[roywiggins]

Weeks is a long time. As long as food and water can be minimally supplied, people can get along pretty well even in awful situations. Stuff only deteriorates once people can't feed themselves.

NYC is already reliant on others for food and water. Supplying it without electricity would be a severe logistics challenge but easier in some ways than in Puerto Rico.

[ocschwar]

NYC's aqueduct system is gravity driven. And food comes in over the interstates.

Sandy knocked out neighborhoods for way more than two days too.