Some Metro Firms Report Recovery in Sandy’s Devastating Wake

No small part of the $50 billion economic loss being attributed to storm Sandy will come from business interruptions suffered by printing firms throughout the tristate metro region. Wherever the damage was worst, the toll taken on these highly vulnerable manufacturing operations was highest. Many remain out of commission, their electrical power gone, their communications severed, their work piling up and their employees stranded at home with gas gauges pointing at empty. But, as early as last Friday, in some of the less hard hit boroughs and towns, the first signs of recovery were beginning to appear.