Hurricane Sandy

( REUTERS/Tim Shaffer / October 29, 2012 )

A postal worker walks past a sandbagged restaurant as he delivers mail in wind and rain from Hurricane Sandy on Main street in the Manayunk section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 29, 2012. Hurricane Sandy, the monster storm bearing down on the U.S. East Coast, strengthened on Monday after hundreds of thousands moved to higher ground, public transport shut down and the U.S. stock market suffered its first weather-related closure in 27 years.