Nor’easter hits areas struck by super storm Sandy

In the neighborhood of New Dorp in Staten Island, N.Y., 3 to 4 inches of snow blanketed the area, making the cleanup effort from super storm Sandy that much more difficult. Most residents have left because of lack of electricity and services. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

Nov. 7, 2012 3:25 PM PT

Wet snow and heavy winds thrashed New York City and much of the Northeast, forcing evacuations in areas flooded by Sandy last week and knocking out power to some areas where it had just been restored. Read more

Ahad Shahid, 8, helps his family shovel snow from their walkway, near furnishings from the basement that are stacked up on the front lawn in the New Dorp community of Staten Island. Their basement was flooded during super storm Sandy and they are still without services, including heat. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

Danny Frost is back in the neighborhood where he grew up, New Dorp, to help in the cleanup effort, which now includes shoveling snow. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

Billy Burke, right, had his basement flooded on Staten Island and his home is still without electricity. He and Travis Harrell, left, are working to move debris from the neighborhood of New Dorp in Staten Island. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

A note written on the siding of a home in the Staten Island neighborhood of New Dorp. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

Damon Rasinya carts debris from his family home past the fire-scorched landscape of Breezy Point after a nor’easter blew through. (Mark Lennihan / Associated Press)

A religious statue stands in the fire-scorched landscape of Breezy Point after a nor’easter in New York. (Mark Lennihan / Associated Press)

The remains of a mini-golf course destroyed by Superstorm Sandy is seen at the boardwalk after a nor’easter left a blanket of snow. (Wayne Perry / Associated Press)

People stand on a dune covered in snow in Point Pleasant following a nor’easter on the New Jersey shore. The dune was created in preparation for the nor’easter to protect the already damaged town. (Julio Cortez / Associated Press)

Bob Quakenbush and his daughter Dana Letual clear a fallen tree from his driveway so he can go to work in Millstone Township, N.J. (Mel Evans / Associated Press)

Ted Lawrie shovels snow out of his driveway after several inches fell overnight in Walpole, Mass. (Matt Campbell / EPA)

Students walk in snow flurries past a snowman on campus of Central Connecticut State University. (Jessica Hill / Associated Press)

A couple stands in a bus shelter during a snowfall in Dover Township, N.J., as the region pounded by Superstorm Sandy last week is hit by a Nor’Easter. (Mel Evans / Associated Press)

Snow masks much of the damage done to the New Dorp section of Staten Island, N.Y. (Seth Wenig / Associated Press)

An New York Police Department van drives along a street soaked with rain and covered with debris in a Rockaway neighborhood of the borough of Queens, New York. (Craig Ruttle / Associated Press)

In Brooklyn’s Redhook neighborhood, many residents are still without power and heat as a snowstorm is hitting the area. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

A nor’easter arrives in Redhook. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

The Redhook neighborhood. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

Fatima Quentiro walks with her granddaughter Galalea Castro through the snow to a bus stop in the Rockaway neighborhood of New York City’s Queens borough. They are wearing jackets donated by the NYC Marathon. (Mario Tama / Getty Images)

A man helps another climb down a destroyed section of boardwalk after they checked a storm’s approach as the nor’easter arrives in Rockaway. (Mario Tama / Getty Images)

Surfer “Mandog” watches a friend hit the waves as he stands on a pile of sand collected from the streets and placed back on the beach amid the destroyed boardwalk in Rockaway. (Mario Tama / Getty Images)

Pedestrians cross Lexington Avenue during a nor’easter in New York. The storm will bring heavy winds, rain and sleet, and could reflood Battery Park and downtown Manhattan, areas that were affected by Superstorm Sandy. (Michael Heiman / Getty Images)

Jason Auer works in the snow cleaning a relatives house in the New Dorp section of Staten Island, New York, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012. (Seth Wenig / Associated Press)

A woman clears snow from her car in Dover, N.J., as the region pounded by Superstorm Sandy last week is hit by a nor’easter. (Mel Evans / Associated Press)

Waves crash into a seawall and buildings in Hull, Mass. (Steven Senne / Associated Press)

Helena Hamilec of the Rockaway Beach neighborhood in New York’s Queens borough walks past debris left by Superstorm Sandy. (Craig Ruttle / Associated Press)