The sun rises over New York City Nov. 2, 2012.
Numerous U.S. government agencies, including the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' 249th Engineer Battalion, responded to meet the needs of the area after Hurricane Sandy. 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 EJ Hersom/Released). Original public domain image from Flickr