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New york city alone is losing something like $200 million a day every day that the power stays out and the transportation system doesn't work. new york city has the 17th largest economy in the world. if new york city were a country it would be the 17th largest national economy in the world. you unplug that and everybody hurts. whether you live in manhattan or new jersey or live in idaho. if you do not feel it yet where you live, wait a minute because it's coming. we've known this disaster was coming. for the one in five americans who live somewhere on an american coast near the sea, weird weat...

Disaster. new york city then built the modern subway so the trains could keep running in the elements and built a new electrical system with the wires not over ground but underground. new york city had been fighting for years about whether to put the wires underground. but after the blizzard, the abstract political debate stopped and the innovation began. they had a problem that everybody could see. overhead requires, vulnerable to storms, and they fixed that problem. they put the wires under ground. the scale of the still unfolding disaster of this storm, of sandy, is stunningly vast in terms...