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From the article, twitter responses: Via Twitter:

I was in chaos tonite tryin to get groceries…lines for shuttle buses, only to get to the no food left & closing early (link)

I’m not sure what has shocked me more, all the communities around me destroyed, or the 5 hour lines for gas and food. (link)

Haven’t slept or ate well in a few days. Hope things start getting better around here soon (link)

These days a lot of people are impatient because they’re used to fast things. Fast food, fast internet, fast lines and fast shipping etc. (link)

Glad Obama is off to Vegas after his 90 minute visit. Gas lines are miles long.. Running out of food and water. Great Job (link)

Went to the Grocery store and lines were crazy but nail salon was empty so I’ve got a new gel manicure and some Korean junk food (link)

So f*cking devastated right now. Smell burning houses. People fighting for food. Pitch darkness. I may spend the night in rockaway to help (link)

So f*cking devastated right now. Smell burning houses. People fighting for food. Pitch darkness. I may spend the night in rockaway to help ...

It's amazing, the National Guard, FEMA, and the Red Cross haven't made it to Rockaway but Occupy Wall Street has. They and a Sikh group from Queens have been bringing in hot meals. They're also bringing brooms and shovels, pitching in with the cleanup.

I wonder which burning houses he was smelling ... the 110 that burned to the ground in Breezy or the more than two dozen that are gone in Belle Harbor? Maybe it's the Rockaway Park shopping district where it's taken 4 days to extinguish fires in block after block of stores, all with apartments above and bungalows behind.

I haven't heard from my brother since before the storm hit. He's 70-years-old and one of the original preppers ... but there's just so much you can store in a one-bedroom 2nd-floor oceanfront apartment. I'm sure whatever he has he is sharing with other tenants in his building.

At least he and the other residents don't have wait in long lines for buses because there are none ... and they don't have to wait in long lines for groceries because there are no grocery stores left.

Imagine how many cans of food all those Twitterers could have prepped instead of spending so much money on their cell phone service and time wasted with their fingers tweeting. No sympathy for anyone without food or water just hours after the storm.

You have to actually work NOT to have any food in your house. It’s almost impossible not to have a couple boxes of cereal, a few cans of chicken noodle soup, or even Halloween candy sitting on the kitchen counter. When they had a week’s notice and still didn’t get off the couch to prep for their children, well, that’s simply disgusting.

I’m marking invasions of zombies off my list. They’re simply not smart enough.