How does he do with tidal waves?
Best escape is to bend over and kiss your ass goodbye....
An EMP will knock out the boat engines and navigation controls.
Everybody row!
Makes me want to watch “I am Legend” again. :)
They need to bring in Snake Pliskin.
Well, let’s look at previous disasters that befell the NYC area to use that as a crystal ball to predict the future...
Airspace closure - nope, you’re not taking a helicopter off the island unless you’re a public official.
Pier closures - Oh, right, if you’re not taking one of the authorized public ferries, you’re not leaving by water.
Subway closures - Nope, not getting out that way.
Bridge closures - Yep, those are closed too, they might be targets, so you just hunker down where we told you to, right in the middle of the target zone.
Smart businessman who hopefully has his own plan B for shielding all his assets when the SHTF and he can’t deliver any of the promised services that people have been paying him to provide for years. (and anyone care to bet that there’s a rider on the contract that specifically excludes providing services in the event of terrorism, riots or disasters?)
"HEY! That boat is MINE!!!!"
(ker-lick)....."I don't think so....."
Short of owning or otherwise having a helicopter at your disposal and a helipad on the roof, I don’t see how a boat service is going to be of much use to anyone not on the immediate waterfront if SHTF time rolls around again in Manhattan. Maybe passenger blimps need to make a comeback, lol. There’s some guy in Massachusetts selling personal mini-blimps but they’re really not all that compact, with a rigid frame so that’s not a possibility.
Ted Kennedy would have just swum across the river(s).
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When the SHTF, living in NYC will be like the movie WWZ.............
Fear the Walking Dead Ping.
This reminds me of a documentary I saw about the fall of Saigon. When the SHTF, Americans and selected Vietnamese were supposed to hop on special buses and go to the airport for evacuation.
It never occurred to anyone that the roads are impassable once the SHTF.
Two words:
Jet Pack
Oh, that’s easy: he extends an invite to the families of new people to get them out. That way there’ll be an earlybird window of opportunity.
In a major SHTF disaster, motorized travel of any variety will be unreliable at best. Between gov restrictions on airspace, roads, and piers, and crazed mobs assaulting anything they think will get them out, this Plan B service sounds iffy. It’s probably going to be Shank’s Mare, or if you’re in a very tall building close to the river you might be able to arrange a cannon-fired zipline to at least get across the water. Other than that, I dunno. Maybe Doc Savage’s old pneumatic tubes to get to the waterfront, but they supposedly went to the harbor side, not the river, which won’t help much.
“news people”
When was it when much of the NE had a power blackout? I live in S.E. Michigan, north of Detroit and it took me over four hours to drive the 17 miles from work to home. When the street lights are out, you have major gridlock.
That was really spooky, After everyone eventually arrived home, it was like everyone disappeared from the face of the earth. The 8 lane highway by my house was dark from no lights and not one vehicle driving on it..........
Perhaps the best way to leave Manhattan would be by walking or bicycling across a bridge....and keep on going. Bridges not passable? Swim or go to a Church and pray for eternal salvation.
I work in mid-town Manhattan and sadly I have no game-plan for SHTF. No secret tunnel off this island and I don’t rate a helicopter, boat or blimp. What I guess I could do is run 40 flights of stairs down to the ground level (if the elevators aren’t working) and grab a six-pack of beer at the Duane Reade. I’ll then stagger up to Central Park and see how it all ends. If I don’t run out of cellphone battery, I’ll post a photo or two here.