i live in the Seaport hood, lower manahattan. we had about a 10' surge and most of the seaport area, shops and residences are at 5' or less, so there was major damage. I am fortunate in that my residence building is at +18' so we had no water damage, thanks for that!
the "surge" was more like an silient, insidiuous creep, the water level slowly rising until it overflowed doorways, breaking down doors and windows from water pressure, filling basements, floating all sorts of debris, and then just as slowly, subsiding. and it crested at about 8
m, so it was dark. quite a nasty event
no power below 38th st maybe until the weekend, so no hot water, internet, chargers, cell phones are dodgy, texting works, etc.
several cars parked in the hood were completely submerged, windows punched out by floating debris.
my shop in the Navy yard was unaffected, except for lost power until today. about a 5' crest over at the yard, but only the lower areas were affected.
I'll try an put up a few shots later
jm