On Monday night, Hurricane Sandys flood waters inundated electrical equipment underneath lower Manhattan and left hundreds of thousands of residents there . Climate Desk is on the ground reporting in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. The Climate Desk is a journalistic collaboration dedicated to exploring the impact—human, environmental, economic, political—of a changing climate. The Daily News follows Jacob Katz, a 4th year medical student currently applying to residency programs who has been volunteering his time to check on the .