NEW YORK, NY – OCTOBER 30: Manhattan is viewed from Brooklyn after much of the city lost electricity due to the affects of Hurricane Sandy on October 30, 2012 in New York, United States. The storm has claimed at least 16 lives in the United States, and has caused massive flooding across much of the Atlantic seaboard. US President 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. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)