As Hurricane Sandy continues to tear up the east coast of the United States, many people are wondering how it will affect NYC and the business base that exists there. It can be assumed that the storm’s aftermath will affect east coast businesses for weeks, if not months.

A blog thread on Huffington Post has owners of local companies posting about the effects of the hurricane on their businesses thus far. Most have suffered power outages and had to close down certain locations due to flooding.

This, however, illustrates merely how the businesses on the east coast are suffering the likes of Sandy. It is important to understand that many companies that lie far from the hurricane’s reach are also suffering its wrath. Closed air traffic and cancellations on cargo operations in the region have put gaps in many external companies’ supply chains as products that pass through New York on their way to their destination, have been halted.

Sandy served not only as a reminder of changing climatic patterns, but the impact of those patterns on business.

Hurricane Sandy photographed from space

Sources:

http://www.logisticsmgmt.com/view/nations_supply_chains_disrupted_by_hurricane_sandy/3pl

http://www.theferrarigroup.com/supply-chain-matters/2012/10/31/supply-chain-matters-update-two-effects-of-hurricane-sandy-on-the-u-s-northeast/