It appears the MSM’s Obamagasms over the handling of Sandy’s aftermath may have been premature.
Can’t Obama just airlift some solar panels in there to make everything good again?
Look what is happening right before your eyes and take heed.
You either prepare and stand on your own beholden to no one or you become dependent on others to provide your basic needs and become thier ‘serf’. Me I don’t want to be beholden to anyone for providing what is needed for me and mine. I certainly don’t want to have to kiss some ‘gubberment’ third class bureaucratic to try and coax some help from them, I don’t want some ‘jack booted’ thug herding me in line and telling me where to stand, sit, eat or sleep. And last but not least I don’t want to be shut up in with a bunch of ‘zombies’ and have to worry about not only trying to get basic necessities but having to fight to keep what I manage to get.
Its your choice you can prep or you can stand around on a bridge waiting for FEMA to bring you a bottle of water, a MRE, a warm banklet and a kiss for your boo-boo and maybe you can even get your picture as you stand there on the national news.
For those who are just starting or are old hands at prepping you may find my Preparedness Manual helpfull. You can download it at:
http://tomeaker.com/kart/Preparedness1j.pdf
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For those of you who haven’t started already it’s time to prepare almost past time maybe. You needed to be stocking up on food guns, ammo, basic household supplies like soap, papergoods, cleaning supplies, good sturdy clothes including extra socks, underwear and extra shoes and boots, a extra couple changes of oil and filters for your car, tools, things you buy everyday start buying two and put one up.
As the LDS say “When the emergency is upon us the time for preparedness has past.”
Or as the bible says: A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
NIV Proverbs 22:3
“There is no greater disaster than to underestimate danger.
Underestimation can be fatal.”
New Yaw’kers can be pretty brutal to each other...this aint gonna be pretty
Of course those Chevy Volt owners are just zipping around laughing at the folks in the gas lines right?
i am in NY- westchester county...presently at my gym which is like a refugee camp for people with no electric or hot water...we’ve been out since Tuesday and they are now saying we won’t be back until next weekend...hoping to get a generator for, amongst other things, being on Freep Tuesday night...
1) no electric in my house and the weather is going down into the 30’s tonight...sent my daughter and wife to the inlaws while i stay at home...house is like an ice box....
2) people are already starting to go crazy over the slow response to get electric back up and running...tomorrow i will be putting protest signs against Con Ed up on the telephone pole...
3) Con Ed (utility company) guy came to our road where the problem was this afternoon, sat in his car for an hour, then left doing nothing...unions at their finest...
4) drove home tonight looking for a gas station...I found one open in White Plains and the line was at least a mile/hour long...cops had to be called there in the afternoon to regain control of a bad situation...people already fighting....heard of one incident in Putnam county where two young guys spit on an older guy over who got to the pump first then the older guy decked one of the guys...
4) while i found just one gas station open at least 8 others in the White Plains area were pitch black or had signs which read “no gas”...its a sad situation thats going to get worse...
this is going to blow up in obama’s face- the situation will get worse before it gets better....i’m going to get something to eat- assuming i can find a restaurant, then go home, start a fire and try and get through the night...
If anything that comes out of hurricane Sandy or hurricane Katrina is the PROOF that liberals are dependent on big government.
I hate that people are suffering. Really, I do. I’ve been caught unprepared before and it sucks.
BUT...
With all the talk of prepping that’s been going on for the past few years, it’s not like it is difficult to see what’s going on around you and wake up or find info or likeminded people to guide you in the right direction. You don’t even have to have a lot of money to start.
Lots of my preps come from the fact that I camp several times a year, and like to have all the comforts of home. We had food and at least two ways to cook it, water, heat, and I was even able to rig one of the table lamps in the living room to run via an inverter off of a 12V RV marine battery. It is amazing how light from an ordinary table lamp improves morale and makes a situation much more “survivable”.
And, had I needed to “bug out”, I also had a full tank and 5 extra gallons of gas in the basement. Even with my thirsty SUV, that’d have gotten me a good 400 miles away.
I’m not a hardcore prepper, but the derecho this summer and Sandy taught me that buying and putting away just a few essentials makes days without power much more liveable.
A basic lesson that a remarkably large number of people fail to realize. Much easier to call the preppers “paranoid whack jobs” and continue living a smug but clueless life.
The time to line up and fill up for gas is BEFORE the storm, not after it hits.
I can feel for those suffering from Sandy. I live in a suburb of New Orleans and we have gone through Katrina and more recently, Isaac. It took us 3 weeks to get power back after Katrina because a tree had fallen on our house and put a big hole in our roof. The electric company wouldn’t turn on our power with a hole in our roof. After Isaac we were out of power for 6 days in 94 degree heat. We had a small generator, but it was only running fans and a few lights and our fridge. The fans were practically useless in that heat. It’s hard when you don’t have electricity.
This is a question I have been wondering about. Has any of the people in the disaster areas used FB to get info out? When those tornadoes hit last year, that is how we got news about ice, gas, etc. a local radio station went storm coverage to get the same info out. We did not have power but some off our phones worked and most people had battery radios.
Too bad they won’t let the gas prices rise on the demand. They probably wouldn’t be dealing with this stuff.