Northeast Storm Warning: Guns

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medalguy

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Having lived along the Gulf Coast for many years, I can tell you with some experience that if you are in the way of this storm, and you are considering evacuating, be sure you take precautions with your firearms and ammunition. Most people take their pets and important papers, but lots of them forget their guns or ammunition. If you think you might be in a flood-prone area, take your guns with you. If salt water inundates your home, you will return to a mess.

Also, if you evacuate, keep in mind that most shelters will not allow firearms inside, and if you leave them in your vehicle or truck, they will very likely be stolen. Prepare for the worst and hope for the best. Record serial numbers and keep that separate from the guns. But take every precaution to safeguard your guns as well as your family.
 
Some of this might be easier said than done, then if marshal law.............

Good luck NJ.

Have fun with your gun laws now, now it's bad guy with guns, and you have a rubber band. Get out your kitchen knives and start sharping wooden stick's.

FYI, it's easy to make a bow and arrow. LOL
 
I was just talking to my sister out on Long Island and they have no guns.

I asked what means of defense they have in the house in case gang bangers show up at the front door asking for supplies, and her answer was "a phone."
 
I'm all the way over into Ohio, . . . but will be going out in a short for gasoline, diesel, kerosene, lamp oil, etc. . . . and when I get back, . . . this early evening will probably be dedicated to making sure my BOB stuff is ready JIC.

Preparations that result in a "non event" are sometimes frustrating, . . . but the "event" that has no preparations is far, far worse.

Our prayers go out for all in the zone, . . . get packed up, prayed up, and keep looking up.

May God bless,
Dwight
 
I'm holed up in VA today. All day coverage of Sandy. Fox 5 just showed the Wal-Mart in Centerville. Fox focused on a mostly empty ammo cabinet.
I don't know what runs through peoples minds, just my own.
My neighbors have told me their disaster plan is to just to come over to my house. I'm okay with that - the doors are open.
My heart goes out to the (hopefully zero) people that aren't going to be okay.
 
I have family in Long Island and upstate New York. Everyone is hunkering down.

I'm afraid that many people are going to discover that there is no substitute for elevation. Electricity we can without for weeks, but the destructive power of water is too often underestimated.

God bless and hope everyone comes out safely.
 
What the heck, my son works at that Wal-Mart! Worst is almost upon us here in Northern Virginia. Obviously, we still have power, but tens of thousands have already lost it.
 
I'm afraid that many people are going to discover that there is no substitute for elevation. Electricity we can without for weeks, but the destructive power of water is too often underestimated.
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Do they get that kind of flooding there? I know the gulf floods bad. East coast of FL we don't get a lot of flooding. The barrier island gets it, and I'm barely a mile from the Intracoastal, and get no flooding whatsoever in a category 3.

I agree 100% on the electricity. Not a big deal. Like camping.
 
I live in Northern Virginia. Went to work yesterday (Chantilly) and again today. The good thing was, traffic was light, both yesterday and today. There have been worse storms but it has been raining for two days now. No problems here, except the banks were closed yesterday and my dental appointment was cancelled.

Another place I worked here, in Alexandria (Four Mile Run area) had a flood around 1975, Hurricane Agnes, I think it was. A foot of water in the plant. It took a week before everything was back to normal but it was not the first flood they had had. The computer was in an elevated room.
 
Blue Train

Thanks for the update. keep it up, personal observatons are sometimes better then what the media reports.

Stay safe.
 
Don't go overboard. My observations are limited to what I see or have seen, not what was happening on the other side of the hill. Besides, it was dark all night long and I slept through most of it. I'll leave standing on the beach and making up to the minute reports to the pros.

Having a tree fall on your house is a disaster but I think most fell that were going to when we had the last big storm.
 
Will there be a huge relocation of residents of NY to more sensible places, like there was from New Orleans, after Katrina?
Will there be a mass awakening to the folly of living in such close quarters, with little avenue of escape and without the basics of survival and defense available?
 
Having lived in NYC for several years, I can honestly say that this will change nothing. Those people will continue to live like bees in a beehive.

Save a pandemic, there is little chance that NYC will change. Storms come and go but the city endures, I'm not sure why, because with today's communication system people don't have to live like that. The only explanation I can find is that they like it.
 
NJ\NY isn't New Orleans. "Gangbangers" and looting will be next to zero. People will concentrate on keeping warm, not standing guard with a shotgun.
 
People live in the cities because that's where the jobs are and many cities are located next to a lot of water because that's where the ships come and go. And people rob banks because that's where the money is!
 
Watched a Red Cross spokesman talk about a survival package and listed a great many items which would be most helpful. At the end of the presentation I twittered the Fox Host and added an additional item for the list. 12 gauge pump shotgun with Ammo.

No response from the host.
 
I have family in New York and New Jersey. Luckly everyone made it through the storm intact and without flooding. Calls can't get through, but managed to get a few text messages. The sheer scale of destruction is beginning to become evident.

I am keenly aware that in about 48 hours things could start to get ugly. Without the tunnels working feeding Manhattan is going to be a problem. People will begin migrating outward.

The elderly living in higher floors without water and electricity are at most risk. Many can't manage the stairs because of age, health, etc.... Those that depend on insulin and other drugs, the absence of refrigeration could be deadly.

New Jersey is like a pipeline that keeps food and goods flowing to NYC and Long Island. With that pipeline broken problem with logistics of food and fuel will move to the forefront.

I'm hopeful that calm will prevail and neighbors will help neighbors and goodwill among men will prevail. I am also hopeful that violence will be limited to isolated episodes.
 
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Eppie,

Glad everyone is okay.

I am keenly aware that in about 48 hours things could start to get ugly. Without the tunnels working feeding Manhattan is going to be a problem. People will begin migrating outward.
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New Jersey is like a pipeline that keeps food and goods flowing to NYC and Long Island. With that pipeline broken problem with logistics of food and fuel will move to the forefront.
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Your so right.

It used to be that NYC and Long Island could survive about 72hrs without food/supplies being trucked in.
Always made me wonder why they didn't/don't have easy trucking routes into both these places. :mad:

I'm sure there will be a supply route established in short order.

And I would be willing to bet there will be a fair amount of looting going on as well. Both in Jersey and NY.
 
Too bad the storm came through. I'm ok but unfortunately lost all of my guns to flooding. Who knows where they are, probably hundreds of miles offshore at the bottom of the ocean.

:D

That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

It was that or an "unfortunate" boating accident!

Kidding of course ;)
 
Talking with a friend of mine who said that a police agency (the one he works for) in New York ended up losing one of its offices.

The building, and about 100 rifles and other weapons, were in safes. They're now all somewhere at the bottom of New York harbor.
 
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