Climate Adaptation
Storm-Hit New Yorkers Confront Working at Home Without Power
- ‘Refugees’ in New Jersey may remain in the dark for a week
- People flock to Starbucks, 7-Eleven parking lots for internet
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Working from home during a pandemic is hard enough. Now many across the Northeast are being forced to do it without electricity.
Nearly 1.2 million homes and businesses from New York to Delaware are still without power after Tropical Storm Isaias battered the region. In one wealthy enclave of New York City, people are charging laptops in idling cars. On Long Island, Audis are lining up outside of a 7-Eleven in search of WiFi. And in New Jersey and Connecticut, families have decamped to hotels or friends’ houses.