Cigar Aficionado Rides Out Sandy

 

(Cigar Aficionado) Hurricane Sandy turned the lights off for millions last week and blacked out much of Manhattan. The power outages were felt far and wide, with 8.5 million East Coast residents in the dark at one point. We at Cigar Aficionado magazine were no different. Our magazine’s offices were closed for the entire week of October 29, and remained without power until Saturday, November 3. With no power in our servers, we were unable to post our daily updates to CigarAficionado.com. Even as electricity was restored to New York, the recovery process wreaked havoc on our internal systems, and kept us from posting updates to the site until this morning. No other disaster, natural or otherwise, has kept us out of business for so long. Continued