Carmageddon engulfs commuters as NYC stirs Two days after
superstorm Sandy brought New York to a standstill, residents
itching to get back to work and their old lives noticed small
signs that the city might be getting back to—well, not quite
normal. Morning rush-hour traffic appeared thicker than on an
ordinary day as people started to return to work in a New York
without functioning subways. Cars were bumper to bumper on
several major highways. Mayor Michael Bloomberg rang the bell at
the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday morning , reopening it
after a rare two-day closure. Perhaps most promising, though,
was the people waiting at bus stops—a sign that mass transit was
trying to resume even as the subway system and some vehicle
tunnels remained crippled by Sandy's record storm surge. Rosa
Diaz, a 58-year-old diabetic, waited for a bus to take her to
the Bronx so she could she could keep an appointment with her
endocrinologist. She lives in the Flushing section of Queens but
is staying with her mother, who li