The Last Act of a 4-Year Long Kabuki Theatre Performance?

Cries for more government help? Check.
Absence of any signs of self preparation, preservation, or reliance? Check.
Allegations that "the rich" are to blame for where the "common man" is? Check.
Sample interview to make federal government look good? Check.
Discussion of how evil Romney is, and how this is all his fault? No. RE-WRITE! WE MISSED ONE!

Well, if it's any consolation to the folks on Staten Island....the New York City Marathon is OFF....canceled.

Contrast the response from FEMA and other govt agencies with the response by Walmart, Home Depot etc. They had trucks ready to roll as soon as the storm subsided. The govt should contract out emergency response. Not only would it be much faster BUT it would also be cheaper-even if they paid retail PLUS a premium. Even though the provate sector would probably make obscene profits it would still cost less that when the govt does it. AND IT WOULD GET DONE>

Horny Toad says it all. Fire up the trucks, pay retail and let me be the first to say that Home Depot and Wally World would straighten it out. Toss Caterpillar in there and we're almost done.

You think FEMA's bad just wait until the big earthquake happens here in BC. We had the largest earthquake in 60 years last weekend and it turns out the BC emergency response agency takes weekends off. Not a joke.

They "tweeted" about the tsunami warning several hours later well after one would have struck. The plan to improve the situation is to "investigate". I look forward to reading the report in a few years but in the meantime I will continue to stockpile supplies.

Obama's no more to blame for this than GW Bush was for Katrina. heh.

The old saying,"what goes around comes around", is apropos here.

Posted by: james at November 3, 2012 12:49 PM
Were you up North?
I slept though it in Powell River.
(Vodka miked with Codine, is dangerous, but my collarbone is broken and dislocated, so...)

No Flood to report, but the breakwater is 500 M from my door.

Ferrys are running, tug boats are tugging down from Alaska life is normal here on the Georgia Strait.
Where are you?

Dale

"The Last Act of a 4-Year Long Kabuki Theatre Performance?"

I hope, but I'm not as optimistic as I wish I could be. I'm curious to know what others think ("think," not "feel").

I'd like to help but like most other people in the nation but they already took our "extra money" and gave it to Africa, India & China.

Maybe they should ask for some of it back.

C'mon, it's BUSH'S FAULT!

I hate to tell you, Horny Toad and Patsplace, but this is the Big Crapple that we're talking about. Do you not yet understand who would get those contracts? And how well-prepared they would be to fulfill them? Or do you think that Chicago is unique in such things?

This sort of "news" is heart-breaking but tells us little about the overall post-Sandy picture.

I'm just as sure you could have set up cameras in the Bronx and would have locals complaining that the Red Cross sent all its trucks to Staten Island and Mayor Bloomberg is ignoring us...

1. Before the clip that included having no power, I got a commercial for the chevy volt. LOL
2. The clip mentioned MANDITORY evacuation order.
3. For all of the people who vote for parties that promise more and bigger government, watch this over and over. Government can not and will not protect you or care for you. Stable countries and socities are ones with a strong sense of self reliance and voluntarily helping others, not those that walk around with their hands out.

That community is pretty beat up.

And they are mad a being left behind. I don't blame them.

I saw that the local authorities were quite clear in their message before the storm hit. They pleaded with everyone in low lying areas to evacuate and consider the danger to themselves and the rescuers that would have to come search for them. I don't want to place blame on the victims, but they should have known what was coming and protected themselves accordingly.

President Obama hates white people. Kenya West will be on tv saying this very soon.

Mark Matis is correct. Contracts let in New York would go to connected Democrat donors and the mob. It took them 20 years to build the Cross Westchester Expressway for exactly this reason.

Rudy Giuliani showed conclusively that the single greatest problem in New York is corruption. The Broken Windows policy cleaned up, in less than four years mind you, an intractable and endemic crime problem that had plagued NYC since the 1960's. Cops were not arresting criminals, plain and simple.

Bloomberg is working steadily on getting corruption back to the levels that his class enjoyed prior to Giuliani's eight years of @ss kicking. That effort is showing up in your face right now with this "recovery" effort. Rich connected people get fuel, power and city fire/police/ambulance services immediately, everybody else can pretty much go pound salt.

People are noticing that the City of New York had generators available for the now-cancelled NY Marathon, but there are no generators available to power the pumps at gas stations and fuel terminals. Fuel is there in huge abundance but it is not moving.

