Winter is coming to New York, which should send a shiver — and a shudder — through residents who know how close the city came to catastrophe just two years ago, and how little has been achieved to prevent it from happening again.
As Christmas approached in 2022, so did Winter Storm Elliott, a 2,000-mile-wide storm that produced blizzard conditions and plunging temperatures across the Eastern United States and Canada. Elliott killed more than 70 people, knocked out more than 1,700 electricity generating units, caused rolling blackouts in Tennessee, the Carolinas, and Kentucky, and dropped thermostats in Wisconsin to 60 degrees.
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