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A Real Man doing what needs to be done for others in New York Blizzard

This begs the question… “what would you do if some knocked on you door in a snowstorm seeking shelter?”
I had someone seek shelter from flooding during Ida. I allowed him him only after eyeing him up real good and having a knife on me. He never came between me and my wife and stayed in the garage. I only allowed him in the house to use the bathroom. I waited for him at the door with my dogs and had my wife wait in the garage.
After i felt bad i had to feel that way but i don’t trust most people.
 
mikep said:
This begs the question… “what would you do if some knocked on you door in a snowstorm seeking shelter?”
I had someone seek shelter from flooding during Ida. I allowed him him only after eyeing him up real good and having a knife on me. He never came between me and my wife and stayed in the garage. I only allowed him in the house to use the bathroom. I waited for him at the door with my dogs and had my wife wait in the garage.
After i felt bad i had to feel that way but i don’t trust most people.
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I am probably 50/50 which bothers me but it is unfortunately life in 2022. Children or Elderly would be a yes others get a maybe.
 
I grew up in Upstate NY and went through many of these storms the biggest being the Blizzard of '77. This storm dropped 48" of snow; the Blizzard in '77 dropped up to 100" in areas of NY State over a period of 6 days with 40-60 mile an hour winds. NEWS FLASH it snows in NY State. It does it every year. They have lake effect snow coming off Lake Ontario and Nor'Easterners every year. NYers are used to this and get plenty of advanced warning so they can stock up on beer and cigarettes and shelter in. That being said, everytime they have one of these big storms they lose 30-40 people in Buffalo. Granted, some have medical emergencies and can't make it to the hospital but they also have a large number that freeze to death in their snowbound cars trying to get to god knows where. It is so ridiculess, what is so important that you need to get in your car and risk your life to drive somewhere in a friggin blizzard. I was a volunteer fireman in a rural town. We took our snowmobiles and checked on all the people in the outlaying areas. A few needed to be evacuated due to losing their heat and not having a supplemental wood stove or fireplace and we had large tow behind covered sleds for that purpose. Then we kept in touch and ferried any supplies they needed and then helped them dig out afterwards. we lost 3 people in the county, 2 heart attacks and 1 stroke. It happens often, to the people in the rural areas its no big deal, they were prepared for it. I'm from a family of 6 kids. We always had canned goods in the pantry, meat in the freezer and a cord of firewood in the shed. If the electric went out, you fired up the wood stove and take the meat from the freezer and stick it in a snowbank and take out the Coleman camping stove, no big deal.. Then you shelter in and open your home to any hapless chap that happened to be stupid enough to not heed the warnings.
 
Good for him, well done. The thing that tends to confuse me is how do they end up in the situation, well I basically know how, just not why they ignore warnings.

With modern weather forecasting there is usually, not always but usually, several days warning of bad weather. Maybe the severity cold be a surprise but this storm was pretty well known by the time it reached the east. I remember my wife and I discussing if we were going to cancel haircuts.

I suppose work probably explains most. We stayed out in some pretty gnarly weather occasionally when I drove bus. Sad situation.

As for what I would do if someone knocked on door. Hard to say, but at worst I have the snow globe with reclining deck furniture, heaters, and blankets. They would not freeze to death.
 
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