New Yorkers Hovering over Powerstrips like "Refuges Around a Campfire"

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NEW YORK The people gathered around the side of a building on Third Avenue looked like refugees huddled around a campfire. But instead of crackling flames, their warmth came from more advanced technology: a power strip that had been offered to charge cellphones.
It was a sign of just how desperate for electricity some New Yorkers have become since Superstorm Sandy darkened parts of the city.


http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57543458/new-yorks-subways-return-to-service-for-1st-time-since-superstorm-sandy/
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/11/the_city_that_never_sleeps_cop.html


At luxury hotels and drugstores and Starbucks shops that bubbled back to life, people clustered around outlets and electrical strips, desperate to recharge their phones.

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-10-31/business-highlights

[AuH20]

The coming collapse is going to be wondrous to witness.

[tod evans]

The coming collapse is going to be wondrous to witness.

I won't be able to see it from way back here in the sticks, no electricity here just means cooking deer tenderloin over a fire and reading books by candlelight..

Maybe I'll get to read about it afterwards.



p.s.
Maybe this is why there's so many damn deer the last decade or so?

[specsaregood]

p.s.
Maybe this is why there's so many damn deer the last decade or so?
we have a herd of 20+ that wander our surburban streets, completely unworried as its not legal to hunt them in the city limits. they'll just completely fill up our street and stare at you and dare you to do something about it. when the shtf, those guys will be on dinner plates, quickly.

[tod evans]

we have a herd of 20+ that wander our surburban streets, completely unworried as its not legal to hunt them in the city limits. they'll just completely fill up our street and stare at you and dare you to do something about it. when the shtf, those guys will be on dinner plates, quickly.

If you've got friends or family back in the sticks I'd firm up plans to get there..

If SHTF suburbia will be primary battlegrounds for those leaving cities.

[AuH20]

If you've got friends or family back in the sticks I'd firm up plans to get there..

If SHTF suburbia will be primary battlegrounds for those leaving cities.

The suburbs will have to be defended with extreme prejudice. I'm talking about putting gang member's heads on pikes, medieval style. And I'm not joking.

[tod evans]

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to AuH20 again.