Posted on 11/01/2012 6:24:55 AM PDT by blam
Tempers Flare: Residents Complain Government Is Too Slow Distributing Food And Supplies
Mac Slavo
October 31st, 2012
Hurricane Sandy made landfall just 36 hours ago and already we’ve received reports of looting in hard-hit areas with some people brazenly taking to Twitter to post pictures of their new found wealth.
Ahead of the storm panic buying left grocery and hardware store shelves empty as concerned residents stocked up on food, water, batteries, flashlights, and generators.
With the run on supplies over the weekend, tens of thousands of people were inevitably left without essential survival items due to shortages across the region, and now they are demanding action from government officials.
Officials in the city of Hoboken, N.J., are defending their response to severe flooding from superstorm Sandy.
Public Safety director Jon Tooke says at least 25 percent of the city on the Hudson River across from Manhattan remains under water. He estimates at least 20,000 people are stranded and says most are being encouraged to shelter in place until floodwaters recede.
Tempers flared Wednesday morning outside City Hall as some residents complained the city was slow to get food and other supplies out to the stranded.
Tooke says emergency personnel have been working 24/7. He says the “scope of this situation is enormous.”
Without any way to heat their homes due to power outages, no food in their pantries and water supplies potentially tainted with polluted flood waters, those who failed to prepare are now at the mercy of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s crisis safety net.
But, as FEMA has advised in its emergency preparedness guidelines, despite millions of dollars in supplies having been purchased by the Federal government, if emergency responders and the transportation infrastructure is overwhelmed, help may not be coming for days or weeks.
While damage from Hurricane Sandy may not be as widespread or severe as earlier reports suggested it could be, what should be crystal clear is that any serious long-term emergency would be horrific for the non-prepper.
In New Jersey some 20,000 residents are affected and already there are not enough supplies to go around and sanity is rapidly destabilizing.
The government simply does not have the manpower to deal with an emergency requiring the delivery of food and water to hundreds of thousands of people. The saving grace for the east coast is that the damage was not as bad as it could have been, and residents were made aware of the coming storm days in advance, giving them ample time to stock up or evacuate.
Imagine the effects of an unforeseen, more widespread disaster such as coordinated dirty-bomb terror attacks, a natural disaster requiring permanent mass evacuations of entire cities, destruction of the national power grid, or the collapse of the currency systems necessary for the global exchange of key commodities.
Even those who set aside supplies for such disasters would be hard-pressed to survive; never mind those who have less than three days of food in their pantries.
Yup, completely agree. They were warned, they chose to ignore the warnings. Typical of city dwellers just about everyplace in this country.
I know when I lived in California, I just didn’t have much space to store things, but I did have enough food and water for 5 days. Of course there if a big quake hit, my food stores might be under rubble, so... Many of my co-workers and friends had little to no prepping done. My own company’s data recovery plan was to have tape drives, etc stored in a different part of California where we had another data center. Uh, guys, what makes you think you’ll be able to get to that part of California in the event of a bad quake or that they wouldn’t be impacted? No one lived there in 1906 so we have no idea if it was impacted by that massive quake. I was roundly ignored.
GEE WHIZ!! You surely don’t mean that BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, the ONE, does not already have this crisis magically FIXED already do you?!! After all, he was the MAGIC ONE who could have fixed Katrina with just a wave of his MAGIC OBAMA WAND; Sandy shouldn’t take too much longer.
Here is what to do if you want to get a lift from a Vogon... forget it. They are one of the most unpleasant races in the galaxy - not actually evil, but bad tempered, bureaucratic, officious and callous. They wouldn't even lift a finger to save their grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal without orders signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public enquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as fire lighters. The best way to get a drink out of a Vogon is to stick your finger down his throat... and the best way to annoy him is to feed his grandmother to the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal. -Douglas Adams The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Substitute any mindless federal bureaucrat for Vogon, and it pretty much describes all government agencies.
Yet these are the same people who voted for 0bama in '08 and are scheduled to do so again this year, and 0bama's main tenet is that government can to things so much better. Do you think they'll connect the dots? I'd say NO.
ROFL.
Perfect!
>>Do you think they’ll connect the dots? I’d say NO.
They can’t even muster the brain power to heed warnings to buy some extra food.
That’s right. It WAS a BIG DEAL! Destroying and burning hundreds, thousands of people’s homes. My son is stuck on Long Island, which is Apocolyptic. No power, and it’s cold and getting colder. No phone. Thankfully, he grew up down to earth and prepared for the storm as best he could. The flooding destroyed his car; and any place he would have evacuated to is as bad or worse off than he is where he is now. - Hoboken aerial shots this morning were heartbreaking. - This is a hard lesson for many people.
Just as with the Stimulus, Obama is going to find here the near-impossibility of getting leviathon government to spring into action and actually do anything.
Forty-eight hours later and this is what it looks like. If things don’t improve in another 48 hours, what will it be?
We have a winner!!! It ain’t like they’re in the Gobi Desert or the Antarctica. God Bless em.
Well said.
Add scuba gear to your list.
My house was in a flood last year. Cellar had four feet of water for about two weeks. Cans and bottled stuff survived well. Pasta and grains did not because I didn't think any water would reach the height I stored them at. I had no problem swimming for my stored food, granted it was warm in August.
Now if the house had floated away, that's a different story.
I was thinking footstool or undercarriage of his bus, but either way, that was funny!
Monday evening I was watching FoxNews and Shep Smith was talking with one of their reporters who was right on the ocean in New Jersey. The reporter (can’t remember his name) said that the surge was starting to come in, to which Smith responded, “There’s an old saying; the wind’ll scare you, but the water’ll kill you.”
And it was green energy, too.
Sorry to hear of your son’s situation.
Do not ever depend on electronics during a disaster.
When TS Irene hit us, the power was out at 8am due to a power line down. At 11 am the landline phones stopped working. Then something happened to the cell towers. No cell service in the area for about three days. Landlines took a week to be restored.
Bulletin boards set up in various places were the primary way to receive information as well as people walking from door to door. All of this took a few days to organize.
Yep, me too, as well as putting all he DRY food goods up in some very high closet. I think this video best displays the Dem non preppers best, how we view them
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mgC2taR9Gk
and Mitt was criticized for gathering food...
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