(MCT) — SEA GATE, N.Y. — Hundreds of thousands of children finally went back to school Monday and New York slogged through a full-fledged commute — but the Northeast kept one eye on its halting recovery, the other on a you-can’t-be-serious second storm that could bring high winds and flooding to communities already staggered by Sandy.

“Insult to injury,” said Michael Szajngarten, as he sorted through his battered home in this seaside Brooklyn community, just down the road from the Coney Island boardwalk.