U.S. National Strike Force members meet with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority at the Governors Island Ventilation Building to prepare for dewatering operations at the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel in New York, on Nov. 3, 2012. The NSF deployed more than 20 members from the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf Strike Teams to assist with the tunnel that flooded during 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. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Jaclyn Young/Released)