Heidi Klum is renowned for her annual fancy dress Halloween parties. She’s so obsessed with the public holiday that she apparently starts preparing her costume weeks in advance. Not even a hurricane could come between Heidi and her . . . oh, wait a second.

The supermodel has just tweeted; ‘Hope you & your loved ones are safe after the storm. Canceling my Halloween party...postponing to a haunted Christmas’ twitpic. It’s good to hear that her elaborate all-gold Cleopatra costume won’t go to waste in the end.

Hurricane Sandy, or ‘The Frankenstorm’ depending on which paper you read - was so ferocious that large proportions of New York are still without power now, as ELLE’s contributing editor Emily Cronin writes, and underground areas are submerged, cutting out many transport links.

And check out more of Heidi’s dressing-up triumphs here