So, let's talk about American's that can't exist on their own for 3 fucking days.
 

3 days and people are upset about no food and long gas lines. Way to be prepared. Who the fuck doesn't have at least a week or more worth of food on hand even without prior notice of a major storm coming? Who doesn't have candles, books and blankets to ride out a power outage?

And people make fun of preppers.

Exasperation builds on Day 3 in storm-stricken NYC …

http://news.yahoo.com/exasperation-b...202314418.html


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Crazy to not be well prepared. There was so much warning for this storm too.

"What's the government going to do for me?" "waa waa waa"


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America gone soft big time apparently

My local grocery store has 18oz cans of Campbell's soup 3 for $5 Water in 24 packs for next to nothing ….. Is there a car even made that doesn't get 250 miles to a full tank?

especially since the news was warning of the storm costing billions in damage (predicted) at the end of the week before it came. i saw that on the news on thursday before the storm and it said exactly where it would hit and that it would be early the next week no later than halloween. at that point you have no excuse to either get out or get prepared if you weren't before.

I probably have three months worth of food and I'm not even trying.

I have 6 bottles of wine, job done

I have three cans of something on the shelf. I would be dead already.

Yet everyone laughs at preppers. Go figure.

You can bet there is at least one group of people NOT going hungry, NOT going without water, and probably NOT going without power. Everyone else can kick rocks. People are idiots, and natural disasters show this time and time again.

i know it is bad, but come on, crying like a small bitches ... :Oh crap there is more outside of your city crybabies

THAT is how stupid people are. There is a thing called "normalcy bias" that is the physiological reasoning for this.

These are the same idiots who have to be recused from their roof top after they had several days notice to evacuate their home. The "it will never happen" people. Lots of them posting here.

My pantry that houses our food stash is about half the size of my old Manhattan apartment.

I can see NYers in the City, who basically live outside of their living spaces not being prepared.

Fill containers, sinks, bathtub with water. Spend $50 bucks for canned food, crackers, extra water and you can last at least 2 weeks. Who can't do that?

How do you preppers make your supplies hurricane and water surge proof even when your house gets wiped off the map? :1orglaugh

The people who got their houses wiped off the map were smart enough to evacuate or are dead. That's a very small percentage. My point was who the fuck doesn't have a weeks worth of supplies at home storm or no storm? You?

I hoard food :Oh crap

Weed and liquor too ???.. I hope.

No drinking for me. It's impossible for me to hoard weed. The more I have the more I smoke, I tried smoke a fatty on my fire escape during Sandy, didn't work. :Oh crap

You don't. You evacuate when you're told to evacuate and take as much of your supplies with you as you can. A well planned prepper already has a back-up location for something like this and is aware of all possible situations that could affect his area.

As the economy slowly but inexorably degrades, the infrastructure decays, and shortages and natural disasters become more common, more and more people will practice emergency preparedness.

Right now it's not a cultural value. It's just a step or two above hoarding in most people's minds.

Thats why shows on it work. "Look at those funny preppers".

Of course, most of those preppers are goatfuck nuts. Thats why the shows have any popularity at all. It's a way to point at the wierdos and feel morally superior. A show about reasonable emergency preparedness wouldn't sell many advertisements.

We've spent the last 20 years building a "just in time" economy and culture. And claiming we were immune from shortages, because of american exceptionalism.

What a shock that in the cities people actually practice the just in time culture.

They were told to get out , if they would have gotten out they would have power somewhere else , food, shelter etc..

Guess the race

L-Pink I was directly effect by this shit storm.

The next time I see your sorry ass I am gonna hug you...extremely hard...and ask you and maybe whisper in you ear "why can't you handle this" .....

i blame the tubes

Yes, my old sl 600 v12. That was so bad.

Adapt or drown.

The problem with modern society is that natural selection is unable to run its course.

This is decades in the making.

The vast majority of us don't garden or hunt and depend purely on the system.

i am not prepared at all times...i don't eat canned, pre packaged food for the most part so my food supply isn't more than a few days worth, more or less. i suppose i should keep some on hand but since i don't actually eat the stuff, i guess i would have to constantly rotate it every 6 months or so and throw out the old. my lazy, cheap ass doesn't want to do that for a once in 10 years disaster scenario. i'll probably pay for it sooner or later but if i knew something was coming, i would definitely stock up, assuming i had enough warning.

