When most people talk about hurricanes, they talk about the storm itself—the dark, swirling experience of watching trees fall from the right side of a glass hurricane window.
But I’m from Florida and I’m here to tell you: The hurricane doesn’t end when the storm ends—it ends when the power and gas comes back on. When I was a kid, latency was part of that process. My siblings and I would play Candy Land in the sweaty Miami dark, while utilities providers and companies scrambled to figure out who needed help.
