Introduction

Thousands of subway passengers in new york city had to be evacuated from tunnels and commuter trains also came to a halt. Cash dispensing tele machines were also knocked out so people who did not have cash on hand could not buy flashlights, batteries or other supplies. Emergency rooms were flooded with patients with heat and hot ailments. At harlem hospital, spokewomen said that a number of pedestrians had been hit by cars because traffic lights were out. There was no air conditioning, no television, nor computers. All the shows were cancelled, so was the metz game against the san francisco giants at sheer stadium. And there was a skyline that had never looked quite the way it did last night