[2001 ZTS]

Exactly.

The lesson is build a city in a swamp in a hurricane zone you better have a couple day worth of water and food.

Now..............

Who here, as people who live in a place were it can easily get so cold that one could die in minutes, could be without electricity for weeks (as in 1999 ice storm)?

I can.

Think about it, could you?

Your answer had better not be: "it's OK the government will set up a shelter". A shelter is the worse place for you (and your family if applicable): "Lets put all the weak and sick people together in one place". BAD IDEA as we have seen.

That will be the biggest lesson of all of this. It is so easy to be prepared and costs next to nothing.

Not the first time I've posted this link:

http://www.ocipep.gc.ca/info_pro/self_help_ad/fam_e.asp

The more people that absorb that sort of stuff the less rapes there will be at evac centres, people dying in the streets, looting of stores and basically dying out of stupidity and ignorance.

When the s**t goes down as it very well may at any time in any form from weather to terror you at the end of the day will be on your own for a long time.