Small Business Survival: Lessons From Superstorm Sandy

As small business owners working in lower Manhattan, we’ve spent the month recovering from Superstorm Sandy. We were without power, heat, and plumbing for a week, but we count ourselves lucky. We thought we would tough it outâ€" until Day 3 when we lost cell service and realized that things were much worse than we could have imagined. We decided to flee, if we could. We dreamt of a faraway land ...