Robert Connolly, left, embraces his wife Laura as they survey the remains of the home owned by her parents that burned to the ground in the Breezy Point section of New York, Oct. 30, 2012.
Superstorm Sandy displaced 776,000 people from their homes after it slammed into the New Jersey coast on Oct. 29. The storm affected 24 states on the eastern seaboard, killed at least 285 people and racked up more than $70 billion in damages.