What I really don't get with people whom live in these storm ravaged areas that seem to get hit every year, often multiple times is firstly, why the hell they are there in the first place, and secondly, being their choice, why so few are really prepared?
It may have been something I read on rocket boys site about his lister where he spoke of demanding neighbors wanting his power after another storm took the grid out but had no generators of their own. In such circumstances I would not at all be charitable.
They will probably look at people like Rocket and Cujet sitting round with the lights on, watching TV eating a hot meal and talk of them like they are privileged and express resentment towards them. The fact they could be in the same position themselves will be lost on them or ignored and they will blame someone else for not being as "lucky" or well off.
They sure as hell wouldn't want to come bitching and whingeing and expecting my help that would be for sure.
If you can't be bothered to look after yourself, you sure as shit would not want to come asking me to look after you.
I love the freedom of Florida. I moved here in 1983, sick and tired of the utter lack of freedom in CT and NY. The beaurocratic restrictions, the "you can't do that" attitude and so on. At 19 years old, I was working for a company testing outboard racing engines and a race car company that did some development for Ford. Both businesses were being actively attacked by local bureaucrats. To say they were "anti" industrial business was an understatement. If you were not "white collar" you were "pushed out". Even today, Connecticut is littered with closed factories.
I visited Daytona Beach for vacation and fell in love. People were driving dune buggies on the beach, flying airplanes all over the state! People shot guns in the local sand pit, People had loud side exhausts on their pickup trucks, people rode dirt bikes with tags miles into the woods for a day's fun exploring. People were not charged personal property tax, state income tax, emissions and vehicle testing, $20,000 real estate taxes and people could actually afford a nice place to live.
It was the opposite of Connecticut, where you had 2 recreational choices. Sailing a sailboat in the sometimes filthy Long Island Sound, or Golf. Anybody that loves motorsports found Connecticut utterly restrictive. Not to mention stunningly unaffordable.
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University epitomized the "Florida Freedom" thing. Tuition back then was an absolute bargain, and opportunity was everywhere.
I don't know where you live, but it sounds really nice. Want a new neighbor?