No one can really asses the damage that this monster can cause. The fact the Exchange is closed is already bad.
When 9-11 came - and that was mentioned to happen in the Book of Isaiah (read chapter 9:10 - 11) and you will find Man did exactly what the King of Israel did in those days. To the tee, including plkanting a pine tree from Norway, instead of the sycomores. That was a Harbinger, or a warning. Economic disasters followed after, all detailes in the book. Read "The Habinger" by Johnathan Kahnn.
These days are the same. The damages will be intense and deep.
Jobs cleaning it up. All the electronics which was exposed to water will be replaced with new.
As I watched the blue-coated man standing in the tiny ripples on Battery Park, it seemed to me like maybe the tide is coming in and one of these times it won't leave. Suppose your land gets submerged? Can you start a fish farm?
I think flooding of Atlantic City is not so surprising but flooding of the Subway only happened in comic books. But who are we to object if the Ocean decides to make renovations?
We're phucked, it doesn't really matter though, we are going to be phucked because of either O or R. If you are rich, no worry, if you are poor, you get things free, if you are the working class, bend over.
The cost of all those extra sandbags will certainly have an impact.
The stock market building floor is 3 ft under water. What does that mean for us?