Saturday, August 27, 2011

evacuate

EVACUATION!!


I’m sitting around on Friday the 26th and thanking Baby Jesus himself, thank you Baby Jesus for this favor, I’m sorry I brought domestic beer to our last meeting, that tomorrow is a weekend when every dillhole in America is blathering on about how they honor all the fallen victims of 9/11 and how America kicks ass and how we must salute Obammy and turn in our neighbor to Homeland Security for unlicensed lemonade sales and blah, blah humpity blah blah about the tenth year anniversary. This way I can hide safely out at the compound and not be subjected to bullspit. Hey, I love America. The American that had a Constitution ( you know, the one with a Bill Of Rights ), that respected private property and one that only meddled in one hemisphere. All you jerkbags celebrating this Fascist American Welfare State can suckle on my wrinkled testicles. I’m not insensitive to the innocents that were killed in the internally planted explosives in the Twin Towers. I just refuse to worship them as martyrs to our police state. They were unknowing victims to it. Anyway, I’d better get off that subject and move on to another event that happens this weekend- Hurricane Irene ( you’ll notice I bumped my other articles to post this the very next day- hopefully most of you will be without power and not read this since I’m sure I’ll get most of the details wrong )

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Ah, a hurricane. A big hurricane. Just what is needed to get everyone to forget that little embarrassment of panic over a minor earthquake. The state of New Jersey, apparently unaware that it already was a bit of a laughingstock, issued a statement along the lines that if you were foolish enough to NOT evacuate, they would really appreciate it if you filled out an index card, name and Social Security ( did anyone mention to them that the official propaganda is that the SS number isn’t actually a National ID? ) and put it in your left shoe. Because, first of all, a wave powerful enough to move your body about wasn’t going to knock off a shoe, and secondly, your body presumably needed to be identified by police in a neighboring state ( because even though most hurricanes aren’t enough to knock off big hundred mile chunks of shoreline, New Jersey isn’t taking any chances of acting foolish like Bush did with Katrina ). Good gravy, if I didn’t know any better I’d assume the state wants to lose credibility and have people stay home. Then Jersey can move all the unwanted population out of state, kind of like Cuba and the boat lift, claiming they were all residents of neighborhoods that were told to leave and didn’t, hence they were now criminals ( unpropertied vagrants )and unable to be residents. Then the new, razed coastline can be sold at much higher prices to Wall Street money guys, the state gets better property tax revenues, the desperate urban poor are confined to the inner city ghettoes, the desperate middle class pukes are cast away, and the Peoples Republic Of New Jersey shall live happily ever after.

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I’m not sure why anyone would want to evacuate. As long as you aren’t living in a mobile home on the beach, can’t you ride things out in your basement? Bugging out with one hundred times the traffic the roads were designed for, fighting for non existent gasoline at depleted stations, looking for a hotel room that no longer exists. Trying to find a restaurant that hasn’t used its last number ten can of chipped cow bung, the semi’s not being able to get through to resupply. In other words, a giant one hundred million person, entire coastline cluster hump. To go out is the cure being worse than the disease. Please remember what happened, to a much smaller degree, in the Florida hurricanes. Look at Texas the last time a hurricane warning panicked the population. It simply is not viable to have any amount of residents fleeing. There isn’t the infrastructure for it. Our infrastructure in place is to ship in corn based food slop and electricity to the cubical drones, ship out refuse, and everyone stays within a few miles of their sheetrock shanties. There are just too many people packed in to a craphole on earth. Where are they going to go? How do they all get there at the same time? How will they get supplies if the roads are gridlocked? If this hurricane is as severe as they are saying, and if you survive it, you might want to reevaluate your bug out plans, as you will see how impossible this all becomes. Having a survivable location you can stay put at is one thing, trying to relocate quite another. I hope this proves a lesson. Katrina proved the government doesn’t care if you live ( and in fact will try to kill you ). Irene might prove how crowded the east coast is, and hence not the greatest place to live in Oil Down and Die-Off.

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If this sucker hits big, you can expect New Orleans times a hundred. Cities never rebuilt, piles of refuse left for a decade. Insurance companies going belly up and screwing all policy holders ( even out of area ). Hell, in good economic times your auto insurance company can just close up shop and you are left without recourse getting back your pre-paid premium for future months. I’ve had that happen to me, so I have no problem believing if billions are at stake, the companies weasel out somehow. That should make an interesting derivatives in the financial market impact ( remember AIG? ). You Yankees have fun on this one.

