N.Y., Nov. 5, 2012.
Hurricane Sandy formed in the western Caribbean Sea and affected Jamaica, Cuba, Haiti and the Bahamas before making landfall in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States. (DoD photo by Cpl. Michael S. Lockett, U.S. Marine Corps/Released). Original public domain image from Flickr