[kearnyirish2]

“Even if only ten percent of them drive, that’s 800,000 people trying to jump on five fueling points.”

Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness; it is surreal here. I don’t know what else they can do; the situation is mounting because now people who had to use their gas (for driving or generators) are being joined by people who thought they could get through it now looking for their first gas since the storm hit (again, for driving or generators). The dropping temperatures will put even more of a strain on generators, and there may be snow early next week.

[dirtboy]

Yeah, a few thousand people will get gas out of this - of of how many hundreds of thousands who need it. One would think this scenario would have been wargamed long ago by disaster planners. Sandy gave nearly a week of warning. And now we see that FEMA is out of bottled water in the region and won't have any more until Monday.

Bottled water. They should have been positioning massive quantities of bottled water a week ago when it became over 50 percent certain that Sandy was going to make landfall.