What blows me away on this is that they had to know for several days that it was coming!
I would have filled my bathtub and every pot, pan, pitcher, glass and bowl and garbage can with water before the storm. If nothing had happened, I could just pour it all down the drain.
They were told to evacuate and did not. They were told to stock up and did not.
Now they are complaining????
They need cans of stfu delivered, not water.
3 days...sounding like katrina all over again. it ain’t as easy to do as it is to bitch about, is it “brownie”?
Wasn’t there some kind of Executive Order put out by Obama that said that people who stock up on food and other supplies could be suspected of being “belligerents”? And another EO that said the government can confiscate anything a person has, if they consider it to be an emergency?
It’s blurry in my mind, but I remember something about those things. Anybody know more about this?
If being prepared means you’re suspected as a terrorist (and according to the NDAA you can be imprisoned forever with no charges, no trial, and no way for anybody to help you), and if the government can/will take away anything you prepare with anyway..... the government essentially decides who lives and who dies. Has the US government reserved for itself the right and ability to do exactly that?
And this is why I don’t live in the city. Plenty of room here to have dry storage, plenty of wood to fire up the wood stove and for cooking, a lake within walking distance.
I could actually do quite a lot more prepping for a TEOTWAWKI, but a few weeks without power is not a big deal. Not fun, but not deadly.
I have relatives in Virginia near DC. They were not told to evacuate, but on Saturday, they packed up the car and headed westward. They were responsible. They took action. Didn’t wait for government.
The ones crying the loudest about slow relief are the ones who were advised to evacuate, but they chose not to. If you make a bad choice, you live with the consequences. You don’t look to government to bail you out.
Bear in mind that this area had been warned for at least a week that the mega storm was coming so people had ample time to stock up on food. All they had to do was buy a bunch of cans of soup and chili and some crackers and peanut butter. They just did not do it.
Imagine some real disaster like a solar Flare or the New Madrid fault shaking its tail feathers.
So much for the idea of 72 hours of self-sufficiency. This was their Charley. How will they survive their Frances, Ivan, and Jeanne?
NYC big government dependence not quite working out?
the comparisons are so interesting.
makes you wonder what thos ny types did spend all the federal grant money.
Will NY require concret construction or will they rebuild with wood? unreinforced brick?
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.
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.
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?
are now reaping the harvest of failure.
just drove 70 miles here in northern WV mountains to get fuel and supplies. no power, phone, nothing.
there are people under four feet of snow here and no national guard relief of any attempts to send relief.
no help from government or any authority. out.
36 hours and they are bitching about food? Even in the worst days before getting act together, I had 36 hours worth of food. It is sad, but it should be a message to everyone in big cities.
I’m sure they’d appreciate those canned goods the Romney campaign has been collecting.
This always happens even in the most efficient relief operations. You will always be able to find someone who is upset about something.
When it was thought there was going to be an imminent Nuclear Attack, his Neighbors (who thought the guy was crazy for building the Shelter) showed up at his door begging to be let in.
Human nature is well, human nature.