If FEMA were even faintly competent there would be a big fat rented generator at every single gas station and grocery store in the affected areas that wasn't flooded. There would be truck lanes cleared and food, fuel and basic survival materials would be moving to retail outlets instead of sitting in traffic jams.

Instead, NO provision has been made to get food, fuel etc. from neighboring states or even neighboring counties. Friends tell me Dutchess and Putnam counties north of the city have ZERO shortages and no lines either. What they do have are individuals stealing gas from their cars in their driveways however.

No statute exists suspending union contracts and union rules for the duration of an emergency. No such statute has even been proposed in the legislatures of NY and NJ. Out of state contractors are going home already, fully disgusted. Almost a million people still don't have power, guys are driving back to Florida with their utility trucks.

Everyone with two functioning brain cells to rub together knows this was inevitable in New York. The corruption and graft are legendary. EVERYBODY knows. It happens every time there's a snow storm.

Not coincidentally, New York has the largest net loss of population in the United States. Both the city and the state. I see on Drudge that firearms and ammunition sales are increasing steeply over their already record high levels.

New York is the central hub and birthplace of the liberalism that is killing it today. They have voted DemocRat since the 1930's. They voted for rich scumbag Bloomberg after eight years of Giuliani saving their @sses from the Dinkins catastrophe.

Barry -could- have managed this. He could have kicked some fat @sses at FEMA and got those gas stations up and running. He could have called Bloomberg up and told him to cancel the Marathon. He could have called up the head of the electrician's union and told that guy he'd find a horse head in his bed if any non-union crews were told to go home. But no. All he did was pose for some pictures with Christie and give a couple speeches, then fly off to Vegas.

Election is Tuesday. I predict that Obama and the DemocRats generally are not going to do well in their home base of the East Coast. Its just too obvious that the scammers and the fat cats are taking all the money people paid for the illusion that government was going to take care of them.

Even New York liberals may be given pause by this. Hunger can be a pretty powerful thing.

Obambam had a golden opportunity to prove he could lead (when the 3 am phone call came), and he tossed it to campaign. If he had shut his campaign down for the duration he would have gained ar more than going out and running off at the mouth, actions speak louder than talk!!!

there are RV companies that are owned by Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway in Indiana and Michigan.

There are rows of finished RV's that could be moving out as temporary shelter.

Nothing is moving.

I live a few miles from them.

Where is Warren Buffet on this?

If it were me I would have gotten off my ass and started cleaning up my yard, fixing up my house and not waiting for help.

The last act may well be Obama telling his supporters to vote for revenge.

Seriously.

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/265727-romney-rips-obama-on-voting-is-the-best-revenge-remark

Seems to me the MSM did not become interested until Fox News started showing Staten Island's dilemma.

Same Old; Same Old; especially in NYC. Once the Publisher's associate's have not or are not any longer inconvenienced then bring the plight of the ordinary citizen into the picture.

I recognize the validity of self reliance, but what is the personal situation of the older lady who lost her home? Children living a long distance away; Widowed? family cannot get to the location because of restricted travel or economic limitations?

Lets recognize the United States is now also a "structural class" society. However they may still may still be able to stave off the European effect once again.

Benjamin Franklin warned about the future potential loss of individual rights;

Andrew Jackson foiled the European Bankers monetary coup with definancing New York City banking elites;

Calvin Coolidge dampened Wilson's Global elitism until F.D.R. prolonged the Great Depression through intervention;

Hopefully Romney will be able to prevent a prolonging of the Great Recession.

If not I thing the "Great Experiment" will suffer a reduction in the number of States who are willing to participate. Cheers;

Posted by: The Phantom at November 3, 2012 2:36 PM

Well said, Phantom, I have nothing more to add.

Easily avoided tragedy. Simple planning?...

Or killing the Unions once and for all. A Fight I have been Fighting for the last 10 YEARS of my life.

Good for nothing super-entitled pricks, all of them.

Dale

But...but...Bloomberg is making sure NY residents live long and healthy lives...by regulating their salt and sugar intake.

Even if a good number of people had a stockpile of supplies with a generator and fuel, they would be out numbered by those that didn't and don't.

Unfortunately, the entitlement mode really kicks in when facing an uncomfortable future or a slow death from whatever, and seeing those with more because they prepared...you get the picture.

