……face crises that arise throughout the state every day, from fires to water main breaks to building collapses, doing so with their trademark resilience. And whereas residents have long been accustomed to lousy – aand sometimes dangerous—winter weather, it wasn’t until Superstorm Sandy hit in 2012, costing over three-dozen lives and roughly $30 billion in damages, that the state realized its vulnerability to natural disasters as well as man-made ones.     Read more………