Hasta La Gadget!

NEW YORK — When Jo-An Tremblay-Shepherd, 34, set out from her Brooklyn apartment on Monday morning to visit NYU’s Langone Medical Center neonatal intensive care unit, she expected to ride out the storm with her hospitalized son Jackson, who was born prematurely, at 27 weeks, on Aug. 31. She wasn’t expecting that a half-day later, she would watch a NICU nurse carry her baby and his oxygen tank down nine flights of slippery stairs, guided only by flashlight.

“It was wet, and it was dark,” Tremblay-Shepherd told HuffPost. “The nurse had to take him down the stairs for liability reasons. It was crazy to watch.”

According to NYU, 20 babies were evacuated from the NICU early on Tuesday after power went off and the hospital’s backup generators failed. Lorinda Klein, a spokeswoman for the hospital, said some patients whose breathing had been assisted by machines “were being bagged,” meaning hospital workers manually squeezed air into their lungs.

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