It's always useful to have a sacrifice to feed to the predators.
LMAO! The sad thing is that my neighbor-in-arms and I even discussed that if the outage went into North OC (third-world ghetto area) and lasted longer, we would put up a make shift sign pointing out the gun-hating liberal's house and that this house is armed and ready, as we sat there with our bad bad weapons. We were actually looking for white cardboard to make a sign with an arrow pointing to his house.
We were mostly joking. But then, we didn't know how far the outage would reach. Not very nice, but then survival.
The affluent Orange County Housewives (as in stupid TV shows) and their effeminate husbands don't realize how close we are to the bad guys and how quickly they would start looking for new territory to invade once they looted their own. We stood watch until the power came on about 2:00am.
Note to self: Get generator. Gasoline, propane, and diesel powered. Yeah, I'm late on that one.
BTW, the most pathetic example of the neighbors is when they kept coming around the fortified garage to hear our hand-crank radio, even as late as midnight. I simply told them go back to your car and turn the damn key on and dial in AM radio. Other than one I could see across the street, no one even thought of that. Pitiful. These people vote.
Also, before dark, I quickly drove down to the local liquor store to buy ice (got the last bag) and I think they were gouging under the new Indian ownership. I will look into that. If so, I will give them a shit storm they never thought possible. Anyway, "interesting times", old FR activist. Good to see you're still around.