Yesterdays little snow and ice storm put some one and a quarter million people out of power from Pennsylvania to Maine. Some will be out for several days. There are already reports of fights over gas and other resources.
There is no reason that anyone in the affected area should have been caught with their pants down. This was called a good 48 to 72 hours ahead, but all most of the people did was make the obligatory bread and milk run to the corner store (fat lot of good that did).
It's either the head-in-the-sand it can't happen to me mind set, or they think the government will rush to the rescue. Yea-right...the government...that's the ticket!!
After a couple days in their dark, cold houses eating nothing but take-out from the Chinese place down the block (who had the foresight to have a generator and plenty of gas), or worse, stuck in some refugee shelter in the local high school gym with 2 or 3 hundred other unwashed families, there will be calls for investigations into why the power went out in the first place and why it wasn't back before Desperate Housewives was on!
Meanwhile, the few that were truly prepared are comfortably watching all this unfold on their satellite equipped TVs with a nice cold beer and a fresh bowl of microwave popcorn.
We've been on both sides of this type of situation and we seem to like the second solution best.
How about you???
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