Carmen Mercado walks with her belongings to shelter during a Nor’easter, also known as a northeaster storm, in the Rockaways section of the Queens borough of New York November 7, 2012. New York and New Jersey ordered the evacuation of nursing homes and low-lying coastal areas already devastated by deadly Superstorm Sandy as a smaller but still powerful Nor’easter approached from the Atlantic Ocean. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton (UNITED STATES – Tags: ENVIRONMENT DISASTER)