Posted on 11/02/2012 8:14:54 AM PDT by GlockThe Vote
So sick of all these politicians and their messiah complexes. Get the problem fixed or STFU and step down. And i have to laugh at the child like sheep and drones saying "Obama looked so presidential!"
Really? Are some people so gullible, incompetent, and naive to still fall for these publicity stunts? He comes in for 1 hour - 1 hour - and then heads off to Vegas AGAIN for a fundraiser. Boy doesn't that jog my memory of September 12, 2012 as our embassy was in flames w the flag of Al Queada flying high and the ambassador and 2 Navy Seals dead. Wake up people - these politicians are all the same.
I'm sitting in the dark, listening to the radio by flashlight, scavenging for gas in order to get to work, and obama / bloomberg / christie are taking victory laps? Are you FNG KIDDING ME ? ? ? ?
And now BloomBUM wants to hold the marathon while Queens and Staten Island are a mess? How about hand rations to the runners to deliver to the stressed and strapped out homeowners?
Sorry for the rant - just really pissed off.
Stay safe everyone.
Suppose you DID fill every available container with gas? How many days do you think it would last?
I agree that people should have been prepared, and many people did. My daughter reports that many of her friends, who are not prepper types, DID take the warnings seriously and stocked up. But when you look at the magnitude of the destruction, there is only so much one can do.
And the storm surge was greater than expected and it took out infrastructure there is precious little way of prepping for.
I have no sympathy for the whiners who did not prep, but many people did and are still suffering.
To include them in the blanket condemnation of the unprepared as I have seen far too much of on FR, is unconscionable, IMO. I’m willing to cut them some slack as they have NO control over no gasoline, natural gas being turned off because of risk of fire, sewage everywhere, and no transportation due to flooding.
These are communities that existed long before Edison.
My township was founded in 1693.
There are telephone poles everywhere - very few places were planned with buried lines.
Also, the commuter trains run via electrical cables that are suspended above the tracks.
That being said, there has been much burying of fiber optic cables over the past twenty years by private cable companies - in retrospect, the power companies should have partnered with them on that.
New York and New Jersey have very articulated webs of public and private bus services - but with no traffic lights, dwindling fuel supplies and overcrowding, they are overwhelmed.
I’m in SOHO. We lost power around 730pm Monday. There’s power north of 25th street since Wednesday, but that hasn’t changed since yhen.
Most stores downtown are closed. Cash only for pizzerias, who are cleaning up. All is calm.
But outside of gas, there doesn’t seem to be a shortage of anything in the city. I’m on 34th st now eating lunch at Tad’s steakhouse, a nice steak, and will pick up some food (milk, bagels, etc) and walk home.
There’s plenty of most things, if you can hike up past 26th st.
Yes, power lines are buried.
That’s part of the problem. Salt water and electronics don’t mix. The flooding flooded out the electrical infrastructure, besides the public transportation and water and sewer.
Think dropping your cell phone in a muddy tidal pool.
Getting rid of Obama supercedes all else for me right now. I’m prepped enough to last well beyond November 6, 2012.
The nation can survive Hurricane Sandy.
The nation can not survive Hurricane Obama
But there is only so much gasoline you can store up in a private house that could get heavily damaged in a storm before you start creating a new set of life-threatening dangers for yourself.
Go to McSoorely’s and do it old school!
That’s not a tragedy, though. it’s not a disaster. It’s little more than an inconvenience. The real disaster wasn’t people losing their vacation homes, either. It was people who suffered real loss of their homes and businesses and even loss of life.
Marco Rubio was campaigning in the Philadelphia area last night to a packed crowd. The venue only held 500, but the place was full. People are back to normal, except those who don’t have power back.
Need to get All the people in Staton Island to walk to the Marathon and ask for their water and power bars !!
metmom makes a good point. Even the newer communities that have buried power lines are subject to the water table.
Gas will last up to three months without going stale. People could watch the storm work its way up the coast. You’re left with two options: either stay and ride it out, or head out of town. Secondly people living in coastal areas for any length of time know about storms coming up the coast and should have an emergency evacuation kit. It’s a gamble of whether to stay or flee. In either case, it’s advanced prep. BTW, as for gas, you can add a chemical which will make it last longer. Problem is people become complacent. They feel everything will work out okay but when it really does happen they run around mad.
True, and at least you prepared best you could. Filling your car’s tank was a good start. Maybe heading to a war surplus store to get metal gas cans would survive some pretty heavy damage. From what I’ve been reading there are people who are mad at those that prepared and demand they help those that didn’t. Family comes first.
I’m a prepper - good to go. Have cash, silver, guns, ammo, coleman grill, plenty of butane tanks, dry food. 3 STHF bags ready to go. 5 5 gallon poland spring water cannisters, katadyne filters, radios, batteries, flashlights, cold weather gear, dry bags, emergency blankets, etc etc.
Everyone made fun of me and called me an extremist for being a prepper. Who is calm, preppared and not paniced now?
Prayers for you, Glock. I know it is very difficult to be trapped in a house with all that mess.. no lights, worry, etc.. If it is any consolation (and I know it is of very little) but good thoughts your way. Stay strong.
Been accused myself of understating the power of this Tropical Storm, (it did not even make US landfall as a Hurricane), but I must point out that there were many tourist and visitors who just happened to be in the area at the time. Know a few of them myself. And how does NYC help their tourist and visitors in the time of need ? They throw a marathon to entertain their unfortunately stranded guests.
That was really stupid on the part of Bloomie.
Thank you. But above else - VOTE VOTE VOTE
Get rid of Obama!
People were more than happy to share at first, because they figured after a few days the local governments would have their acts together.
And some people are frustrated - for example, my local grocery store arbitrarily decided at 1pm or so on Saturday that they would limit sales of water, canned goods, etc. per customer.
So people were on line waiting patiently with carts full of groceries and were told that the cashiers would only ring up a small percentage of what they had in their carts, while they watched other people cramming their cars full of goods outside the store.
It's hard to say that the person who got to the register at 12:59 was truly a wise ant and that the person two places behind them in line was a foolish grasshopper.
In many cases it was luck of the draw.
BTW, my wife laughed when I bought pounds of jerky. Not too many uncanned proteins last very long.
As for the Marathon, I hope those asshole runners get pissed on as they jog through Brooklyn and Queens.
Just derove past a two mile long gas line on Northern Blvd. that stretched for two miles from Great Neck to CIP.
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