Last month, as Winter Storm Nemo bore down on the East Coast, New Yorkers wearily set about the now-familiar ritual of preparing for power outages and other discomforts. Fortunately, Nemo, while serious, didn’t hit the city too hard; Boston and upper New England bore the brunt of it. New Yorkers must have felt they were owed one, as it hadn’t been four months since Sandy, the catastrophic storm whose effects still reverberate and may shape policy for years to come. At least one earlier storm had that effect. Marking an anniversary tomorrow, it even helped spur the construction of the New York subway.
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