The highest number of people affected that I read last night was 44,000. That’s about 4.4% of the New York City population.
How did a measurement of 4.4% of a group of people become “massive”.
If the event had covered all of Manhattan, or all of Queens, or all of the Bronx, or all of Brooklyn or Staten Island, you might get away with calling the event “massive”. A single section of the upper west side of Manhattan alone, and no other part of NYC, does not make it a “massive” event.
I guess I should have referred to it as “big nothing” or “minor”, perhaps a “Little” power outage,