This is going to become a bigger disaster than Katrina, because the lack of food, clean water, electricity and severely hampered transportation will comboine to produce a whopper of an epidemic...especially since another system looks to be coming through in a few days.
My mother has been in the hospital in central NJ for the last 30 or so hours - and hasn’t seen a single cardiologist because none of them can be reached. Luckily, the 23 docs are good, and she should get out tomorrow. She even enjoyed thw warmth and the TV, because there’s none at home.
The only positive here is that this is a big, in-your-face teachable moment. Millions, and not just in the Northeast, will take prepping more seriously and actually store a few days or couple weeks of food and water, plus have more batteries, camp stoves with propane, gas, tarps, blankets, etc. Even Bill O’Reilly was talking earlier today about not relying on the government in an emergency.
“Luckily, the 23 docs are good....”
Uh, ER docs.
Fat fingers and no preview will do that.
“The only positive here is that this is a big, in-your-face teachable moment. Millions, and not just in the Northeast, will take prepping more seriously and actually store a few days or couple weeks of food and water, plus have more batteries, camp stoves with propane, gas, tarps, blankets, etc.”
But I thought that made us terrorist threats per nappy head and Homeland Security. I grew up in the Midwest. I remember losing power multiple times and a grandmother with a root cellar because she grew up without supermarkets. I’ve always had a well stocked pantry before I qualified as a “prepper.”