Quote Originally Posted by HoneyBadger View Post
Heard on the Radio this morning (Bob and Tom Show... 98.1fm in C-Springs) that most of Manhattan was just told to stay there because all the bridges and tunnels were closed. More than a million people were litterally trapped in Manhattan. In a situation lasting more than just a few days, hundreds of thousands of people could have died from exposure or eventually lack of food/water or theft/looting. Good reason not to live on an island with millions of other people...
Humans are a bit more resilient than that. Genocide kills hundreds of thousands. Major plagues kill hundreds of thousands. Hurricanes combined with Nor'Easters do not kill hundreds of thousands - although it might make for good radio.

When I lived in Manhattan, even the tiniest of studio apartments had a closet. A weeks worth of food/water doesn't take up all that much space to store for just this kind of event. As for those that didn't live in Manhattan but merely commuted there for work and may have been stuck there - head uptown, the entire island isn't located down at The Battery. Then again, even people in Colorado knew 24 hours ahead of time when the tunnels/bridges/subways in NYC were going to be shut down so a bit of preplanning goes a long ways toward getting off of anything South of Canal Street.