Greets and saluts from the battered but not beaten NYC metro area. Daylight is revealing quite the scene of devastation across the NYC metro area. Millions are without power (we thankfully avoided losing power by inches - a power line on the block arced a few times but never gave out) and it may be a week or more before power is restored.

Flooding has displaced hundreds of thousands from New Jersey through Long Island and Connecticut and it will be some time before we get a read on just the extent of the damage.

On the transit front - the MTA is shutdown along with PATH, NJ Transit, Amtrak, airports (10,000 flights canceled nationwide), and it may be several days before we get some limited transit restored.

Oh, and there are now reports of a levee failure on the Hackensack River from Hackensack to Carlstadt with water evacuations underway.