I wonder how many GWW members have ever been located in that part of the US? (Or even in the US!).

I'm thinking that part of the public policy debate over the coming months will have to do with whether people should be allowed to build that close to the ocean ever again. Insurance companies sure are not going to want that kind of exposure, over and over again. I see them leading the charge over Climate Change due to dirty power manufacture/consumption, from now on.

NYC is going to need to think about bigger barriers, or moveable barriers, like the UK and Netherlands installed decades ago.

While US business is busy piddling its time and energy gambling in risky paper investments above board and in the shadows of Wall Street markets, rather than manufacturing goods and services for B2C and B2B, the various units of government, and insurance companies, will be stimulating the economy with $30-$40 Billion of economic recovery in the affected areas. Again, if public policy allows certain rebuilding that close to the ocean again.

Most important to me is how my sales fared during the storm. A whole lot of our consumers were without power, and possibly homes, for an extended period of time - including still today, and possibly into next week! Some lost their possessions, including physical hardware needed to access our content online.

DogGone Video, offices on the east coast of Florida - no interruption in business, sales were typical, if not slightly up, for a week where I did not have a new release.

AEBN, offices in North Carolina - no interruption in business, sales were typical for a week where I did not have a new release.

HotMovies, offices in Philadelphia - office was closed at least Mon-Tue if not also Wed, sales were up considerably as I had a popular new release.

TLA, offices in Philadelphia - office was closed at least Mon-Tue if not also Wed, sales were up a bit.

Nook eBooks, offices seem to be in NYC(!), member backend was down periodically Mon-Wed, sales reports were down, 30th of the month payday is late.

2 of my banks are headquartered in NYC, and one other, that has limited monthly activity, somewhere on the east coast. It appears that Monday was the worst day for them to keep up with transactions as normal, possibly some also on Tuesday. Transactions are up-to-date now, except two incoming ACH from vendors which should have arrived by now. 2 of 6.

While many of use have scratched our heads over the years wondering why Silicon Valley has developed itself in a seismically active part of San Francisco, with the inherent risks to telephone utility cables, and wiring and hardware infrastructure in their server farm offices, it baffles me to this day why any high volume Internet service puts any of its eggs in a basket in a east coast big city - not only for exposure to Hurricanes and blizzards, but also the high cost of real estate and transportation costs for labor.

Why is Apple in SFO, Nook in NYC, why is (much of) PayPal now in SFO (EBAY) when it started out in Omaha? And big name credit card companies are in South Dakota! Amazon is in Seattle, a nice place, but very near a Sound that can be wiped out by high tides and storm surges, or even Tsunamis in that seismically active region, as NJ and NYC just were by Sandy.

There's nothing saying high caliber talent needs to live in big cities, with high rents and exposure to earthquakes and Hurricanes, because there's more Starbucks per square mile, sit down Asian buffets, and trendy bars.

Hurricane Sandy affected a thousand miles and 15% of the US population - yet when corporate offices and infrastructure sits in the path of recurrent weather patterns, that affects the rest of the 85% of the US population as well.

This kind of weather is not going to stop with Sandy. Internet companies need to think abut the wisdom of being located in the path of Sandy's successors.