AS for being armed to defend...that's ok if you are the only one armed...but down there...even playing field...no...uneven, more desperate people with guns those who are prepared.

My wife's niece had her house, from what I am told, is basically chopped in half from a tree falling on it. It is now unlivable.

Densely populated area, hit by a massive storm, gov't agencies can only do so much, even if they really have crap together, sheer numbers always over whelm.

They are lucky it wasn't a CAT 2 and above.

Posted by: The Glengarrian at November 3, 2012 3:57 PM

Yea that's going to help :) LOL

Maybe feed starving people sugar drinks to make them forget that they have no meat on their tables.

Makes sense in Left land.

I have never regretted moving away from NYC, towed a trailer across a Continent to escape.

Another story for another day............

Dale

Read something about Sandy's destruction possibly being used as a reason to postpone voting and the election so that areas currently w/o power can vote. Will be interesting to see what takes place.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/11/02/nys-board-of-elections-its-possible-voting-may-be-permitted-beyond-tuesday/

via drudge

What lady Thatcher said in 1977 if fully applicable and valid for the current pull toward socialism.

For some period, up to now, socialistas are winning because there are enough of those that want other people pay for their stuff.
Politicians could not be happier to provide the set up.

Even the Rosehip Alberta party at times wonders off into socialist territory and eventually will succumb to the siren song of gimmi crowd.

Ha,

this should be two posts up.

Sorry, don't know how it happened.

Thinking it could be me.

I agree, fiddle. This is ET's fault.

Black Mamba

I don't know if we can blaim ET, cuz maybe Romney started that storm, would we not then blaim him?????

BTW...has the USDA OK'd the dumpster diving food?
Wouldn't want anybody exposed to any sort of pathogen...

Call me old fashioned, but I like the idea of people fending for themselves.

Posted by: Woodporter at November 3, 2012 10:03 PM

Thank you.
5 days into a Pacific Cyclone, another 10 days of food in my pantry, a 3000 Watt Gen set a short drive away.
Set.

Dale

Pssssssst...Dale...be mindful not to have to much light in your home with the generator running.
'Tis a beacon to those without in the darkness and they are attracted to the light just like moths. A low profile is a good thing by times...however...if ya really want to p*ss people off...turn on a Christmas light display :)

For those in the know. I've been contemplating putting in one of those natural gas generators (fairly expensive)...but supposedly seamless when the electricity goes out. Is this a good idea? Does natural gas still keep flowing if the power is totally out (Sandy scenario or Eastern Ontario Ice storm scenario).

I'd greatly appreciate feedback.

Favill...being hooked up to a natural gas line and having the generator kick in seamlessly when power goes out is the cadillac of ideas.
Usually there is no interuption of natural gas delivery by pipeline...however...lets say the disaster du jour is an earthquake...then it could be shutoff if a line or main ruptures.
I don't know where you live and if an earthquake is a real threat.
Some dairy producers in this neck of the woods have installed large diesel generators that come on automatically to ensure milk stays cooled and the ladies can be milked and fed on schedule.
I hope this helps...

Favill, if you live in an area not subject to earthquakes, then the natural gas generator is a good idea. I've been looking into one myself but have to do the calculations to see if I can totally generate my own electricity and not have BC Hydro have knowledge of my power consumption.

One of the events it would be wise to prepare for is another Carington event which means having some very good shielding around the generator as well as good physical grounds everywhere. Ideally, ones whole house should be in a Faraday cage, but this is prohibitively expensive.

The nice thing about a natural gas powered generator is that if the natural gas supply is cut off for any reason, one can attach propane cylinders to the generator. Stockpiling these as they seem to handle being outside in 100+ F heat a lot better than my gasoline containers.

Thanks for the input Loki and Glengarrian. Earthquake devastation is not likely where I live.

Yes..a backup plan to the backup plan is always a good idea with fuel storage. The reason why diesel generators are popular with agriculture is we have diesel (a reserve) on farm for use in tractors, etc. Alot of us aren't lucky enough to have a natural gas line to be hooked to.
I read on another blog about a fellow kinda sitting pretty in Sandy's destruction because he already had a small diesel generator hooked up to his house and in a pinch he was using the furnace oil from his home heating tank to run it.
It seems there is still hope for man as a species to survive.