LOL!
Shep just showed a video of trucks lined up for miles to pick up emergency supplies and said that Panetta is calling out 6000 troops to help. I dunno folks...something just doesn’t sound right here. This storm is bad, but hopefully not THAT bad to need 6000 troops called out. Of course..if they cut the power to NY...who knows!
I’m guessing no one wants a Katrina/post-Katrina federal situation anymore. Now even the feds have to get involved (which they shouldn’t) because no one wants to be accused of being a Callous Bush.
We used to do fine with our Baltimore Gas & Electric, e.g.; they’d send people all up and down the coast to help. (No more, though - they’re Constellation now so they really aren’t good anymore.) At least in the past, private people used to do things just fine.
Most NYers are here in the city, hunkered down in their apts. We only got word late yesterday afternoon that mass transit, Amtrak and the airports were shutting today at noon. That didn’t give many people a chance to flee—and as Shep pointed out we are without cars.
I get the feeling that some of this hyperreaction of local governments is real, and some is just going to help the ‘economy’ in the form of ‘stimulus,’ with a wink and a nod from the Obama regime. Sort of the way that hiring thousands of census takers lowered the unemployment numbers for months.