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nice edit, I saw the original post insulting all of suffolk county. Let me guess you're still waiting for your MENSA membership card to arrive in the mail.
if that is supposed to be witty or funny it's not.
Epic Fail! (as usual)
I know your buddy SIB already came to your rescue by calling me classy, looks like you're pretty classy yourself
Oh no! You've uncovered our plot to join up against you! Soon we'll be converging on your home with the rest of the heathens and after we charge down the guns we're going to take your plywood and wood pellets!
Oh no! You've uncovered our plot to join up against you! Soon we'll be converging on your home with the rest of the heathens and after we charge down the guns we're going to take your plywood and wood pellets!
Have another Latte while you are coping with making a fool of yourself here.
BTW..using the term "epic fail" is so 2005..haven't your friends told you that at Starbucks yet..oh Ecooo-Chic
BTW editing your goofy posts after I've already quoted them is so 2004.
You bore me to death, its time for me to go do a root canal on someone now, which will be far more entertaining than this.
Your feeble attempt at impressing me that you worked in Massapequa/lived in Eastern Suffolk and COPED with the human disaster on Eastern Long Island...pathetic...I coped with both those days and I can assure you I wasnt comfortably home in my potato field, drinking organic soy while "coping" with the disaster. Poser!!!
LOL.
Exactly. How can someone even compare being on a jammed up parkway with complete strangers in sweltering heat TO being at home in the safety of your neighborhood.
A lack of common sense here. And these people all heading EAST into Suffolk are supposedly from Nassau
You're completely missing the point. Were you in the city for the black-out or 9/11? When faced with a real disaster, people are more inclined to help each other. I'm not saying that the fire in the theater couldn't result in people getting trampled - it happens. But on a big scale when the entire area gets punched in the face - flood, storms, etc. the trample scenario is not what you typically see.
The wall yourself off with ammo and keeping self sufficient supplies is for the zombie movies.
P.S. Most weather experts are predicting an insane Hurricane season with LI mentioned quite often. It's not a stretch to think this whole theory could be tested.
People are only helpful as long as the problem looks to be near the end and supplies are plentiful. Once the water starts drying up, to feed disappears, and the heat or cold kicks in the net mentality goes to hostile.
I don't remember any "huge disaster" that led to people losing "whatever shreds of decency remain". In fact, I believe the worse the disaster has been in history, the more people were giving and helping each other the best they could.
There will always be a dark underbelly and in the event of a true catastrophic event which shuts down roadways, utilities and communications -- people will start to act on their most basic instinct to survive. Mercifully, the scenario the OP laid out is hypothetical.
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You mention black-outs, but I made it home to Eastern LI from Hoboken during the big black-out by ferry, walking over the Brooklyn bridge, and eventually catching a ride in Jamaica. I didn't see any looting and I saw people helping each other the entire way home.
The Black Out of 1977 was out of control with looting and fires. My dad, NYPD was gone for days working this nightmare. A good number of police were injured by looters while trying to contain the situation and instill some semblance of peace. The poorest areas of Bronx and Brooklyn caught the worst of it.
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What huge disasters have you seen people killing each other for supplies?
While I personally haven't seen any disasters where people have killed each other for supplies, but opening the newspaper on any given day we find crimes motivated by greed or poverty. If driven to desperation to obtain food for one's child in the weeks after a catastrophe, my wager is that people would kill.
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