A firefighter helps clear a flooded street, in Santo Domingo, on October 25, 2012. Hurricane Sandy barreled toward the Bahamas Thursday as a powerful category two storm, after battering Jamaica, Haiti... more 

A firefighter helps clear a flooded street, in Santo Domingo, on October 25, 2012. Hurricane Sandy barreled toward the Bahamas Thursday as a powerful category two storm, after battering Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba and claiming 21 lives so far less