Funny - the entire American Northeast and parts of Canada are without power. The pictures from New York are already absurd: thousands of people trudging among the cars on the streets, the whole thing reminds you a bit of an anthill.
Then they should start training midwives diligently, in 9 months they'll probably be urgently needed in larger quantities.
The current rumor about the cause is incidentally an overload of the hydroelectric power plant at Niagara Falls.