Hard-Hit Communities Continue To Cope With Aftermath Of Superstorm Sandy

NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 09: Community pet rescuer Kim Ruiz stands among the cats, five of whom were rescued during Superstorm Sandy, and dogs she currently houses in her unheated apartment without electricity in the Far Rockaway neighborhood in the Ocean Bay public housing projects in the Far Rockaway neighborhood on November 9, 2012 in the Queens borough of New York City. Hundreds of other Ocean Bay residents remain without heat or electricity eleven days after Superstorm Sandy struck. 53 New York City public housing buildings remain without power and 113 public housing buildings still don’t have heat in the wake of the storm. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)