It's now the boring dystopia and we still have some people trying to hand wave it away. Here's one from Nyc: https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/16vc42t/williamsburg_this_morning/
I did partially leave that beautiful city because after Sandy my take was if it was ever hit by a direct hurricane or decent storm it would suffer greatly. And no one was trying to fix anything. We'll see if that turns out to be right or not. Be safe out there.