An Update

Well, it seems this morning's flood was a little more serious than I thought. From our building manager:

Dear Residents,

Due to a problem with the city's utilities, our building suffered a flood this morning. In an effort to preserve the safety of the building and our tenants- we were forced to cut off electricity & gas to the building. We are currently working with FDNY, NYPD, Con Edison and the Office of Emergency Management to restore service to 90 West. We are still waiting for an update from officials to let us know when we can expect power to be restored. We will be setting up an emergency hotline and will be sending you updates via email as we receive more information from the OEM. We apologize for this unforeseen event and we are exhausting every effort possible to restore service to you.

Fortunately, Lynn and I have candles everywhere in the apartment. Power outages are rare in NYC, but this could be interesting.