When Sandy leaves her house, she wears an astronaut's suit so she can breathe underwater.
VOA: special.2009.08.21
The two principal reasons were that generators used for backup power cannot run whenunderwater, and many of the wired lines carrying signals from the towers to the networks were knocked out by wind and trees.
We have individuals who when it's zero visibility like that, they will actually close their eyes because the eyes do nothing underwaterwhen you can't see anyway.
The irony beyond the historical reality that many investors were ultimately caught underwaterwhen technology shares sagged, is that prudent investment advisors were telling clients all along to look at stocks the way they would look at their house.