A U.S. soldier with the 1st Battalion, 69th Infantry Regiment, New York Army National Guard waits as a contractor fills a container with fuel for an emergency generator at Bellvue Hospital Center in New York Oct. 30, 2012. Guardsmen with the unit deployed to Lower Manhattan after Hurricane Sandy struck the region the day before. 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.