NEW YORK, NY – OCTOBER 30: A man clears leaves from a sewer drain in lower Manhattan, October 30, 2012 in New York. 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. (Photo by Allison Joyce/Getty Images)
