While FedEx had stocks of oil in advance of the storm for generators, it was not prepared for the gas shortages that caused long lines at stations on Wednesday and Thursday.
In lower Manhattan, a real estate broker kept his office open during the storm, with a generator and hot coffee so neighbors could charge their cell phones and first responders could get out of the wind and rain.
Several hundred Marines from Camp Lejeune, N.C., were sent to New York just days after the storm with electrical generators and water pumping and purification equipment.
Throughout the play, E. M. Lewis's fictional researchers are beset with immediate concerns — vicious storms, a failing generator, the maddening paradox of isolation without privacy — but global fears follow them, too.
Throughout the play, E. M. Lewis's fictional researchers are beset with immediate concerns vicious storms, a failing generator, the maddening paradox of isolation without privacy but global fears follow them, too.
Yet another data center, west of Houston, was so well prepared for the storm — with backup generators, bunks and showers — that employees' displaced family members took up residence and United States marshals used it as a headquarters until the weather passed.
But it was built of thick precast concrete to withstand a major storm, with backup generators and raised water tanks and circuitry, along with basketball courts, roomy living pods, more than 600 security cameras, biometric entrance scanners and video screens that inmates can use to talk to family members via Skype.
Health and emergency officials surveyed the facilities before the storm "to eyeball generators," watch them be turned on, and assess fuel and food supplies, Shah said.
For one day, supermodels, hair and makeup artists, and even Rihanna descended upon the historic building for the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show (the lingerie brand actually helped the National Guard during the storm with extra generators they had on hand for the performance).
Across the region, people spend most of their income on daily essentials like food, clean water, shelter and medicine, with little left over for greeting Irma and Maria with lifesaving hurricane-resilient roofs, storm shutters, solar generators and first aid kits.
The local hospital completely lost power during the storm and its emergency generator was overwhelmed by the flooding.
