Something About Hurricane Sandy

I recently saw someone from Houston write (on a Gun List)  --  "N.Y. asking Houston (space city) for help.  Send us back our Space Shuttle and we'll send you some help.".

Some folks thought that terribly funny.  I thought it terribly sad.  People dead, many more will die.  Towns, neighborhoods, destroyed  --  staunchly Republican areas just about wiped out  --  but the HATRED of both N.Y. and the Northeast so embedded that any sort of compassion and empathy has flown away.

I spent most of my life in N.Y.C., Queens, and Bayville Long Island, N.Y..  What most folks do not understand about N.Y.C is that it's a far better place to live than to visit.  If you live there you understand it's a collection of neighborhoods.  People tend to break stuff down to "human size"  --  so that, after a while of going to the same neighborhood businesses, it's like living in a town, while at the same time, it's easy to go to another "town" a dozen or so blocks away.  That's what folks who are residents experience.

Natural disasters destroy that sense of community.

Many of the parts of Long Island, New Jersey, and the rest of the area attacked by Sandy, are very middle class.  Many are basically rather conservative.  The town of Bayville, on the Long Island North Shore is VERY middle class  --  a lot of cops and firemen live there.  It's basically the first affordable Long Island Sound beach community as you head east from N.Y.C.  It's truly a small town  --  two roads in, two roads out   --  it's part of a sandspit that forms the northern boundary of Oyster Bay.  It has all the positive and negative aspects every small town has.

So, those folks in Houston, and all the others who think N.Y. "got what it deserved".  Take your shuttle and stick it where ever you want.

What do you want us to say when your next disaster strikes?  There's an old N.Y.C saying that just might be appropriate   ---   it could be "what goes around, comes around", but one N.Y. version is, "fuck you, you fucking fucks".  At least in N.Y. you can't both SEE and TASTE the "air" like you can in Houston.