Reuters images of the year 2012 - Disaster

Car are seen on a street flooded at Hoboken in New Jersey, Oct 30, 2012. Millions of people across the eastern United States awoke on Tuesday to scenes of destruction wrought by monster storm Sandy, which knocked out power to huge swathes of the nation's most densely populated region, swamped New York's subway system and submerged streets in Manhattan's financial district. [Photo/Agencies]

A firefighting helicopter fills a bucket of water in heavy smoke as the North Merna wildfire burns in the Bridger National Forest west of the town of Pinedale in Sublette County, Wyoming Sept 16, 2012. [Photo/Agencies]