Customers looking to purchase gas waited in their cars and stood in long lines at the Fuel Stop gas station located at 11th Street and John F. Kennedy Blvd in Union City NJ on Thursday Nov. 1, 2012. There are heavy gas shortages due the the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy which made landfall in New Jersey on Monday Oct. 29, 2012. (Damon Dahlen, AOL)
Water can still be seen on the floor and on cables at the first floor basement level cable vault where workers begin the arduous task of cleaning and repairing the Verizon Headquarters building as well as telecommunications infrastructure located at West and Barclay Streets in Lower Manhattan on Saturday Nov. 3, 2012. The building took on heavy flooding during the storm surge brought ashore by Hurricane Sandy. (Damon Dahlen, AOL)