infrastructure dependant
I cannot imagine not having enough food to last a couple days.
I feel for the hurricane afflicted but damn, people, buy a couple cans of beans dammit.
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Friday 02 Nov 2012
What? And be a Right-Wing-Hoarder-Terrorist-Prepper-Paranoid-Clinger??
Her Indoors used to bitch when I made her buy noodles and canned tomatoes by the case at Aldi. Used to.
Me and my two kids have been living on canned food, ramen soup, and cooking the defrosting freezer foods on the backyard grill.
Refrigerator contents went into coolers as soon as power was lost.
Didn’t need to do anything special before the hurricane hit us, I always keep a couple of weeks supply of canned & dry goods in the pantry.
Toughest part of the ordeal was the temperature in the house… 50 degrees, but power was restored last night, so we’re good for now and we can wait out the savages at the grocery stores and gas stations for another couple of days.
Looters were another problem. Minor problem, but they are always there.
Glad youre safe don. Stay that way!
I prepped for the storm by NOT stocking up on stuff, and eating the perishables BEFORE the storm.
Because, I’d rather be eating dry cereal and making box mac & cheese on the grill than going hungry AND throwing $100 – $200 worth of rotting food.
I will admit, I was jonesing some eggnog Monday night, but growing up in SE Virginia, I learned what proper hurrican prep is.
Because, I’d rather be eating dry cereal and making box mac & cheese on the grill than going hungry AND throwing $100 – $200 worth of rotting food.
Are you for real? “Stocking up” is not about filling your house with perishable items. And you can do long life milk and eggnog mix, though it’s not anything like the same.
We are all dependant on the infrastructure of our society.
Some folks, however, are too stupid to stock up for and plan for known disruptions.
They are now whining because they are hungry or cold. Their fault.They knew the storm was coming.
In less than a week, the infrastructure will be restored. Those that are hungry and cold right now won’t learn the lesson, and will have the same issues next time.
I see a lot of people that thought “it can’t happen to me”. They need to thank god the storm went inland at 28 mph instead of 2 or 3. I know what its like to have one show up and stay, even a weak storm can produce killer floods when they stop and dump rain for days. And I think I’d rather deal with cold after its over than 90+ with gobs of leftover humidity. Cutting up trees and patching shingles sucks with no way to cool off other than sweating in the shade.
Listening to Hannity rant about it on the radio tonight, I thought back to a passage from a Tavis McGee novel, in which Meyer exposited the notion that, beyond a certain level of population density, people will just go batshit crazy.
And I’m wondering if New York is just Too Big to Fail. [/sarc]
And then, there’s the fact that the watermelon left wants to herd us out of the suburbs and into ever-denser cities.
What’s going on in NYC can happen anywhere, and will — repeatedly — unless we take some lessons from it.
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When Floyd came through Jersey in 99 we were the only ones w a generator, camp stove, lots of food. Gasoline etc. we made coffee for the neighborhood every morning til the power came back on 4 days later and really got to know our neighbors. This time round a couple of them had generators and camp stoves too- they told us as a result of seeing our prep during Floyd. I ain’t that smart but if our former neighbors did ok this time around, that’s a good thing.
5 days lead time to prepare for a 1 week outage. Give me a break.
“And then, there’s the fact that the watermelon left wants to herd us out of the suburbs and into ever-denser cities. ”
Their words for it is Sustainable Developmentâ„¢. See, “Escape from New York” and its sequels weren’t entirely fiction. The end result is in the planning. Damned Malthusian elitists need to have the upper West side taken care of first.
“It can’t happen to me.”
Yeah…I can see folks scoffing at the idea of prepping for the zombie apocalypse or some other fall-of-civilization event. Even I think some preppers go way overboard.
But not being prepared for something like this? I mean, it’s not like this is the first time in living memory that the area has been hit by a hurricane. It’s not like this is the first time the power’s gone out and not come right back on again after a few minutes. Sometimes, as in 2003, it happens with no warning at all and for reasons that become apparent only in light of substantial postmortem investigation. Or sometimes it’s a really bad blizzard (THAT never _ever_ happens in the Northeast!).
Seriously, people. Shit HAPPENS. Some type or another reliably happens to wherever you live EVERY YEAR. Be ready to cope.
I think it was Uncle who mentioned that ‘If you’re ready for the zombies, you’re ready for the storm’, something like that.
Few years back a guy on some gunboard thread mentioned he’d lived in NYEffingC, and it terrified him what was going to happen in a bad storm/attack/whatever: so many of the people, especially apartment-dwellers, had NOTHING in reserve: no food, no water, no anything; they were so used to eating out, or picking up what they planned to cook on the way home, that they kept little or nothing in the pantry.
A few gallons of water, some ‘you can eat it cold’ food and a bucket & some plastic bags would have made a lot of difference for a lot of people.
As a guy who has spent most of his life living near the coast, I have zero sympathy for those who failed to prepare. Especially if you make a decent income. This shit is not hard people.