Posted on 11/08/2012 8:34:01 AM PST by Kartographer
A winter storm battered the Northeast coast Thursday after cutting power to at least 115,000 homes and dumping record snowfalls in the New York City area.
The National Weather Service warned of wind gusts as high as 60 mph along the coast, “minor to moderate” flooding from storm surges, and more snow, particularly in New England, early Thursday.
More than 600,000 people were without electricity as a result of superstorm Sandy and the new storm.
NBCNewYork.com reported that more than 198,000 Long Island Power Authority customers, 55,000 Con Edison customers in New York City and Westchester County, 197,560 Jersey Central Power & Light customers, and 9,000 Atlantic City Electric customers had no power.
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What do you expect?
Obie is Weenie In Chief
They better not be using any high sulfur fuel oil, either.
They should feel really good about themselves, though, not using any coal generated electricity in the interim.
There are people everywhere who cuss preppers (even some on this board). Just think if the rapture comes before tribulation starts, we are actually prepping for those left behind. I'm thinking people who say they will kill us for our supplies, likely aren't Christians, so they are left and they get all our supplies for free.
In that case, I'll take the rapture and they can have my supplies as I won't need them again. Therefore, non Christians should pray for the rapture - no, wait, they don't pray, oh, well.....
The reason that I’ve gathered as to why most leftists hate preppers is that we are escaping the judgement of their own eschatology.
Their highest form of nirvana seems to be that everyone suffers, that “we’ll all be in the same boat” as one put it. This is their equivalent of the “new heavens and earth” promised to Christians in the Bible.
They, for some reason, think that condition to be FAR SUPERIOR to the present state of affairs where some people, through their own hard work and choices, live better lives than others, and don’t have to beg for sustenance.
Preppers, by being prepared to have a sustainable life outside the collective and not dependent on the “god” of government, are screwing up their perfect world.
“Their highest form of nirvana seems to be that everyone suffers, that “we’ll all be in the same boat”...”
That’s true - they want us all to be equal - poor and miserable - except for their annointed leaders.
I say since the government uses our money to provide a safe place filled with milk and honey for Hussein and family, I am as important as he is, so I’ll use my money to provide safety and milk and honey for me.
“Their highest form of nirvana seems to be that everyone suffers, that “we’ll all be in the same boat”...”
That’s true - they want us all to be equal - poor and miserable - except for their annointed leaders.
I say since the government uses our money to provide a safe place filled with milk and honey for Hussein and family, I am as important as he is, so I’ll use my money to provide safety and milk and honey for me.
I've been reconnecting with old friends via Facebook, and when things get too partisan, I'll switch the subject to earthquake prepping.
Oooh boy, you’ve got reason to be worried.
If you haven’t seen this:
http://nhne-pulse.org/megathrust-earthquake-overdue-for-u-s-north-west-coast/
Great post, not that I'm surprised coming from you.
Maybe us conservaties should call Gov. Romney and ask him to help us eat some of these preps, drink some of these stockpiled brews, and/or help us shoot up some of this damn ammo! :)
Me? Worry? I live in Coos Bay, Oregon, formerly known as Marshfield. It’s a bunch of bay dredgings dragged in to fill old marshes. The Police and Fire Departments are built in the middle of what will become Jello in a megaquake. If the tsunami approaches from the northwest, it will swamp the North Spit(think Jersey Shore without houses) and fill the bay, surge up the river, and then suck the town out to sea.
Let them eat Christie
I’ve worked on disaster operations in many parts of the US. The reaction you see is not unique to NY & NJ. I have seen victims in all areas go through phases including anger at not receiving help as fast as they think they should get it.
They simply do not understand why it takes so long sometimes to get them the things they need or want. They are in a kind of shock that takes awhile to wear off.
Of course there are always some folks in every situation and state who complain for the sake of complaining just like there are folks in every area who just pick up the pieces and quetly do the best they can.
Thanks!
Here in North Carolina, we can eat kudzu if TSHTF. Mr. Romney would be welcome ... kudzu really isn’t bad, kind of like very chewy spinach ;-).
Whatever. Call 1-800-big daddy gov’t.
NE? No sympathy from me...sorry!
“They voted for the t*rd-in-chief.
Let the b*stards freeze to death in the dark.
(Not really, but it really felt good to say it.)”
Here is how the two hardest hit counties in New Jersey voted on Tuesday
MONMOUTH
Obama - 125,471
Romney - 140,376
OCEAN
Obama - 89,625
Romney - 127,425
It really shouldn’t make a difference what the political affiliation of a disaster victim is but in this case it was more Republicans getting clobbered than Democrats.
Oh, I know it’s not unique to NY/NJ, just that they aren’t often his with ‘hurricanes’ and I think it was a rude shock to a lot of them, especially being ‘city dwellers’ and accustomed to services (and not having resources like wood stoves, etc.) that a natural disaster would occur and affect them so profoundly.
I’ve worked police/fire/EMS dispatch during/aftermath of a hurricane in our area (not coastal) & boy, folks really get mad if their power isn’t back on in a couple of hours, at the most a day or two. When it gets on to two and three weeks, folks are becoming ‘not rational’. Fortunately, after a couple of bad ice storms (power out 3 weeks for some in cold weather) & then Isabelle, many folks around here have generators and know to keep gas on hand or go get it at the first sign of “weather”. We personally have more than one generator ..... during the most recent ‘derecho’, power was off for 3 days and we didn’t miss a beat. NY/NJ folks are getting a harsh lesson, especially so when it’s their first major event in decades and they find out the hard way that the only ‘sure thing’ is what you have prepared for yourself.
It seems the usual gubmint advice “make sure you keep on hand 3 days of food and water” meme isn’t working very well...
I generally agree with your point however most of the areas that were hit in New Jersey are not urban areas but suburban and rural.
The NJ coast is used to bad storms but really nothing like this which literally destroyed some beach communities and carved new channels right through barrier island towns from the ocean to the bay.
Some areas are still cut off and residents have not been allowed to return to see what if anything they have left. I commute to work with some folks from the area and nobody knows a living soul who has ever seen anything near this bad strike the shore.
Lots of people have generators but when 75% of area gas stations are put out of commission in a matter of 24 hours, everybody is in big trouble. I haven’t seen a generator yet that runs on good will alone.
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