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7 comments:

Anonymous said...

I agree there is a lot of stupidity in the evacuation orders. I think it is a way to avoid lawsuits. If you stay and get hurt, don't blame us- you weren't supposed to be there.

This is expected to be a Category 1 hurricane- it may even lose steam and end up a tropical storm by the time it gets north of D.C. Serious, but nothing like Katrina. Storm surges of perhaps 11 feet or so? If your home is 20 feet above high tide and have an actual foundation under your home, board up your windows and ride it out with food, water, and all of your possessions near by. Hunker down and keep a cool head.

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Anonymous said...

I'm up here in the north east and I'm ready for some fun.

Got my 40oz beer bottles refilled with freash clean tap water.

My LED flashlights are freashly charged along with the shortwave radio.

Bags of beans n rice sealed up in plastic buckets.

Hope this storm is strong enough to wash away this place away and If not then I guess it's back to my shitty job on Monday.

Anonymous said...

I've been through several hurricanes and doubt I would try the basement because of flooding. Most homes in hurricane zones don't have basements anyhow, because of the high water table. Mobile homes are ok, as long as they are tied down pretty good, and no trees close by. I rode 1 out in a car, and on a ship for one. Only major thing I stock up on is more BEER. I already have all the other stuff I need to get by on.

blindshooter said...

I'm in eastern NC, Irene was big but not so bad. They just turned the power back on and lo and behold I have high speed internet! This one can't compare to the ones we had in the late 90's, I will have to get up downed trees and fix a buttload of shingles and some drywall/paint but all in all this one won't so bad. I do like watching the Yankee's freak out, they get nor-easters that are worse than this.

Spud said...

YAWN !!

MSM hype

The bigger news is that I went to Sams yesterday.
Bought pinto beans which were $18 six months ago.
Todays price $31 bucks !!!!
Now that is something to panic about
Move along now nothing to report about here....

Zack Pedrick said...

Sorry for the long comment...

It wasn't the state of NJ that made the statement about the index card and SS number; it was Cape May County Emergency Management Director Frank McCall. And I'm pretty sure it was just his way of using a bit of humor to get the point across. I have to agree with what you say about NJ. However, we're not all like that. I'd love to see the state divide north and south (Camden and up become the south).

As far as the evacuation goes, there ARE a lot of mobile homes down here. Those who do have normal homes aren't very high above sea level, plus there are thousands of beach-front homes. Also we have coastal evacuation routes that change all inbound lanes along the designated evacuation routes into outbound lanes (great planning). So while there was a heavy traffic load, it wasn't as bad as you'd imagine. People were being directed by the police to gas stations to help balance the load on those stations. But that’s one reason why I keep my vehicle at a half tank or more. Everything was done in an orderly fashion without too much panic and it was done early enough so that no one who wanted to leave was left behind.

Another thing to keep in mind, I am starting to think it's the norm for people to subscribe to the "It hasn't happened yet, so it won’t happen" school of thought. We haven't had a storm this big in a long, long time, before I was born. Even though many people warned of a long overdue 'Hundred-year storm', not many people believed it could happen, simply because it had not happened in their lifetime. Granted this wasn't exactly a hundred-year storm, but it was pretty damn close. Also, most of the people in the evacuated areas were tourists who paid good money for home/hotel reservations. They didn’t WANT to leave nor would they know how to handle a storm like this since they don’t get storms of that magnitude in their home town. Those who live there year-round (not many compared to the "in-season" population) know what to do and I'd like to think most are prepared.

I think the tourists were the main reason for the evacuation. Second would have been the potential storm surges.
You should have seen some of the idiots, one lady who the news interviewed actually asked "Do I have to evacuate too? I don't live here I'm just visiting for the week?" So while you might not have had access to the news and information we had, you did your best with what you had. I respect that and I'm not offended at all. You might have gotten some facts wrong and made judgment where it needn't be, but this is YOUR blog, and that's why I love it. You do drive home a very good point though. Hopefully the recent natural events got at least a few people's attention. Thanks for all you do, I really enjoy reading the blog.