Like Wild West in Hurricane Areas

[lgm270]

Hmmmm...no police protection.   Citizens are stockpiling butcher knives and bats for protection against gang bangers who have FIREARMS! 

 



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2227307/Hurricane-Sandy-Lawlessness-outer-boroughs-New-York-enter-sixth-day-power.html

[Anna]

Yup, Sandy sure caught the liberals with their pants down. And right before a major election smack dagg in the middle of libtardville .
Whodda thunk it ?  Just a coincidence ? Yea right, tell that to the gang banger busting into your house
when all you have is a bat. And he has a gun, when you voted for all those gun grabbers who passed laws that only ended up effecting you. 

[Swift One]

This quite possibly could cause some pro anti-gun folks to switch their thought process.

[powderman]

This quite possibly could cause some pro anti-gun folks to switch their thought process.

 
SWIFT ONE. We can only hope. That is the situastion that hussein, clinton, reid, pelosi, and their supporters envision for America. Defenseless. 
 
LGM. Thanks for the link, I hope the pro hussein obama supporters see that scenario in their own future if their heroes get their way. POWDERMAN. 

[briarpatch]

They will scream for more gun control and will get it. Remember who you are dealing with and their mind set.

[Anna]

The radio just said that the statistics for any murders,rapes,looting, or gang related violence can not be tabulated just yet . But estimates are that it may be in the thousands before its all over.

[Empty Quiver]

This quite possibly could cause some pro anti-gun folks to switch their thought process.

They'll want a gun of their own and will demand you must give yours up. I do believe gun sales will increase when this gets cleaned up. At the same time I believe they will increase efforts to make possesion more difficult.

[m-g Willy]

, tell that to the gang banger busting into your house
when all you have is a bat. And he has a gun, when you voted for all those gun grabbers who passed laws that only ended up effecting you.

But how can a gang banger have a gun???
Their illegal!

[Anna]

Maybe he got it through the Fast and Furious program? 

[Empty Quiver]

As far as all this tanking up is concerned, I don't think there is some sort of grand conspiracy involved. Roughly how many hours, days or months supply do you believe a gas station could store? Hours sir, is the correct answer, especially if the station is being hammered by customers filling the tank to escape the area ahead of a natural disaster. Would you like to be on the hook for a couple hundred transports full of fuel that cannot be delivered due to rising flood waters, police barriers, and closed or flooded customers? Are you quite sure the storage lots where those transports are stored is both secure and dry? Are you quite sure you are insured for such an ecological disaster as well as economical? Myself, I don't like to be refered to as Defendant.
 
The economic reality is that few tank farms sit around full of fuel. I don't know all the reasons behind this reality, no doubt the PTB are behind it somehow . The tanker shipping would necessarily be at sea during a hurricane, stacking up no doubt.  The ports are unable to accept an unlimited supply of oil all at one time, the tankers are bringing a weeks supply of product a week late and trying to unload it into a system designed to handle a couple days supply per day.
 
You do not design a city the size of NYC for the absolute worse case scenario. It is absurd to even attempt to do so. The best that can be done is to design some over capacity into the system, then pray it is not used up before it has been completed. Think about it, the only major US city with the amount of overcapacity you would need is Detroit, Mi., and I'm betting that the vast majority of that is rundown and unable to run at design capacity.
 
People do not like to be reminded they are but a small part of the natural world. A storm of this nature is a bitch slap in the face to those who have done everything within their power to divorce themselves from natural laws. The lattes will soon be ready, Broadway plays will resume, and all will once again be as it was. The populace will be three days from starvation and anarchy, just as it was last week.

[BBF]

They will scream for more gun control and will get it. Remember who you are dealing with and their mind set.

 
 
 I agree and bitch because there aren't more cops out there.

[Spirithawk]

Here in Missouri when a tornados practicly destroyed whole towns in one night people never complained. They just banded together, helped each other best they could and went on with life. Hmmmm wonder what is keeping these folks from doing so? Perhaps the differance between hard working, logical people willing to help themselves and those who think the rest of the world owes them? Then throw in a bunch of candy asses that use a tradgedy to take advantage of others and voila, you have the mess they now have!

[Empty Quiver]

Its simple logistics TM7. You cannot be everywhere at once. The drivers are human beings, they are subject to the same danged laws as everyone, could it be they were ordered to evacuate themselves?  There are only so many transports period. There are only so many roads open period. There are only so many hours in a day period. There are only so many fuel nozzles in the big city period. Whine about those damned capitalists wanting to rape you all you want, what earthly good is it doing them to not have the product to be sold? 
 
Lord man you just went through the worst weather disaster in memory and you expect everything to be up and running tommorow? Who the hell do you think will drive all those trucks? Will the industry simply crap an extra thousand transport trucks? Will the fuel terminals simply spring from the ground overnight?  20,000 gallons sounds like a lot of gas. It aint, sorry to ruin your rant, but it's about three truck loads. That's a thousand cars getting a twenty gallon fillup, a real nice day for many stations, and a fair one for others, a piss in the ocean for a natural disaster fleeing megalopolis. 

Stocking a tank farm with three weeks notice? Where exactly was that inventory to come from? Three weeks from the M.E. ? Three weeks from the Bakkin? Three weeks from the refinery in Xanadoo?  Your mad and crazy. Took a bitch slap from old Mother Nature, she is still in charge. She is laughing at the follies of men.

I don't expect anyone to be happy about the storm and it's aftermath. It's a disaster for cripes sake says so right in the papers. Act of God, think about that a little while.

[Spirithawk]

They're doing that here, too spirithawk....Good to see you back and well.
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EQ....well right. where was the private sector to plan for this mega storm's aftermath_ _regarding fuel.? Where was the government planners, too.  Where are governmnet national tank trucks to augment re-supply when private supply can't or won't respond?  This was a no brainer.  Where was the rpivate fuel monopoly warning there was going to be a big problem,,,bigger than just tank up before the storm?
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..TM7

Thanks TM.