Damn Noreaster after Sandy

Damn...Nothing like getting kicked when your down...Got some nice new wet snow...The trees are sagging...Really cold and many people still without power or a place to stray...A lot of the work has come to a stand still...Sux...

If they have family and or friends in other reachable parts of the country they should head there until things are more secure...a good run is better then a bad stand........

In 2008 when we lost power for 8 days in December and the temp was 13 degrees and I didn't yet have my set up I have now, I loaded up anyone who wanted to go and we headed for North Carolina. Just the warmth of the car heat felt awsome. As we headed further south and things were normal getting a hotel was a shear joy by comparrison to back home in New Hampshire. While I was gone I had 3500$ worth of burst pipes I didn't care. I have insurance. They fixed it before I got back..whose you're daddy!

Well, some of us are more blessed with material things than others. I'd bet there were many who couldn't leave or had no where else to go.

+1

You got that right...This was a real wake up call...For everyone....

Isthatanisland?

One always has somewhere else to go. You just go. It isn't always about being blessed materially. We use to be a nation of effort and initiative.

Perhaps that may be one of the draw backs of living in the city compared to living in the country. I'm not knocking either choice. I'm thinking, speculating mostly that when one lives in the city one may become acustomed to thinking that the city has everything under control. Where as in the country you become mostly self sufficent?

Once I started a family I always felt the city was not the place to be in a disaster although cities had more employment opportunites then the country. And in some cases familes have and for generations laid their roots in a particular city. It may be uncomfortable for some to leave those familiarities.

I generally don't like people so the country and its pseudo seclusion has always been a welcomed and easy choice for me. I have never had any attachment to any particular location either.

Just announced, NYC and Lhun Gisland are on Odd/Even gas rationing starting tomorrow morning. Just like Joisey. Also, since I am in need of a replacement vehicle, there is now an extreme shortage of used cars here on the Island since so many were destroyed during the flooding and other things (like trees). Dealers also were wiped out in the flooded areas. So the prices have sky rocketed for used cars here! Just f n great. Looks like I may have to travel to a western state to find something reasonable. Or even Floreeda.

Need a car...Just take a ride down Route 22 in NJ just off the GSP...Plenty of cars...

Hope you laid in a good supply of ceegars & beer. Have you been able to go for a ride or at least a walk and scope out the area?

Saw the damage day one...Not joy riding yet with this odd/even gas situation and gas is still not that plentiful...Need all my gas for commuting...About 45 miles each way...I do not even know which back roads are open yet...It will take time to clean up this mess and get their chit back together...Got plenty of beer and one cigar left...I tend to smoke in the Summer...Wife lucked out the other day...Followed a gas tanker off 78 (our exit)to a gas station we go to and was full in 20 minutes...She also had some dork cut in front of her at the last minute, flip her off but she said nothing as his truck was diesel and this station does not have diesel...Ain't payback a bitch? She had a good laugh...