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Most of Manhattan is without power. While some people may think it's badass to hack through the storm oblivious, the situation out here is pretty intense. I wou
by brendn 14y ago
Most of Manhattan is without power. While some people may think it's badass to hack through the storm oblivious, the situation out here is pretty intense. I would encourage some leniency with the deadline, especially since as far as I know for NYC, things won't be back to normal for quite a few days.
- sharkweek 14y agoNot to make light of the situation at hand, but that would be a pretty epic story; I'd definitely read the post on "How I hacked my way into YC by stealing a jetski to get away from the floods, then hitchhiked across the US to hand delivery my application to PG's door within 15 minutes of the deadline"
- carterschonwald 14y agoFalse, just lower manahattan near the financial district. (unless i'm just a lucky manhattanite who's not read the right news sites and has lovely power) that said, subways being closed is going to be a huge hassle for the next few days.
- brendn 14y agoConEd shut of power to the Financial District at approximately 7PM, but there were a number of explosions at substations including the one at 14th Street. There are over 1 million New Yorkers without power; ConEd reports most places below Midtown are dark. They evacuated NYU Langone Hospital when its backup generator failed, so yes, consider yourself very lucky.
- frankdenbow 14y agoLots of transformers blew. My power is out and I'm at 10th street and 6th ave.
- mdda 14y agoAfter walking up Madison this morning, there's no power below 39th Street AFAICT.