As superstorm Sandy flooded the eastern seaboard Monday night, 36-year-old Adam Pasick, managing website editor for New York Magazine, was dealing with a deluge of incoming content from a makeshift office in his parents' Ann Arbor home on Powell Avenue.
New York Magazine managing online editor Adam Pasick, 36, works from a makeshift office in his parents' Ann Arbor home Monday night.
Courtesy of Adam Pasick
Adam Pasick, an Ann Arbor native, had traveled back to town Saturday to visit his parents -- Robert Pasick and Patricia Pasick -- and to cheer on the Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park as they made their World Series run against the San Francisco Giants.
Neither the outcome of the game -- a loss for the Tigers -- nor the storm cooperated for Adam Pasick this weekend.
As his Monday flight back to New York was canceled, he decided he would have to stay put.
From 8 a.m. Monday to about midnight, Adam Pasick was hard at work on the New York Magazine site from several laptops propped up with piles of books from his parents’ kitchen.
“It’s not the worst place to cover the hurricane,” Adam Pasick said, pointing out his parents’ well-stocked pantry as a definite perk.
Adam Pasick said his Brooklyn apartment didn’t lose power - so he surmised he would have likely been able to easily work through the storm at home. However, living next to the Gowanus Canal -- which has completely flooded as a result of the storm -- may have caused some problems, Adam Pasick said.
With staff scattered across the country -- some live in California and along the west coast -- everyone has pitched in to cover what has happened in New York, Adam Pasick said.
“It’s a hard thing to watch all this happen to New York,” Adam Pasick said.
Adam Pasick, a graduate of Pioneer High School, has been the managing website editor for the magazine for the past two years.
Amy Biolchini covers Washtenaw County, health and environmental issues for AnnArbor.com. Reach her at (734) 623-2552, amybiolchini@annarbor.com or on Twitter.