As you may have heard by now there is a major outage of power in the east. I'm out here in it although luckily for me I am not in one of the major cities (I am visiting a small town north of Detroit). The building where I'm working has a deisel generator so I can still surf (priorities, ya know..)
Hopefully the power comes back soon. It sounds like big cities are a real mess right now. Rush hour traffic, no traffic lights, no subways, people stuck in elevators. What a nightmare.
Hope this resolves quickly.