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Bellevue evacuated
An index of the gravity of the storm damage: New York City’s Bellevue Hospital, which of course lost regular power when Con Ed pre-emptively turned off power below 34th Street, subsequently lost its backup generator due to the storm surge flooding the hospital’s basement and shorting out the generator. All 700-plus patients had to be evacuated. I suppose that patients had to be carried down stairs, since the elevators would not have been operating.
When Bellevue is evacuated, that is serious. Email entry |