You'd think after Katrina people would have realized you can't depend on the government after a disaster. And to evacuate when told to do so!

so i wanted to troll this message

http://media24.podbean.com/pb/141372...ayPreppers.jpg

Why not just buy a couple of kilos of rice, multivitamins, water purification tablets?
Those will be OK for years...

At this point America is nothing more than a herd of spoiled princesses and moronic pussified men.

It's unsustainable.

There's a lot of truth in that.

not only america, in france too...

Living in South Florida for many decades and being through many hurricanes I've come to won a a generator along with along with enough fuel for a few weeks. I also have a one room A/C that runs off of the generator.

My house has storm shutters over every opening. In addition to having four 5 gallon bottles of drinking water I fill 250 gallon water bladder for things like flushing toilets and washing stuff, like myself.

A few days before the storm hits I stock up on food, fill my cars up with gas, fill the water bladder and put up all the storm shutters.

I bought a house close enough to the beach to that I'm five minutes but far enough away and on high enough ground that my house won't flood in a storm surge.

After the storm hits I'm on generator power with plenty of food, watching TV via DirecTV, taking hot showers, working using either my normal internet connection or using cell phone tethering, cooking and pretty much going about live as normal.

The biggest issue is keeping all the idiots away that didn't prepare for the storm and now want to stay with me using up my supplies.

What is directv?

amount of deaths caused from eating canned foods 0

guess what will kill you faster than eating canned food? STARVING TO DEATH! and from what i've read that is about the worst way to die imaginable. Your hippy shit will not save you from anything ever...


Nobody is laughing at people who prepare for things like this, it is recommended by our governments even to have such supplies in case of natural disasters such as these. Where people are calling you guys crazy is when you stock up on more ammo than food. I'm no where near anti gun but if my neighbour had more ammo than food, i would be moving before any storm/disaster hit--because someone like that is a psychotic killer waiting for the first excuse to murder someone.

Satellite TV.

I had cable TV a few hurricanes ago but it took them weeks, once it took two months, to get the cable working again so I went to DirecTV which is received via a satellite dish.

i do laugh at preppers that do it because of 2012 or some weird revolution coming or whatever else paranoid reason they can come up with.

but not being prepared when there were so many warnings before this storm is plain stupid.

It's going to get real ugly there if power isn't restored soon.

Ah ok, thanks.

I have two dogs.... tasttttttyyyyyyy dogs

you are lazy and cheap but don't have more then a few days worth of food on hand? something doesn't make sense here

Seriously...Your all a bunch of assholes....How about if it was you? SO many people lost there homes. Insurance especially with floods will not cover most peoples costs. The people who have stayed most likely haven't brushed there teeth, showered,in days. In many cases the shelters lost power. You have old people your caring for at times its impossible to leave. There is a bunch of old people. We pay taxes all our lives and emergencies happen and they expect there gov to be there for them. WHat's wrong with that? Were all products of our of where we live. In fl everyone has storm shutters and is prepared. We don't get these type of storms up here. People should have a bit more empathy rather than hating on everyone. If it was you or your family you wouldn't be laughing!!

I am prepared.

I lived through the 1989 Loma Prieta where we had no power for four days, and more recently a propane train tanker accident that cause the evacuation of my town here.

We always keep food well stocked in the house, lots of canned goods and bottled water. My wife thinks I'm nuts. I also always keep the cars with at least half a tank of gas, and we have some gas stored in containers - We had a gas shortage in Phoenix one year and I am so not going to go without gas.

We also keep emergency packs in the garage in case we need to leave. Our hometown was under mandatory evacuation not too long ago because of a propane tanker train fire. We were just outside of the evacuation area, but all our friends in town were given twenty minutes to leave. So I learned a few lessons from that.

People that have houses close enough to the water are not generally poor are they? Shit happens. Except when it's you, then it's a bitch. They need to suck it up a little. Everybody's doing all they can for them. If they don't get something as fast as they like, then they have to wait. Complaining in a disaster is like pissing into the wind. I've lived through 20 hurricanes, people helped us out. Smart ones thanked them and didn't complain.

Nobody is hating. Do you think the government is supposed to be "Johnny on the spot" with hot cocoa and a warm towel? There is a lot of people fucked over, there is enormous efforts by government and citizens to get everyone taken care of. It don't happen 15 minutes after the storm is over. So you got hit with a disaster, shit happens.

We will be getting more of these, I'll check this thread after the next one to see if these super preppers had a chance to show us how to beat nature :1orglaugh