As a postscript to the previous post, as you’d expect Manhattanites are flocking to above 39st street for food and power. At one bank (to remain nameless) ATM foyer a resourcful community had gathered to power their electronic devices. One older lady recounted that as a one-street away resident to the 14 th Street Edison power station explosion she thereafter repeated tried phoning 311 (the emergency line for non-life threatening calls) with no success.  But as one CNN reporter stated, ‘New Yorkers expect everything yesterday’. The lady had 6 cats and leg and knee problems that prevented her from evacuating with her pets. Many residents, though, at least have functioning gas with which to cook. Mention, of course, must be made of New Jersey shore residents who took the brunt of the hurricane. Extraordinary footage of boardwalks uprooted like trees and hurled into mainstreets 100s of meters away.