be amazing and a true testament to those who really run the system -- the system maintainers, electricians, bus and subway car maintenance people and so on. Hurricanes over the last decade have not only been occurring with more frequency, but with more severity. Many earth scientists have been saying that New York City is due for a surge and it got one big time. Is this a once in 100-year storm? Probably not. So should we build some storm gates at tunnel entrances and redesign subway entrances and grates to be closed in storms at great capital expense? It is definitely time to rethink the benefit-cost equations . New York can't afford another Sandy.