A RESILIENT RENEWAL

摘要

In 2012, the East River swamped the New York University Langone Medical Center complex, four city blocks long, during Hurricane Sandy. People directly across FDR Drive saw massive waves cresting the river's embankment In short order, the lights went out Water flooded the basement of the medical center and killed the complex's power system. Patients had to be carried down darkened stairwells by hospital staff and evacuated in the midst of whipping winds and sheets of rain to ambulances that took them to other hospitals.