It's heavily overcast and windy outside, but it's not raining yet.
The city is quieter than normal for a Sunday evening. Many stores and restaurants that would normally be open at this time are closed. Yet many are also still open. The restaurants that are open look pretty busy. There was a line of people at Gristedes buying last-minute supplies. Every place is sold out of bottled water; don’t people know that they can just fill an empty bottle with tap water?
Well, you need something to put the water in. We stocked up on containers before Hurricane Irene, so I think we're good.
Posted by: DaveinHackensack | October 28, 2012 at 08:17 PM
You'd better start stockpiling Chinese takeout and Perrier bottles, Sigma. You may also want to pick up a few sawed off shotguns if the power comes out and the lower races start foraging for more "Krims" to feast on.
Posted by: The Undiscovered Jew | October 28, 2012 at 08:18 PM
"Every place is sold out of bottled water; don’t people know that they can just fill an empty bottle with tap water?"
The problem is that the reason you'd need bottled water is because the tap stops functioning (no power in a high rise = no water). In that case you don't need containers to refill - you need water.
Why not buy empty bottles? Where the hell do you find empty bottles? If saving the few dollars is worth the time to find empty bottles you aren't living in Manhattan anyway.
What pissed me off is that they closed my gym at 5:30 today. It's 8:30 and it still isn't even raining.
Posted by: Steve Johnson | October 28, 2012 at 08:32 PM
If a National Guardsman doesn't hand you a bottle of water five minutes after the winds die down, then it is RACISM and the President hates you!
Posted by: Meh | October 28, 2012 at 08:38 PM
Bottled water is selling out fast here in Suffolk County even though there are very few highrise apartment buildings and therefore little risk of losing one's water supply.
Posted by: Peter | October 28, 2012 at 08:59 PM
I hope this storm washes some NAMs away...And negative on the sawed-off shotguns, The Undiscovered Jew. Too much recoil, not enough shells. Stick with a pump-action that has a shorter barrel. Nothing fancy needed to deter/eliminate potential problems.
Posted by: JHP | October 28, 2012 at 09:56 PM
Fill a bathtub with water.
Posted by: John | October 28, 2012 at 10:19 PM
Steve Johnson, implicitly, you fill the containers before the water goes out.
Posted by: DaveinHackensack | October 28, 2012 at 10:23 PM
Jesus Fuck!
How about you store some water at all times for interruptions of civilization? That way you won't be running around like a dumbass when everyone else is and everything is too expensive.
HS won't get a shotgun because those are for proles and status is more important than life.
Steven Harris has many helpful ideas for dealing with power outages. Bonus: he's on the podcast of a high-ish IQ redneck who has lived in areas with variable power for much of his life.
http://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/harris-on-blackout-1
Example advice from him: insulate your refrigerator with extra blankets and sleeping bags to minimize heating of cold food.
Posted by: The Secret of NAM | October 28, 2012 at 11:57 PM
"HS won't get a shotgun because those are for proles and status is more important than life."
Go easy. Plenty of rich people got themselves expensive shotties. The again, pretty much all you're paying for when you grab an expensive shotgun is looks. If anyone wants to show off at the range, they'd better be a good shot first. I've shown up many wealthy folks who have fancy guns with a Stoeger Uplander. Just as effective against birds and pigeons (clay and real) as say Aya shotguns. But the pump action is better against 2 legged problems.
Posted by: JHP | October 29, 2012 at 12:37 AM
OT: Mangan's site is back
Posted by: jwbs | October 29, 2012 at 07:25 AM
"Example advice from him: insulate your refrigerator with extra blankets and sleeping bags to minimize heating of cold food."
Sounds like a fire hazard when power is on or when it kicks back in. Refrigerators are pretty well insulated by themselves, and will stay cold for hours if you don't open them.
Posted by: DaveinHackensack | October 29, 2012 at 07:55 AM
JHP,
HS has stated more than once that guns are for proles. I don't buy into his Marxist classification of people (and am considering some riot gun classes to go with a Remington 1100) and am just playing along.
Posted by: The Secret of NAM | October 29, 2012 at 09:04 AM
My parents are in coastal NC, they barely got a ruffled twig on the trees in the front yard.
Now, the racist tropical depression can be on its way.
Posted by: Camlost | October 29, 2012 at 09:18 AM
The Secret of NAM,
Never read any "gun prole" statement from Half Sigma. Like I said, I've run into some very wealthy people with very expensive shotguns. And then there's expensive rifles like Krieghoff. Nobody puts those in the rack of their pickup next to a Mossberg.
And speaking of Mossberg, have you tried a Mossberg shottie yet? Might want to.
PS, stay away from the tactical look when it comes to boomsticks and hand cannons...
Posted by: JHP | October 29, 2012 at 12:25 PM
HS needs to visit the H&H showroom (it's on 40th st) if he thinks guns are only for proles.
Posted by: bluto | October 29, 2012 at 01:19 PM
Imagine being in or adjacent to da hood during a natural disaster. Morningside Heights is a nice neighborhood, but there's a good chance that spillover crime from nearby Harlem would affect you. This is why you need to live somewhere that's at least 5 miles away from da hood and preferably up on a hill. But in most larger cities in the US, it's hard to live far away from a hood, as cities have become checkerboards of good and bad neighborhoods.
Posted by: Drole Prole | October 29, 2012 at 01:30 PM
"HS needs to visit the H&H showroom (it's on 40th st) if he thinks guns are only for proles."
And the Beretta store on Madison.
Posted by: JHP | October 29, 2012 at 02:00 PM
DaveinHackensack,
The link addresses your concerns. You don't insulate the radiator/radiating side of the fridge if you're running it. But I doubt it would cause a fire.
JHP,
http://www.halfsigma.com/2007/04/dumb_white_peop.html
Discusses gun ownership correlating with low-IQ whites and not with being a Jew.
http://www.halfsigma.com/2008/08/sarah-palin-the-next-harriet-miers.html
Refers to hunting as high-prole.
I've read more explicit stuff from him, but get too many hits when I google "prole OR redneck gun site:www.halfsigma.com" and don't want to keep looking.
[HS: Any observed correlation between guns and social class are OBSERVATIONS of how people behave.]
Posted by: The Secret of NAM | October 29, 2012 at 04:11 PM
There should be some great looting stories and pics after this one.
Posted by: Camlost | October 29, 2012 at 04:55 PM
http://gardenandgun.com/
I think some of us have different definitions of prole, although I tend to find the G&G crowd a little pretentious.
Posted by: S_McCoy | October 29, 2012 at 06:45 PM
[HS: Any observed correlation between guns and social class are OBSERVATIONS of how people behave.]
Agreed. But I don't understand why you or anyone puts so much stock in the GSS. So some sociologists generate some numbers: big deal ...
What I have observed is that you want to fit in with people higher in your mental hierarchy than you are and that they find guns icky and that you know their opinions. So you may have a secret blog about NAMs, but you eschew outward "proleness" (although this is only if I accept the whole story of this blog, i.e. that you are not a total fiction.)
Posted by: The Secret of NAM | October 29, 2012 at 09:53 PM
"HS won't get a shotgun because those are for proles and status is more important than life."
It's disasters like this that help us realize our common humanity and lead us to stop and think about the really important things in life, i.e, social status and career climbing.
Good work, Sigma.
Posted by: The Undiscovered Jew | October 31, 2012 at 09:13 AM