Posted on 11/02/2012 1:55:07 AM PDT by Kartographer
Full Title: SHOCK: 72 Hours After Grid-Down: Starvation, Supply Shortages, Food Lines, No Clean Water, No Gas, Transportation Standstill *Independent Reports, Pics, Video*
A recent study noted that the majority of people have enough food in their pantries to feed their household for about three days and that seemingly stable societies are really just nine meals from anarchy. With most of us dependent on just-in-time transportation systems to always be available, few ever consider the worst case scenario.
For tens of thousands of east coast residents that worst case scenario is now playing out in real-time. No longer are images of starving people waiting for government handouts restricted to just the third-world.
In the midst of crisis, once civilized societies will very rapidly descend into chaos when essential infrastructure systems collapse.
Though the National Guard was deployed before the storm even hit, there is simply no way for the government to coordinate a response requiring millions of servings of food, water and medical supplies
Many east coast residents who failed to evacuate or prepare reserve supplies ahead of the storm are being forced to fend for themselves.
Frustration and anger have taken hold, as residents have no means of acquiring food or gas and thousands of trucks across the region remain stuck in limbo.
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We can’t have generators or gas grills at NJ apartments so pardon me for not having any sympathy for your situation.
Just saying.
Scavenging for gas as I type.
It strikes me that government actions are exacerbating the problems.
Kinda hard to cook with no fuel source.
Kinda hard to buy gas when the purchase of it is restricted and regulated by some law.
Certainly sympathize....
I’m hearing noises that the whole area is very, very short on gasoline and diesel because the refinery in NJ got taken out, and will be out for 6-8 weeks. It’s not over for you guys yet. Conserve fuel, have a plan.
Just pay someone who doesn’t need gas to buy some.
Capitalism. It’s a good thing.
If you're from NJ, blame the unions, they turned away non-union electrical repair crews from Alabama, wouldn't let them work.
Where is the removal of "red tape" when help comes, the union rules, and the average citizen gets screwed.
Just pay someone who doesn’t need gas to buy some.
Capitalism. It’s a good thing.
Within 3 days after Katrina, Bush’s admin had rescued 20,000 people from flooded neighborhoods
Within 5 days, they evacuated 40,000 people from New Orleans
Just sayin.
This is not a politically corect post, but it needs to be said.
I was out of power for 3 weeks after Hurricane Isabel. It wasn’t much fun, but workers were going around the clock and everyone understood. What I can’t seem to wrap my arms around is why New Yorkers just can’t seem to handle it. I thought they were suppose to be tough.
We need to deploy a minimum of 10,000 government inspectors backed by a similar number number of government lawyers to make sure prices are rolled back to a baseline level, as established by a new, comprehensive federal regulation that will developed over the weekend and published Monday, setting maximum allowable prices, profit levels, hours of operations, Davis Bacon and Buy American standards for all products going into the affected regions, and delivery preferences for majority minority and socially disadvantaged areas.
We would not want to impede ongoing relief efforts, but all businesses should be on notice that the new regulations will be retroactive to the week before the storm. All records must be kept and submitted to the Emergency Relief Price Board, and all businesses must be prepared justify their decisions or face treble damanges.
Only then can we be confident that the recovery will be fair.
No kidding.
These crews from the Gulf south know how to fix these problems in their sleep.
Roll Tide.
I’ve seen a number of the smaller, heating oil home delivery trucks
running south on 301 in Southern Md. and Virginia. They are from
New York and Connecticut. Guessing none available in bulk in
Baltimore or Philly. Probably going all the way to Norfolk.
Hopefully the refinery is just without power or slight damage. The power crews will go there first. Not for you per se but because they must have fuel to get their restoration work done. Based on all the crews that left here in the south, I am betting power will be restored within a week.
The lack of government intervention is purposeful. Why? So they have an excuse to swoop in last minute and postpone the election.
Do you have details on that? Is it in any linkable news reports?
That needs to be here on FR and to be trumpeted far and wide, but we need something more than “some guy told me”.
The Southern crews know their stuff, they do this all the time after hurricanes.
No, that will not happen. Even post disater-wise, polling places have voting machines that do run on batteries or that the places will be move.
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