Hurricane Sandy has destroyed many things in the New York City, which everyone would be aware of. The devastation has also been noticed to have affected wireless and wired communication services in some regions. Now, a recent report has revealed that post-storm, Uber is also facing a problem in limo-summoning service.

The report says that the prices of a ride around the city have been doubled after the storm. Since, the PR maelstrom has also landed up in the region. It is being said that Uber would this week turn unusable in case price surging is not done. Uber has previously also polarized the public, when it had got into clashes with taxi regulators from different big cities.

As per the findings, the number of drivers in the region would decline in case prices are not allowed to go high. Also, this in turn would result in over-burdening of the fewer drivers left with higher demands.

It seems that this is the reason why the company is now charging riders the same fare, while paying double amount to drivers. "Uber's response to Sandy gives a useful foretaste of what Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has in mind when he promotes his utopian ideal of a totally unregulated cab market", Paul Carr was quoted as affirming.