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I know, personally, at least 2 people who can’t drive their cars because 100+yr trees pancaked them. Can’t really prep for the latter one. One guy’s garage fell on his. Can’t drive anywhere, much less 50m away, when your car isn’t driveable.

Fortunately the only friend i’m really concerned about is the one that lives in the apartment. Everyone else still pretty much has a liveable home. And water pressure and potties that will flush.

It’s pretty tricky to imagine the suburban density up there unless you’ve been there. And tree upon giant tree down in multiples. On every street. For street after street after town after town for miles and miles and miles.

Friend of mine in the burbs sent a picture. His neighborhood was one with 1 or 2 story fairly ‘middle class’ homes for that area. All built in the 30’s or 50’s. With trees that were either planted then or soon after. The pic was heart breaking. Every single tree on one side of the street had fallen. On all the houses on that side of the street. The trees on the other side of the street had all fallen in the street. From just the picture I could count 25 or 30 LARGE trees down.

Just on that one particular street.

I’m not sure how anyone on that street (or the next one or the next one or the next one...) could drive anywhere. Or even for the most part get out of their driveways.

This, btw, was in CENTRAL NJ. nowhere near an evac zone. 25m or so from an evac zone as the crow flies.

There’s probably 100K people in that situation. More likely. They’re not going to be driving anywhere. Even IF they all have chain saws.

The media is largely showing pics of the jersey shore. Because that’s where THEY vacation. The middle class taxpayers in central NJ? Don’t exist. They’re like the middle class taxpayers on the MS Gulf Coast after katrina.

Now, assuming they have sufficient food. And a lot of them do in fact have food in the pantry. And the ability to cook it on a grill or fireplace, ditto boil their water, they will be fine if a bit cold.

But they will, justifiably, be whiny. I think we can let them whine?