Following superstorm Sandy (we can’t call it a “hurricane”), I endured five days without power and sat for hours through 1970s-style gas lines. While those are minor inconveniences compared with those who lost homes, businesses, and even their lives because of the storm, it still highlights our vulnerability should a real calamity strike.

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