Frankenstorm

[jerrymrc]

I need to stop reading this crap. They are acting like they are truly dying. My thermostat is set for 60 at night and it takes colder than "30's" to make my furnace kick on and my place has bad windows and was built in 74. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/11/04...erg-warns-gas/

With overnight temperatures sinking into the 30s and hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses still without electricity, New York City officials handed out blankets and urged people to go to temporary warming shelters set up during the day at senior citizen centers.

In a heavily flooded Staten Island neighborhood, Sara Zavala spent the night under two blankets and layers of clothing because the power was out. She had a propane heater but turned it on for only a couple of hours in the morning. She did not want to sleep with it running at night.
"When I woke up, I was like, `It's freezing.' And I thought, `This can't go on too much longer,"' said Zavala, a nursing home admissions coordinator.

"Nights are the worst because you feel like you're outside when you're inside," said Josey, who sleeps under three blankets and wears longjohns under her pajamas. "You shiver yourself to sleep." She added: "It's like we're going back to barbaric times where we had to go find food and clothing and shelter."

I hope the east cost guys will say something to make me understand.

[Aloha_Shooter]

To be fair, 30s by the sea is a big difference from 30s here. Hell, I was colder in DC with temps in the 50s than here with temps in the 30s. It gets worse when you add in ocean "breezes". Yes, some of the people on TV are melodramatic and overstating their case but a lot of people here are understating how bad things are there.

[Great-Kazoo]

I need to stop reading this crap. They are acting like they are truly dying. My thermostat is set for 60 at night and it takes colder than "30's" to make my furnace kick on and my place has bad windows and was built in 74. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/11/04...erg-warns-gas/

I hope the east cost guys will say something to make me understand.

It's a Dry cold
40 here and 40 back east is 2 different things. The humidity lever really sinks in to your bones and hard to shake off. Combine that with say an average of 2-3' standing water you get bone chilling cold even @ 50deg.

With that being said TFB you weak kneed, lightweight east coast mfkrs!!!!!!
You knew this was coming, you knew it was going to be bad. Stocking up on MD20/20 and boro's instead of food, clothing and CONDOMS, to hopefully keep you from reproducing is not my problem. Nor is it the .gov's it is your's. When you take a trip, you do not wait until you run out of gas to fill up, YOU PLAN AHEAD!. The only one who would even venture out to bring you gas is AAA or what ever road side assistance YOU ARE PAYING FOR ,NOT GIVEN FREE OF CHARGE.

Making this even sadder is the majority of folks on SI actually work for a living and not too dependent on .gov assistance.

One more thing (yeah i know surprise) Where my family is located, just happens to be an arfcom member who lives in the area and went to school with my nephew. He and a few others have been prepared and "keeping an eye" on things where the family lives, just because i'm a fellow GUN OWNER!
Once again neighbor Helping Neighbor. as it should be.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK ONE HELL OF A TOWN. EVERY WHERE I LOOK THERE'S DEBRIS FLOATING AROUND. NEW YORK NEWWWW YORK!

[zteknik]

I dunno Jerry,all I can say is there thin skinned.
I guess I was brought up differently.Mom and Pop being from Poland and went through the war and Mom lived in the Warsaw Ghetto as a child we were taught to be prepared.

I remember when I was a kid during the big blackout in NYC,which was in Jully of 77 my Pop was saying just look at how these savages act,they would never make it through any major disaster..

And I also remember how nutty it was when NYC got hit with some major snow storms.But we allways stayed warm,candles and kerrosene heaters,and quilts back then.Never had issues with food,mom pickled and canned everything so we were good.Most our naighbors were from theo old Europe so they did the same and we didn't have to worry about freeloaders

Their a whole different mentality now.Even some of the old school.Guess they got to Americanized and forgot where they came from...

Damn glad we escaped from there...

[jerrymrc]

I dunno Jerry,all I can say is there thin skinned.
I guess I was brought up differently.Mom and Pop being from Poland and went through the war and Mom lived in the Warsaw Ghetto as a child we were taught to be prepared.

I remember when I was a kid during the big blackout in NYC,which was in Jully of 77 my Pop was saying just look at how these savages act,they would never make it through any major disaster..

And I also remember how nutty it was when NYC got hit with some major snow storms.But we allways stayed warm,candles and kerrosene heaters,and quilts back then.Never had issues with food,mom pickled and canned everything so we were good.Most our naighbors were from theo old Europe so they did the same and we didn't have to worry about freeloaders

Their a whole different mentality now.Even some of the old school.Guess they got to Americanized and forgot where they came from...

Damn glad we escaped from there...

I guess that is where some of it in me comes from. My grandmother on my mothers side spoke all of 20 words of English when she died after being here 47 years.

I do understand the moisture aspect of the temp thing since I was raised in Oregon. 2-5 days without was normal and we went 20 days without power or a phone nor the ability to leave for the first 4 days after an ice storm. I guess the thing that I do not understand is they had days knowing this was coming and from the stories did NOTHING.

Even in later years just about everyone I know has a couple of oil lamps for decoration. I kinda understand. My S-I-L that is a member here is from NY. I need to see how his family did.

They are in Japan and very grateful for a few items I had them take when the Tsunami hit.

[Zombie Steve]

They are acting like they are truly dying.

I done run out of aloe terlet paper for wipin' muh Yankeehole®!!!

[SuperiorDG]

I done run out of aloe terlet paper for wipin' muh Yankeehole®!!!

A true prepper would never run out of crack floss

[Zombie Steve]

Yeah, but if it's not aloe, a Yankee might give up the will to carry on.

[HoneyBadger]

A true prepper would never run out of crack floss

Yeah, who here DOESN'T have a few month's worth of TP sitting around? I'd bet most of us have a few phonebooks or some newspaper sitting around too...

[Sawin]

Yeah, who here DOESN'T have a few month's worth of TP sitting around? I'd bet most of us have a few phonebooks or some newspaper sitting around too...

I think I have over a years worth, but I crap at work most days... so i only use a little TP at home on the weekends usually. haha. If I didn't go to work 5 of 7 days per week, i'd have a lot less than I think I do. I guess I should go to costco