re: They say you need to be prepared to be "on your own" for 72 hrs after a bad hurricane hits

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Walmart sells cans of chunky beef stew for like a dollar a can.

Mac and cheese in a cannfor a buck.

Easy to heat up to. Leave the metal can on the hot fricking concrete and in a few hours bon appetite.

$20 and you can eat for two weeks if need be.

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Exactly. I realize this isn’t ideal eating, but the amount of people in areas that fared fine damage wise acting like they’re literally starving to death is comical.

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I will add baby formula as a necessity. That could be life or death situation either for the kid or the parent

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this is really the only thing that i will excuse but damn it...evac

and i dont want to hear about poor people and not being able too. These are the same people that were told growing up to pay attention in school if they didnt want to grow up and be poor. They made their decisions and need to learn to live with it. frick em.

I hate to be like that but its bullshite, people need to learn to help themselves. Its not that hard or expensive to fill up a bunch of gallon jugs with drinking water from the sink before a storm. not that hard to freeze gallon jugs before hand to keep the freezer cold longer.

not that expensive to get canned goods. 99% of people have some type of grill at home, not that hard or expensive to stock up on charcoal or propane.

i dont want to hear about not having money for a generator while they walk around with a 1000 dollar iphone and have a 55" tv hanging in the living room. we all make choices in life and you have to learn will dealing with incorrect ones.

as far as gas...not that hard to get 15-20 gallons ahead of time and the generator really only needs to be running at night and honestly really only has to be running the fridge and electronics and a fan.

i dont wanna hear about no ac. A) get over it. B) should have prepared and bought a stand alone one or a window unit.

people need to learn, after cleaning everything up, to sit their fat asses on the back porch or balcony in a rocking chair and read a damn book or to play catch with their kids or other easy things to pass the time.

this isnt the end of the world. People did the same shite after laura and pissed me off. just grill and cook everything out the freezer and fricking chill.

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I even saw one post where a guy said retail stores should have their "licenses revoked" if they don't have a generator to operate and are back running 24 hours after a storm passed.

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I wonder if he would volunteer to go work at said store????

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and I bet they have plenty of food, just not the right kind

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I guarantee you at least 50% of the people I just saw in the 20-car line at McDonalds (and the people who were standing outside of Canes at 9:30 waiting for it to open) have food. I'm slightly more understanding now that we are 3 days out and people might just want normalcy away from canned tuna and crackers, but only slightly.

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99% of people have some type of grill at home

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This is what I said too. Again, this far out I'm more understanding since ice melts and is hard to find right now.. But sorry there shouldn't have been the insanity at FF restaurants there was less than 24 hours out from the storm. You don't have anything in your freezer you could throw on the grill? That's absurd.

All I know is when the end of times come, I'm much more ready to survive than I thought if this is what I'm competing with.

I'll be out of gas for the generator some time today, only running a fridge, freezer, and a box fan (plus phone chargers when needed)

So far it runs for 2 hours in the morning when we wake up and then 4 hours before we get close to bed. Haven't had power since Sunday about 7pm.

So far eating a lot of PB&J, chips, and cooking out the freezer on the stove (gas) or grill.

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There was looting happening Monday morning

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That was people that normally loot whether they have power, water, money, or not.