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Oh, give me a break with this! The smugness in your posts makes me want to vomit . You were lucky--not smart. 8 hours downtime? No family, in-laws, or relatives to house/transport, or job to drive to?...yeah, if you live by yourself with your cat and have no relatives on LI, then you were good. And very lucky to have power after 8 hours. Go read your generator manual again. You would've burned through your jugs by Thursday. If you had places you needed to drive to and on top of that you were still with no power, then what? You certainly wouldn't be posting on city-data how you outsmarted everyone else. Please .
So much of this type of attitude going around. I have plenty of refugess staying with me. Glad to see you made it through OK Pequa.
i will say what was a little messed up was that getting gas yesterday the big lit up sign in front of the station still said $3.89 but on the pumps they changed the prices to be $4.29 and had that price posted on the smaller sign on the pump...nice way to show that you're gouging...but i guess i should be happy it wasn't gouged as much as i've heard from other places...
It seems logical now, with the power outages and the extra gas used for generators, but I never heard any warnings ahead of time about filling up on gas. The 'annual storm of a lifetime' is a real recent phenomenon ;-p
It's one of the first things I've always heard you should do, and I absolutely see it on every emergency prep list I've ever seen. How do people think gas pumps run, by magic? How do they think gas gets to an island, by magic? Yes, there is probably only so much gas the average suburbanite can stockpile. But really, many of these people weren't caught awares, we all know damn well they were simply saying "NOT US!" Countless stories of people who went into this with no - zero - supplies. If you gassed up your car and you've been commuting, not much you can do - I don't think anyone is referring to those people.
Bottom line, people did very little prep for this storm. I've heard plenty of stories of people running out of food by Tuesday night and not having flashlights and batteries. It's not just the gas - that's just the most visible problem. It's unfortunate that this badly needed wakeup call had to leave people in such dire conditions.
Glad to see the regulars returning and hopefully no one has too much damage. Everyone can get over a lack of gas and too much cereal!
We filled up both cars Sunday. However, we still have no power and are staying with relatives 40 miles from my house. I burned my gas checking on my elderly aunt who lives on the south shore and doesn't drive and picked my brother up from Queens bcs he had no power or water in the city.
Unfortunately my car has a very small tank but I got gas on Thursday morning in Rocky Point. No wait. My car with the big tank is home in the driveway of my house with no power but I don't want to burn gas going back and forth.
It's one of the first things I've always heard you should do, and I absolutely see it on every emergency prep list I've ever seen. How do people think gas pumps run, by magic? How do they think gas gets to an island, by magic? Yes, there is probably only so much gas the average suburbanite can stockpile. But really, many of these people weren't caught awares, we all know damn well they were simply saying "NOT US!" Countless stories of people who went into this with no - zero - supplies. If you gassed up your car and you've been commuting, not much you can do - I don't think anyone is referring to those people.
Bottom line, people did very little prep for this storm. I've heard plenty of stories of people running out of food by Tuesday night and not having flashlights and batteries. It's not just the gas - that's just the most visible problem. It's unfortunate that this badly needed wakeup call had to leave people in such dire conditions.
Glad to see the regulars returning and hopefully no one has too much damage. Everyone can get over a lack of gas and too much cereal!
Therein lies the problem. Storm prep is not smugness. If a worse storm happens next year, guarantee you'll still find the same problem in the aftermath. The gas is one thing (as I said) - but people with no food and flashlights? That's reasonable? I'm being smug? Guess what I stockpiled last week??? For a storm that wasn't predicted to come within 500 miles of me.
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Therein lies the problem. Storm prep is not smugness. If a worse storm happens next year, guarantee you'll still find the same problem in the aftermath. The gas is one thing (as I said) - but people with no food and flashlights? That's reasonable? I'm being smug? Guess what I stockpiled last week??? For a storm that wasn't predicted to come within 500 miles of me.
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Who are the people with no food and flashlights? Two people interviewed on the news? Where are you getting your info from? I am here and I haven't met one person that had no food or batteries.
Therein lies the problem. Storm prep is not smugness. If a worse storm happens next year, guarantee you'll still find the same problem in the aftermath. The gas is one thing (as I said) - but people with no food and flashlights? That's reasonable? I'm being smug? Guess what I stockpiled last week??? For a storm that wasn't predicted to come within 500 miles of me.
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Here we go again with the CD forum "I'm so smart" people coming out of the woodwork.
"I'm smart, I don't have a big mortgage payment and wasn't affected by the housing bubble!!"
Translation: My parents gave me 20% on a house in 1999.
"I'm financially stable in a southern state!! I'm a financial genius!!"
Translation: I'm collecting a tax payer funded disability pension that is only possible due to the corruption and heavy tax burden of the place I used to live. Those people I thumb my nose at are the reason I can live this way.
Find another hobby.
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. You were lucky--not smart. 8 hours downtime? No family, in-laws, or relatives to house/transport, or job to drive to?...yeah, if you live by yourself with your cat and have no relatives on LI, then you were good. And very lucky to have power after 8 hours. Go read your generator manual again. You would've burned through your jugs by Thursday. If you had places you needed to drive to and on top of that you were still with no power, then what? You certainly wouldn't be posting on city-data how you outsmarted everyone else. Please 
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