Yes, when you compare modern society to the pioneers we are spoiled and require luxuries. The thing is, there are no more open plains to lay a claim on. How many FReepers would do that in a heartbeat these days, a lot?
Sure they had it much worse in the “olden days”, but those people lived in the olden days None of us grew up thinking that is a normal way of life. Maybe a couple of decades living in a shack without power and running water we’d get used to it, but we wouldn’t like it because we know there is better now.
As much as radical leftists talk about wanting to take away our electricity and gasoline and easy food supply, I don’t think more than a few percent of Americans would agree, and many of them are probably comfortable or wealthy. They’ll be exempt of course.
So, yes, living in a high-rise public housing complex with no power and water is a harsh, horrible thing. These are people who have been brainwashed to government dependence, they probably thought preppers were nuts. Many are waiting for the Mayor’s Nanny Wagons to bring help to this day.
It’s horribly sad.
Maybe on election day FEMA will give them an MRE, a week after the storm. That is the storm response that Obama was praised to the hilt for, a week to get one MRE! If it goes as planned, anyways.
I think many will learn lessons from this, I know I have.
I learned that a Cat 1 storm can be turned into a Cat 10 by lousy leftist politicians more concerned with PR than actually getting things done. Bloomberg wants to put on marathons and concerts and pretend its all better now that Obama came by for a photo-op. He is an elitist snob.
If George W Bush were Governor of NY he would be there with a chainsaw cutting up fallen trees and handing out bottled water from the back of a truck. Something that would lift morale and hopes a lot more than putting on a high-class celebrity-studded party on Times Square.