Posted on 10/31/2012 12:33:08 AM PDT by GeronL
After Big Sandy, I wonder how many people who thought preppers were "crazy" have changed their minds??
Yes. Take care of yourself. Nothing is more important than that.
Just because the storm wasn’t as bad for all the people it was predicted to be bad for (like us, thank God) doesn’t mean the warnings were a failure.
If people weren’t warned and it was worse than expected, which does happen with weather as well, then you’d see the lynch mobs out ready to string up those who *should have known better* and didn’t say anything.
It’s a lose/lose situation for those in the NWS and NHC. If they warn and it doesn’t happen, they’re accused of fear mongering. If they don’t warn and it does happen, they are responsible for the lost of live and property because they didn’t say anything.
Hindsight is always 20/20 and armchair meteorologists have a worse track record than the real ones.
I don't think that's a fair statement. Lots of folks did not expect the flooding to the extent that it did. Areas like Brooklyn and Queens and many parts of LI were not evacuated in advance and those folks lost their cars if their particular areas were hit. If you noticed, the Jersey shore did not have so many waterlogged cars because folks there were expecting it. Also, in the NYC area, some folks moved their cars to parking garages only to have them washed away there too.
There’s far more to a hurricane than category ranking.
Tell those on the coast and in NYC that it was all hyperbole.
That sounds like a good system that you have. I am not looking to hijack this thread, but if you find the time, would you mind FReepmailing me some details on your system and maybe some links to websites that you frequent? Thanks.
I wonder how many people that mock a low income person that is prepared for 6 months of living with no outside help, or a wealthy person with six months of food and warmth, and lighting stored in his basement ‘preparedness bank’, can wax eloquently, and with great passion on the absolute need to have deep financial preparedness.
Financial preparedness is also a fundamental part of being prepared for emergencies, for the obvious reasons of keeping up with bills and holding on to the mortgage and the new car, etc., but also because it can buy the things that you need in an emergency, but having those things in the first place, takes financial preparedness one step farther because it covers the possibility that your funds won’t be available, or that the goods won’t be available, and I save a fortune on bulk buying years in advance.
I never said it was ALL hyperbole.
It was obvious going to be a widespread storm with very heavy rains. It was being given names like “Frankenstorm” that was weird.
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80% of NJ gas stations without power
Miles-long lines for gas
Stations running out.
Could be 5-7 days for new supplies.
Like maybe 200 miles west where there are plenty of Holiday Inns and McDonalds..........Hello, Good bye........LOL!
Storm surge was greater than expected or predicted. One extra foot of water can cover a lot of land if it’s flat and near sea level.
I don’t get what’s with people who sit back from a distance and expect everyone to be able to predict exactly what is going to happen, when, where, and how and act accordingly.
I do notice that those doing the most criticizing AREN’T posting FROM the hard hit area.
Again, glad that you are doing good.
They’re only whackjobs until we have a total economic collapse or an EMP attack.
Myopic? I think you need to re-examine the nature of the destruction on the east coast and what caused it: massive flooding. So how do you prepare for that considering all your "prepper supplies" are likely in your basement which is now flooded and your firearms carefully and cleverly buried in your flooded backyard?
And if you DO have to evacuate, you're going to have to leave behind your year of survival food and stuff since your car, van, or truck can only hold so much of that stuff.............
"Prepping" is only good for an end of the world scenario which is unlikely to happen in yours or my lifetime.
Did you not read my post 36 to you cause it appears to have escaped your attention.....
So here’s a link to it again
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2952623/posts?page=36#36
There are far more homes unflood, but with people with no power and no way to get anywhere than there are flooded homes. Most likely 9 to 1 or better. Now if each of the homes that are unflood just cut off and with no power have prepped how much less a strain will it be logistically on first responders? How much well being able to take care of yourself and not needing help ease their response and leave more for those that need it?
Wow, some of us have needed our preparedness during a number of different decades during our lives, I am in a period right now where my preparedness is carrying me through (not a hurricane).
As a kid we needed our prep goods during hurricanes in the 1950s and 1960s and 1980s.
It not just the prepper either, if you have stuff you can help. If you have power you might not be able to power someone else house, but you can charge batties and electronics for them. If you have a way to cook you can cook a pot luck for your neighbors. And it’s not just about STUFF! If you have skills you can use them to help other. Maybe help with temporary repairs on their house for some one that can’t drive a nail. Provide news and comunications. First aid you share your training. isn’t that better than 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?
I view it in a more fight clubesque perspective.
The first rule of prepping is you do not talk about prepping.
The second rule of prepping is YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT PREPPING!
Outside of my wife and some relatively anonymous blogging I pretty much stick to it.
Psst, do you know how many of those “wackjobs” your surrounded by on FR? I’d tread lightly, FRiend.
Do you have a spare tire if you have a flat? That’s just extra weight that uses gas. Do you have health and home insurance? Why pay for health insurance if you’re likely not to be hospitalized. I mean, really, when was the last time you had surgery, yet you’re paying for health insurance every month and it go unused. What’s that life insurance you’re paying on goig to do for you? You won’t be around to enjoy it. Why bother being prepared for an emergency since one like this only comes around once every so often? What a bunch of foolishnish.
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